On the road towards.... Tingle trees and allsorts




 



Nick and Marvin at the toffee  shop

 

So after a few lovely days camped at Denmark boat harbor (where we had the little bay to ourselves and had a great swim - the water is not that cold, something to do with the Leeuwin current) We moved on, as the wet weather was starting to roll in, and our second day after our swim was spent inside due to rain., we had another amazing thunderstorm that night. We wanted to see these tingle trees to find out what the fuss was about.

This is us camped in the peppermint trees by the beach at Denmark boat harbor

This was the lovely bay at Boat harbor

Don't know what happened here but she was pretty dirty , our guess is chasing rabbits

 



We skipped the tree top walk, on recommendation from Basil who said the Ancient empire walk was better (that's underneath) and loved it. So we found out that tingle trees are rare and only grow in this small area around Warpole in WA. They need high amounts of rainfall to survive and their roots are very sensitive (hence the treetop walk). The red tingle is distinguished by the hollow trunk and lots of burls on the trunk itself.



I felt this 'ol girl had a lot of character.



Cool carving



This is the rare speaker tree species( Karri eucalypt tree), only found in Walpole WA

We then headed on to the Worlds largest girthed eucalypt at 24m wide (wow) which so happens to be a tingle tree. After a nice little stroll through the national park we found it and wee very impressed with its size.

 Some info on the handy sign

 Cute little mushrooms and fungus are found through out the  Forrest

 

 

On our way out we saw this stranded little cow , he was drinking of the puddle on the road. There was a farm nearby we thinks he went for an explore.