It had been a very wet and windy night. When we woke up the power was off. After brekky we went over to the house to book in for a couple more nights as we are loving it so much here. Dave told us that a tree had probably come down on a power line and that the power was due back on around lunch time. On the way back to the camper van we went to say hi to our gorgeous animal friends. After this we had a drive out to the Pemberton area about 30 kilometres away. The road there wound it's way through the huge trees of the karri forest and the road was littered with branches and debris from the trees. We had to go slow in places as the road was like an obstacle course. We got to Pemberton safely and went to have a look at the Gloucester Tree which is one of three climbing trees in the area. It had stopped raining now but the wind was still blowing and the big trees were swaying in the heavy breeze. The tree is used as a fire lookout and rises 61 metres into the sky. I had come here back in November and had climbed a short way up before my fear of heights had got the better of me. When we got there we saw some brave people climbing the tree and we both looked up at the ladder rungs spiralling round the tree to a cabin at the top which was at a very dizzying height. Today both Jay and I climbed just a few rungs and we both felt sick and dizzy looking down from here. I felt funny and had to make a dash to the loo!!! After this we did some food shopping at the Pemberton IGA, where we actually managed to get some bread that had neither sugar or vegetable oil in it, and then we went to have a look at Beedelup Falls a few kilometres away. This is where the Beedelup Brook flows for 100 metres over steep granite rocks. I came here last November but it was very different today. The water was flowing faster and everywhere was very green and lush. We had a brilliant walk down to the falls, along the boardwalks and across a tiny suspension bridge that swayed wonderfully as we walked over it. We just got back to the camper van in time without getting drenched by a big shower. We had some lunch and then we went to see another huge climbing tree, the Dave Evans Bicentennial Tree. This was a short drive down the road in the Warren National Park. This tree was even taller than the Gloucester Tree towering above us to a scary 75 metres. It was raining and the wind was up when we got there and the tree was swaying with it's cabin looking like a pendulum. We took cover in a shelter nearby and when the rain eased we took some photos of us climbing up the rungs as high as we could, which wasn't that far, getting up to only the 6th rung at the most! The rungs were spread further apart on this tree and looking down from only the 6th rung was terrifying! As we were congratulating ourselves on how brave we had been we got talking to a German girl called Jana who asked us whether we had climbed to the top. We admitted that we hadn't. She told us that she would like to climb it. As she was on her own and there was no one else here we said that we would watch her climb and take some photos for her. She was absolutely fearless and started climbing soon getting to a rest balcony at 25 metres. She waved to us from here and then wound her way up like spider woman to the cabin high up in the tree canopy, a dizzying height. We could barely look as we were terrified for her! She was soon though in the cabin and waving down to us. The cabin was still swaying like a pendulum and our hearts were in our mouths. She then made her way down to much applause from us at the bottom. By this time another couple had arrived who we had got talking to. They were called George and Marion and they were lovely to talk to. George was originally from Germany and Marion was originally from Scotland. They were in their seventies and had been in Australia about fifty years. We talked to them and to Jana for ages. George and Marion were on a camping trip and were looking for somewhere to stay tonight. We told them that it was completely wonderful where we were at Aroundtu-It and it was agreed that they would follow us there. Just as we were driving into Northcliffe we saw that a tree had come down across the road. It must have fallen whilst we were out. Luckily we could get around it and we were soon back with all our animal friends. We did our daily rounds and saw Nugget, the kangaroos and the alpacas. Sam the dog was about too and following us around. Bomber was out of his enclosure in front of the house and he looked over to us with a worried look on his face! We did our best to assure him that we would leave him alone. We had another chat with George and Marion who were now setting up their tent before getting our tea and chilling for the evening.