Perth 2010 - Day 05 Pemberton to Albany

Dear YY n NN n DD

Today's itinenary
- Travel from Pemberton to Albany

It was really a freezing morning! Temperature dropped to 7 degrees!
YY, you were immobilised with cold.
Haha. Papa had to carry you from the cottage into the car....
Before we left this beautiful cottage, NN and DD, you 2 fed the colorful birds one last time. It was really a wonderful experience here.

The Gloucester Tree
This was to be our last stop in Pemberton.
The Gloucester Tree was tall. Really tall. 61m high.
There were steel rails anchored all around the tree that acted as ladders for those who dare to brave the climb up to the platform 61m above. San Shu was one of them.
We could only posed for the camera at the first 5 to 8 steps. Haha.
Many tame and colorful birds here too.

At Pemberton

Valley of the Giants
At Wadpole, we finally got to see what it was like on the top of the trees. Earlier, San Shu had shown us the photos he took on top of the Gloucester Tree. We stopped at Valley of the Giants, Tree Top Walk. It was a suspended bridge to the top of the trees. The highest point from the ground was 41m. High enough for DD to keep clinging onto Papa.
NN, even the usual daring you also hesitated to take the next steps and insisted to hold hands.
YY, only you were daring enuff to run at this height.
The next stop was the Ancient Empire Walk, full of living trees with big gaping holes, a result of lightning strikes.

Green's Pools and Elephant Rocks
Our final 2 stops before we reached Albany.
Great sea view at these 2 places, but we missed one of our scheduled stops, Pentland Alpaca Stud Animal Farm & Wildlife Park. :(

At Wadpole

Albany at night
Reached Albany around 4pm. It was really a very quiet town. Not much cars on the road too. Shops were closing and we had to rush to the Visitor Centre to book our accomodation. Home tonight was Emu Point Cabin at Emu Point. It was a cold cold night again.


Hugs & Kisses
Mummy