It’s seems like its taken forever but we’ve finally made it to Albany. We arrived yesterday afternoon and set up our new site at the Caravan Park at Emu Point on Middleton Bay. It’s a very modern and green park, its nice to have all green grass around us after 3 months of sand and dirt underfoot.

We have a severe weather warning for Sunday thru Tuesday, so we took the opportunity with beautiful weather today to travel west thru Denmark to visit the Valley of the Giants, which are extremely large “Tingle” (Eucalyptus trees). They were once called Karri trees but “Tingle” was the local Aboriginal name for these trees and now that’s what they are called. They grow to 70 metres tall and have a base up to 20 metres in diameter. We did the walk thru the forest, the metal walkway thru the trees is 40 metres high and the trees really dwarfed the walkway. It was truly a great experience, well worth seeing.

After the tree walk we called in on the Dinosaur, Reptile and Bird Park. This was a small park off the main highway and it was a gem, we really enjoyed talking to John the owner/operator who lived onsite and was very knowledgeable about the birds, most which he had reared from birth.

On the way back to Albany, we called into a Toffee and Cider place for lunch and then finished off at a Swiss chocolate factory. It was great to be out travelling the countryside and visiting places. Fortunately the tourist places are opening up and cafe’s are also open as well, so there is a resemblance of normality happening. We have a lot to see in the Albany region, so we are going to spend 12 days here and we’re looking forward to it after todays travels.