Sun 27th – Tue 29th June. Augusta-Pemberton
Sunday 27th June
Out of Augusta on a wet day into a farm stay at Pemberton. Set up and into town for lunch at the pub. Weather clearing, sort of, so we opt to start the 84km Karri Explorer Scenic drive. Through the huge 400 yr old Karri trees…
Monday 28th June
Brighter day today so out to complete the Karri Explorer Scenic drive. First stop Beedelup Falls and a suspension bridge.
More trees…
Warren River…
Then on to the Bicentenial Tree. This is the highest tree climb in the world, 65 metres up. It used to be used for fire spotting, the cab at the top is well above tree top level giving an unrestricted 360degree view. But it is not a climb for the faint hearted… both Kate and myself dabbled up about 10metres before reconsidering the lack of safety apparatus and returned to solid ground, but Paul persevered and climbed to the top. Unfortunately due to the concern of phones falling out of pockets etc. Paul didn’t take his phone to capture photos from the top.. oh well next time!
Then we headed for the coast, visiting Windy Harbour, Point d’Entrecasteaux and Tookulup Lookout. Fantastic views but it lived up to its name as it was very windy,
Followed by dinner at the Lakeside Restaurant near Pemberton.
Tuesday 29th June
## Pemberton Transit Park; Yeagarup Sand Dunes;
Today we trek down to Yeagarup Beach via the Yeagarup sand dunes one of the worlds largest moving sand dune. Steadily moving inland. Quite soft sand with signs saying to let tyre pressures down to 10psi, as we have plenty of sand driving experience we started at 18psi but as the return was a significant uphill drive we defaulted to their suggestion and had no problems. The sand dune itself looks amazing, the beach unfortunately was way too windy and with showers passing through all the time, very unpleasant. So we found a spot behind the beach dunes for a picnic lunch and returned.
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