Large and small

Good thing we've chosen to take a line-bird to fly to Perth as it is a 4 hour domestic flight. Before checking out the city itself, we first set of for South WA. The coast itself is pretty but it's contaminated with industry and factories and new developments for houses are everywhere. These new houses are built on, for Australian standards, very small pieces of land. That doesn't make the scenery very attractive.

Not until another 500km South, it starts to get very beautiful and spacious again: a lovely mountain and forrest scenery with impressively high trees (60m). That's when you get that Ozzie laidback feeling back again. The highest tree of all (the ‘giant tingle tree’) is so tall and wide that in the old days everyone took a picture of it with a car parked inside the tree. Due to all this the poor bugger collapsed but you can still see the remainder.

To prevent the roots from damage, an impressive ‘tree top walk’ has been developed, which takes you on a walk through (guess what) the treetops up to 40m high.

Southern W.A. (Western Australia) proves to be a bit colder than what we got used to. Perhaps we should have known this when they supplied us with wood for a campfire at the (fantastic) campsite....after a sleepless night we did reluctantly buy sleeping bags.

Well after this short tourist trip it's up to Perth.