We camped for three nights at Pemberton Forest, There was a nominal fee of $5 per person to the forestry, no facilities apart from camp fire areas and a long drop pit toilet.
This was a really beautiful place to stay and made a good base to explore the forest. We had a bit of rain but not too much.
This is the entrance to the camp area.
This is where we camped.
Our friendly local kookaburra, who woke us up in the morning.
This is me trying to catch up on the blog.
The area was an arboretum, it was planted by the early settlers to establish which plants would survive in the area, now a lot of Karri trees but many other species as well.
This is Big Brook Dam is a local source of water.
The van is this picture shows the perspective of the size of the trees.
The Gloucester Tree is a fire watch tree. The viewing platform is 61m above ground and is accessed by climbing metal spikes that have been hammered into the tree to provide footholds. I did not go very far up they say it moves up to 3m at the top in the wind.
The viewing platform at the top.
The Bibbulmun track is a walkway for hikers than runs for 950km. We came across quite regularly on our travels.
Some local birds.
The road through the forest that covered most of the sights. There was one area we could not enter because of the previous nights rain and they recommended 4 WD only.
Another big karri tree.
The Dave Evans bicentennial tree is another fire watch tree one of three in the forest. this has a watch platform half way up as well as at the top.
Beedelup Falls has a circular walk which involves crossing the river via a suspension bridge.
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