Pemberton, WA

Pemberton is famous for its giant tingle trees and its beautiful forest and also the new Munda Biddi mountain bike track that weaves over 1000km through the South West of the country. We headed to the camp ground as even though the weather was still rubbish, we thought we should get camping again and not spend all our money on nice cabins. This is what we found at the camp ground!

This is the campground! The posts are the campsite markers. We are prepared for roughing it but this was going to be a challenge!

Thanks, but no thanks

So, after a visit to the visitor information centre trying to find somewhere to stay we ended up at Pemberton Farm Chalets in a 4 bedroom house! So much for trying to save the $$$ by camping again. But it was all that was available and it was a good price as everything was in a bit of disarray after 3 days without power and trees still down across the region. The farmer who owned the property was desperately trying to get everything in order before a busy long weekend in WA. The best thing about our house for 2 days was the open fire and our very own laundry!

Look at all that SPACE!

But the best thing about this place from the kids perspective was that there were a lot of baby animals to feed twice a day. Like any farmers, our daily schedule was based on the feeding routines of the animals. We had to be back home in time for baby lamb and baby calf to get their bottle.

Sophia with Lamby the lamb

Sami with TimTam the cow

Chris finally managed to go for a MTB ride on the Munda Biddi track but came across more than a few obstacles so it was a slow ride....

Another tree down across the trail!

 We visited a few of the sights around Pemberton- mostly to do with very tall trees.

The roads around here are beautiful

You can climb this tree to the lookout at the top. It's over 60 metres high and an old fire lookout tree.

We didn't climb all the way up, but we did go a few metres

We also did the Tree Top Walk 40 metres above ground. We had been told by lots of travellers that it wasn't worth it and a lot of money for a quick walk through the tree tops. We were going to just do the walk on the forest floor but couldn't help ourselves once we got there. May as well give it a go!

Old Grandma Tingle

And then it was time to head East for home.... on our way now!