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A walk amongst the treetops
10,000 Kilometres, and 2,000 photo's in one week.....
This was my holiday...Day 3 WA Southwest (Walpole-Nornalup National Park) near Denmark and an early morning walk through the Valley of the Giants.
The Valley of the Giants Tree Top Walk is a spectacular lightweight bridge through the forest canopy. The bridge ascends into the tree tops 40 meters above the forest floor.
The park has four species of eucalyptus, which occur only in the Walpole area - three species of tingle trees in the tall forest, and the red flowering gums closer to the sea.
The Walpole-Nornalup National Park is the only place where the red tingle tree (Eucalyptus Jacksonii) is found. They are the largest based of all the eucalypts with a girth of up to 26 metres. Growing up to 75 metres tall this buttressed, rough barked tree, can live to over 400 years old. There is also a yellow tingle tree (Eucalyptus Guilfoyle) which doesn’t grow as wide as the red tingle tree.
Tingle trees are often ‘hollowed out’ by fire and fungal attack however their structure means that they can continue to grow.
A walk amongst the treetops
10,000 Kilometres, and 2,000 photo's in one week.....
This was my holiday...Day 3 WA Southwest (Walpole-Nornalup National Park) near Denmark and an early morning walk through the Valley of the Giants.
The Valley of the Giants Tree Top Walk is a spectacular lightweight bridge through the forest canopy. The bridge ascends into the tree tops 40 meters above the forest floor.
The park has four species of eucalyptus, which occur only in the Walpole area - three species of tingle trees in the tall forest, and the red flowering gums closer to the sea.
The Walpole-Nornalup National Park is the only place where the red tingle tree (Eucalyptus Jacksonii) is found. They are the largest based of all the eucalypts with a girth of up to 26 metres. Growing up to 75 metres tall this buttressed, rough barked tree, can live to over 400 years old. There is also a yellow tingle tree (Eucalyptus Guilfoyle) which doesn’t grow as wide as the red tingle tree.
Tingle trees are often ‘hollowed out’ by fire and fungal attack however their structure means that they can continue to grow.