Back on the road again.
Having spent last night in Pemberton, where to be truthful, although it is a lovely spot there is little to see. We were back on the road by 10.00 am.
We drove today through miles of bush seeing very few cars and marvelling at the trees we saw.
To make sure we saw enough trees we even did a 23 kilometre forest drive , this was on an unmade road at about 30kmph maximum. As we had told no one we were going to do this, in fact we weren't even sure until we arrived, I was glad another large vehicle followed us circumspect fully around. In this case it was good to have company.
One has to marvel at the attitude the early settlers must have had to clear forest like we saw today. I am fairly sure that I would have been fairly useless at it. We visited a museum where one of the pictures was of a settler in the 1920's using dynamite to blow up a tree stump and I could understand why he did.
After lunch we did the tree top walk in the Valley of the Giants which was a wonderful experience 40 metres up in the tree canopy.
The drive to Albany was fairly pleasant and at times you could have thought that yo were in England as pastureland rolled down hills towards the sea. The sighting of a kangaroo in a field rather ended this thought though.
We are now camping out to avoid paying exorbitant prices for meals in restaurants. We have purchased some plastic plates and glasses, along with a couple of plastic glasses, so that we can eat in our room at night and use a toaster in the mornings. We have had some really nice salads and tonight had roasted chicken bought form a supermarket. For breakfast we are having toast, as most motels provide a toaster and yoghurt with fruit juice, who could ask for more. As breakfast out seems to cost about 20$ each this is quite a considerable saving. This is not totally based on penny pinching but also on the avoidance of too many calories. To survive like this is quite a pleasing thing and we are having some good simple meals, we feel sure that many other people must do the same. Tomorrow off to Esperance, only 490 kilometres away.if nothing else we should see a few more trees.