The Tingle Tree Forest

It seemed the perfect place to try some
 Black & White

Chenty hates it when I get the camera
 out for this stuff

I like this one as it looks like Chenty is big enough
to actually ride the Bike

We were told not to miss this by many people

But first I get to go for a drive, I feel like Im 10 again!

Up in the tree tops the views
 are extraordinary.

A very well engineered walkway

We must have been 100 ft in the air

The Tingle Tree  has a serious problem
catching fire and there are many trees with the
centre burnt out but somehow they
manage to survive

The mighty Tingle Tree
Apparently a lot of the forest around this part
was cut down and taken to London to pave the streets

The Walpole-Nornalup National Park is the only place where the red tingle tree (Eucalyptus Jacksonii) is found. This buttressed, rough barked tree can live over 400 years and grows up to 75 metres in height, and with a girth of up to 26 metres, they have the largest base of all the eucalypts.  There is also a yellow tingle tree (Eucalyptus guilfoyle) which dosnt grow as wide as the red tingle tree.

While tingle trees are often hollowed out by fire and fungal attack, their robust structure allows them to continue growing.  An excellent example of this is the Giant Tingle Tree near Walpole.

The Valley of the Giants Tree Top Walk gives visitors a different perspective of the tingle forest from 38 metres above the forest floor.