Slideshow Index: Western Australia

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• Jan 31st - Lunch on our way to Albany, 415 km SE of Perth
• The lay of the land in southwestern Australia
• Looking at Albany on our way up one of the town mountains
• The lookout point. We got our exercise this day on the climb
• Looking into the bay of Albany, first white settlement in western Australia
• Panoramic view from the lookout point
• Arnie at the viewing point
• Great pub and food in Albany that evening
• Feb 1st - Lunch stop on our way to Bunbury
• Highway 1 between Albany and Pemberton
• At the entrance to the Valley of the Giants Tree Top Walk
• One of the few places where giant pines grow has a treetop walk that goes up to 40 meters (130 ft)
• At the second bend
• It's a ways down
• Here is the 40 meter high point
• Quite a structure
• Looking at the Stirling Range
• Massive tree trunks
• Another gnarled trunk
• Big enough to stand in the hollow
• We made it to Bunbury on the coast around dusk
• Feb 2nd - We skipped this since the dolphins hadn't been there for a couple of weeks
• We headed a little south to Busselton, a town made famous by a record sized jetty
• The entrance to the Busselton jetty
• The jetty extends 2 km (1 1/4 mile) into the Indian Ocean
• We took the train out and walked back
• Looking under the jetty floor, the ocean is only about 10 meters deep here.
• Lots of different coral and fish at the viewing place beneath the jetty
• The pillars support a variety of coral and fish
• The train we took out
• We are about half way back
• The view from the starting point
• On the way back to Bunbury
• We stopped at another surfing beach