Valley Of The Giants
Major Activity : Tree Top Walk
This famous area of australia is known for its tree top walks. The area offers 650 metre long tree top walk gently that accends into the tree tops 45 metres above the forest floor. Descend to the boardwalk below and explore the ‘Ancient Empire’, a grove of veteran tingle trees. Take a birds eye view of the towering tingle forest from a spectacular lightweight bridge through the forest canopy.
Access by Car: The Valley of the Giants is 430 kilometres south of Perth and 100 kilometres west of Albany. Take the Valley of the Giants Road north off the South Coast Highway for five kilometres to the carpark entrance.
Open Times: 09:00am to 16:15pm March to November. 08:00am to 17:15pm December to February. Site will close 45 minutes after the last entry to the Tree Top Walk. Closed Christmas Day, Good Friday and during hazardous weather conditions.
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Walpole
Tiny and friendly, Walpole is experiencing a tourism boom because of its proximity to Walpole-Nornalup National Park and the recently constaicted Valley of the Giants Tree Top Walk 14km out of town. The friendly, volunteer-run tourist bureau, on the north side of the liighway, hands out information on the surrounding tingle and karri forest and the beautiful coast of Walpole and Nortia-lup Inlets, and sells Tree Top Walk tickets (open daily 9am-4pm, 5pm in holiday seaŽson). Walpole's post office and grocery store can be found across the street, alone with a handful of shops and balcony cafes.
The Top Deck Cafe
Megalong Valley
Megalong is an Aboriginal word thought to mean 'Valley Under The Rock'. The first record of a European coming to the valley was of Thomas Jones, a natural history specimen collector, who followed the course of Cox's River from Burragorang to Hartley in 1818. The first land was taken up in 1838, those settlers travelling from Burragorang and Camden.
The best bushwalking in the Megalong is the historic 'Six Foot Track'. One of the few places where you can see what the gorges of the Blue Mountains look like from your own two feet, with many magical Rainforest walks, and
Berry
The beautiful township of Berry is nestled between Kangaroo Valley and Seven Mile Beach. Located on Princes Highway, Berry is 15km north of Nowra. It is also easily accessible from Kangaroo Valley via Kangaroo Valley Road.
The rustic and friendly charm of Berry is not to be missed. The historic town (Broughton Creek Village) was settled in 1875 and was part of Alexandra Berry's Coolangatta Estate.
Many of its enchanting buildings have been renovated and now house cafes, antiques, crafts, nursery, hotels, indigenous arts, galleries and a museum. One of the popular attractions is The Berry Stores (Wilson's Stores, 1892).
Murchison
Murchison is a small rural town of some 600 people situated on the Goulburn River in the Lower Goulburn Valley Plains. Murchison East is located 145 km north of Melbourne on the Goulburn Valley Highway, between Nagambie and Shepparton. Murchison itself is just to the west, off the highway.
The town benefitted greatly from the river trade which began with the arrival of the first paddlesteamer in 1875. At that time it had six hotels, a number of general stores, two flour mills, a post office, a sawmill, cordial factory, two blacksmiths and numerous other stores and services.
Western Australia
To say that Western Australia is immense is something of an understatement. The water pipes that stretch from Perth to Kalgoorlie are the length of England. The state boundaries enclose an area three-and-a-half times the size of Texas and could contain the Netherlands 70 times over. You can drive for hours along the desert roads withŽout seeing another car. Yet most visitors, like most Westralians, never see more than a fraction of it. Of the state's 1.7 million people, 1.3 million live in the Perth area, and most of the rest are close to the coast, among the vineyards
