Walpole WA, Valley of the Giants, Treetop Walk

Walpole WA, Valley of the Giants, Treetop Walk - Australia

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, which is not the top of these amazing trees. They can grow over 70 metres high!! Truely beautiful. Lots of birds calling, but very difficult to see them. You can take your time on the tree top walk, and go around it more than once if you like. Well worth the money. Also they have The Ancient Empire Walk (ground level) that you can wander through and here you can see the gorgeous Fairy Wrens (hard to get a photo, they move so quickly) and many other birds. Wildflowers are scattered throughout the bush here and are beautiful. Some are so tiny you wonder how they survive.
We spent a few hours here as it was a good day weather wise and seating is provided throughout the valley walk. Highly recommend a visit here.


Can you spot the 2 Fairy Wrens?

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