Photos of the southwest of Western Australia

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The Valley of the Giants is between the towns of Denmark and Walpole in the Great Southern region of Western Australia. It has some of the tallest trees in the state, Red Tingle (Eucalyptus jacksonii), which typically grows to a height of 8 to 45 metres or more: a 52-metre high tree has been reported. The Valley of the Giants Tree Top Walk is a 600-metre walkway constructed 40 metres above the ground, offering a birds-eye view of those giant trees, while the Ancient Empires Walk allows close inspection of trees, hollowed-out by fire at the bottom.

Wilson Inlet, Denmark
 
Valley of the Giants
 
Treetop Walk
 
Hollow Red Tingle tree
 
Hollow Red Tingle tree
 
“Grandma
 
Road in the Valley of the Giants
 
Gravel road, Valley of the Giants
 
View, Hiltop Lookout
 
Hollow Tingle tree
 
Red Tingle Eucalyptus tree
 
Red Tingle Eucalyptus tree
 
Red Tingle Eucalyptus tree
 
Red Tingle Eucalyptus tree
 
St John Ambulance, Walpole
 
Nockolds Street, Walpole
 
Rest Point, Cape Howe National Park
 
Rest Point, Walpole Inlet
 
Rest Point, Walpole Inlet
 
Pedestrian crossing, Manjimup
 
Shops, Manjimup
 
Locomotive, Manjimup Heritage Park
 
Diamond Tree
 
Gloucester Tree
 
Gloucester Tree
 
View from Gloucester Tree
 
Karri trees Gloucester National Park
 
Railway crossing, Pemberton
 
Historical precinct, Pemberton
 
Street, Pemberton
 
Wooden houses, Pemberton
 
Giant Karri trees
 
Beedelup Falls
 
Walk-through-tree
 
Walk-through-tree
 
Beedelup Recreational Lake
 

Walpole is the centre of the ecologically significant Walpole Wilderness area, with beautiful scenery in Walpole-Nornalup National Park, like in Rest Point at Walpole Inlet. Travelling 120 kilometres northwest through the State Forests of Mount Franklin and Greater Dordagup National Parks, you reach the town of Manjimup. It was a centre of timber cutting and remains its principal industry, with farming growing more critical. The Manjimup Timber and Heritage Park Complex showcases the history, an open-air museum with a reconstructed historic hamlet.

Manjimup is surrounded by karri trees (Eucalyptus diversicolor), the tallest trees in Western Australia and one of the most towering hardwoods on earth: they typically grow to 10–60 metres. Still, they can reach as high as 90 metres. Ten kilometres south of Manjimup is the Diamond Tree, with a wooden platform 40 metres up. Further south, near the timber town of Pemberton, is the Gloucester Tree, a giant karri tree in the Gloucester National Park. At 58 metres in height, it is the world’s second tallest fire-lookout tree, and visitors can climb up to a platform in its upper branches for views of the surrounding karri forest. Nearby is Beedelup National Park, which has a “Walk-through-tree”, a karri where you can actually walk (or crawl) through.