As we said farewell to Walpole, we headed North West. Tara's dad mentioned a massive tree that could be climbed... The Gloucester Tree! As we pulled into the National Park, Tristan was very eager to climb the massive tree, Tara was not so keen. As we walked up to the tree, it was only a series of 16mm deformed concreting bars that were jammed in a spiral around a tree. A little bit of pig wire fencing was stuck to the outside of the tree for so called 'protectio...

As we passed through the massive Karri and Tinglewood forests we finally arrived in Walpole a small forestry town which is home of the giant tinglewood tree and the Valley of the Giants...Tristan was pretty excited! As we pulled up to Coalmine Bay, we figured it was a little early to check in so it was time to do a little bit of exploring but not too much... (Judy gets a bit nervous when we go off road!) The knoll was a stunning outcrop of coastline protected by ...

As we left Albany we knew it wasn't too far to Walpole... our next destination. We decided to take our time getting there and stop in Denmark, the rain had subsided afterall. Yay for the sun! Denmark is a quaint little town, much like Sassafrass or Healesville... Lots of little quirky and interesting stores. We went into the surf shop to have a look and were greeted by the friendliest person we had met the whole trip... we didnt catch his name but he was a real ...

As we left Hyden...the skies were YET again closing in on us. As we trudged through the NEVERending wheatfields of the 'Great Southern Wheatbelt' we were hit with severe head winds which constantly battered Larry and Judy. The weather was relentless! On we forged continuously being sprayed with mist from the huge tyres on the roadtrains carting the precious grains from each of the bins. Eventually we were surrounded by the massive Stirling Ranges which were blank...

As we trecked through the endless fields of wheat and equally as many wheat bins and grain storage areas we were continuously battered with a 100km/h head wind. Lets just say Larry and his fuel economy were not impressed. A fuel tank that usually took us close to 500kms now only carried us 300km. We knew the wind and pounding rain was relentless but this really proved it. On we pushed through the horrendous weather and then Judy started to get caught up in the mo...