Black Betty and the Gloucster tree

Black Betty is an old coaster bus that Ben,Tanya and the kids live and have travelled around Australia in.
As all vans Betty had a problem on our way to our next destination that she broke down. As we were travelling as a group we decided to take the kids off there hands for a bit while they were waiting for a tow to the next town.
so we decided to take ourselves and the kids in to the local town that was Pemberton to see what there was to do.
when we arrived in Pemberton we heard of a site called the Gloucester tree that was situated in a park about 30kms away.

Black Betty had a blown head gasket and had to be towed to another town other than Pemberton that had a garage that could fix her this meant that we had to take a detour from the original plan and head towards Manjimup a small town in land.


GLOUCESTER TREE
Myself Aimee and the kids Asta and Gustav took the 30k drive to see the Gloucester tree and once again this was a National park and fees applied but because we bought a annual national parks pass in Perth we got in free. We parked the pom bomb and walked towards the Gloucester tree.
To our amazement this tree was 62meters high and to climb it there was metal rods that were placed into the tree and spiralled around all the way to the platform at the top and in to the canopy of the trees in the park.
Me and Aimee decided that we were up to the challenge of climbing the tree so I went first and Aimee stayed at the base of the tree with Asta and Gustav.
As I climbed the tree it was quite physical and the gap between the metal rods were sum distance apart so it took a while to get a rhythm together whilst climbing the 62meters to the top of the canopy.
But it was worth the climb as you could see for miles across the country side and the park.
I climbed down and then Aimee decided it was her turn I advised her it was physical work but she rose to the challenge.
We found out how physical it actually was as for days after our leg muscles were hurting.



Whilst we were in the park we saw sum of the wildlife in particular a large group of parrots that were around the picnic area so Aimee went to the car to get sum bread to feed them and to our amazement the birds were sitting on our arms and heads and where ever we placed the food for them it was a great photo opportunity.


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