Great Places To Visit.

The Coalmine Beach Caravan Park is nestled in the bush just out of Walpole. It's and idealic location with its lovely beach frontage for nature walks and easy driving to local attractions such as The Tall Trees  Walkway, Giant Tingle Tree, The Walpole-Nornalup Inlet for boaties who like fishing, and during Whale watching season you can watch the migration of whales on the South Coast.  The Walpole-Normalup National Park covers 18,000 hectares and basically encircles the town. With it's spectacular tall Kari trees it's beautiful just to drive through. We did the Hilltop Gully Rd to the Giant Tingle Tree (paved walking paths from the car park), then left onto Allen Rd, completing a circuit of beautiful forest driving on excellent well maintained dirt roads(suitable for any vehicle). The Giant Tingle Tree was as promised....GIANT. We went on over to Valley of the Giants in order to do the tree top walk - AMAZING!!!  The walk is suspended 40 metres into the forest canopy, w...

It's December and the Cherry Festival is in full swing in Manjimup W.A. It's a quaint little town that really knows how to have some fun. The festival runs for a few days and has a large produce market on the Saturday morning as well as lots of various stall holders. They put on a great show with dignitaries (W.A. Premier) doing the official opening of the Cherry Festival. Lots of entertainment to watch and plenty of things to look at or purchase. They expected about 10,0000 people to attend, so no little thing! The also had a parade of vehicles, police band, drummers, fancy dress, fire truck, semi-trailers, just to name a few.  A very entertaining morning was had by yours truly and hubby. As it was about 35C today we left about lunch time and retreated to the peace and quiet of Fonty's Pool & Caravan Park where we are staying with our caravan. What a great spot Fonty's Pool is!!!!! A MUST if you come to W.A. especially in summer! The pool is a lake that was set u...