DSC_0242.JPG=Walpole, Western Australia. A fallen Tingle tree.
09Walpole10.jpg=Walpole, Western Australia. Towering Tingle trees. (panorama)
DSC_0322.JPG=Walpole-Nornalup National Park, Western Australia. After reaching a height of 40 metres above the ground, the tree-top walk descends to complete the 600 metre loop back at groung level.
09Walpole22.jpg=Walpole-Nornalup National Park, Western Australia. The discovery centre explains how the tree top walk design was influenced by some of the local flora such as the Tassel Flower (pictured) and Blade Grass.
09WalpolePan32.JPG=Walpole-Nornalup National Park, Western Australia. A fallen Tingle tree in the "Valley of the Giants" wilderness walk. (panorama)
09WalpolePan01.JPG=Walpole, Western Australia. Coalmine Beach. (panorama)
09Walpole14.jpg=Walpole-Nornalup National Park, Western Australia. The "Valley of the Giants" tree-top walk. (panorama)
DSC_0384.JPG=Walpole-Nornalup National Park, Western Australia. The "Valley of the Giants" wilderness walk -  'Grandma Tingle'
09Walpole20.jpg=Walpole-Nornalup National Park, Western Australia. The "Valley of the Giants" tree-top walk.
DSC_0225.JPG=Walpole, Western Australia. Coalmine Beach.
DSC_0380.JPG=Walpole-Nornalup National Park, Western Australia. The "Valley of the Giants" wilderness walk. One tree was called 'Grandma Tingle' because of the bark's resemblance to an elderly face.
09WalpolePan15.JPG=Walpole, Western Australia. Conspicuous Cliffs. (panorama)
DSC_0230.JPG=Walpole, Western Australia. Tingle trees in the Walpole-Nornalup National Park.
09Walpole21.jpg=Walpole-Nornalup National Park, Western Australia. After the Valley of the Giants, we drove to Albany, passing by this deer farm.
09Walpole12.jpg=Walpole, Western Australia - The Western Rosella is found only in the very south west of Western Australia
DSC_0312.JPG=Walpole, Western Australia. Looking for whales at Conspicuous Cliffs.
DSC_0265.JPG=Walpole, Western Australia. The Giant Tingle tree.
09WalpolePan12.JPG=Walpole, Western Australia. Conspicuous Cliffs. (panorama)
09Walpole17.jpg=Walpole-Nornalup National Park, Western Australia. The "Valley of the Giants" tree-top walk. (panorama)
DSC_0342.JPG=Walpole-Nornalup National Park, Western Australia. The "Valley of the Giants" tree-top walk.
09WalpolePan14.JPG=Walpole, Western Australia. Conspicuous Cliffs. (panorama)
DSC_0288.JPG=Walpole, Western Australia. An early Tingle tree image from the days when they could be driven right into. Car buffs might notice the glaring errors. Firstly it is a Chrysler Valiant, and second it  is at least 10 years after 1950.
09WalpolePan28.JPG=Walpole-Nornalup National Park, Western Australia. The "Valley of the Giants" tree-top walk. (panorama)
09Walpole6.jpg=Walpole, Western Australia. Towering Tingle trees. (panorama)
DSC_0394.JPG=Walpole-Nornalup National Park, Western Australia. In the discovery centre is a mock image of early days when visitors prked their vehicles inside Tingle trees for a photo opportunity.
DSC_0352.JPG=Walpole-Nornalup National Park, Western Australia. The "Valley of the Giants" tree-top walk.
09Walpole9.jpg=Driving through Nornalup, Western Australia. "The Pig Poo Lady".
09WalpolePan24.JPG=Walpole-Nornalup National Park, Western Australia. The "Valley of the Giants" tree-top walk. (panorama6)
DSC_0345.JPG=Walpole-Nornalup National Park, Western Australia. The "Valley of the Giants" tree-top walk.
09Walpole19.jpg=Walpole-Nornalup National Park, Western Australia. The "Valley of the Giants" tree-top walk. (panorama)
09Walpole1.jpg=Walpole, Western Australia. Tingle trees in the Walpole-Nornalup National Park. A great many of the surviving Tingle trees are hollowed out like this - an effect that can be caused by the combined damage from forest fire, fungus and insect attack, and yet the tree survives. (panorama)
DSC_0391.JPG=Walpole-Nornalup National Park, Western Australia. Samples of different timbers in the discovery centre.
09Walpole13.jpg=Walpole-Nornalup National Park, Western Australia. The "Valley of the Giants" tree-top walk. (panorama)
09Walpole.jpg=Walpole, Western Australia. Tingle trees in the Walpole-Nornalup National Park. This small region around Walpole is the only place that the Tingle tree is found. (panorama)
09Walpole3.jpg=Walpole, Western Australia. Tassel flowers in the Walpole-Nornalup National Park.
09WalpolePan13.JPG=Walpole, Western Australia. Conspicuous Cliffs. (panorama)
09Walpole5.jpg=Walpole, Western Australia. This tree beside the Giant Tingle tree has many "Burls"including one that we called a turtle face. It is thought that burls are formed when a dormant bud on the tree is stimulated into rapid but unstructured growth. It is similar to the development of some forms of cancer in humans and animals.
DSC_0381.JPG=Walpole-Nornalup National Park, Western Australia. The "Valley of the Giants" wilderness walk -  'Grandma Tingle'
09Walpole7.jpg=Walpole, Western Australia. Prickly Moses at Conspicuous Cliffs.
09Walpole2.jpg=Walpole, Western Australia. The Giant Tingle tree. (panorama)
DSC_0297.JPG=Walpole, Western Australia. Conspicuous Cliffs.
09WalpolePan20.JPG=Walpole-Nornalup National Park, Western Australia. The "Valley of the Giants" tree-top walk. (panorama)
DSC_0353.JPG=Walpole-Nornalup National Park, Western Australia. The "Valley of the Giants" tree-top walk.
DSC_0255.JPG=Walpole, Western Australia. The Giant Tingle tree is about 10 metres in diameter at the ground.
09Walpole18.jpg=Walpole-Nornalup National Park, Western Australia. The "Valley of the Giants" tree-top walk. (panorama)
09Walpole15.jpg=Walpole-Nornalup National Park, Western Australia. The "Valley of the Giants" tree-top walk. (panorama)
09Walpole16.jpg=Walpole-Nornalup National Park, Western Australia. The "Valley of the Giants" tree-top walk. (panorama)
DSC_0334.JPG=Walpole-Nornalup National Park, Western Australia.The "Valley of the Giants" is a development by the Department of Environment and Conservation, designed to give visitors access to and at the same time protect the unique Tingle Trees.
DSC_0302.JPG=Walpole, Western Australia. A glimpse of the Bibbulman Track near Conspicuous Cliffs. It is a marked walking track that stretches for hundreds of kilometres through Western Australia's southern region.
09Walpole4.jpg=Walpole, Western Australia. The Giant Tingle tree. (panorama)
