Pemberton is most famous for it’s climbing trees. There is the 58m high Gloucester tree and 68m Dave Evan’s Bicentennial tree. Ville tried to climb both of them to the top but only managed to conquer the Gloucester, well on a third attempt. It was pretty scary to climb so high up with no proper safety net nor harnesses.

First night we camped at Drafty’s campsite in Warren national park. There was no reservation policy at that camping so we just had to drive there and hope there would be space for us. Being off season the campsite was almost empty. The problem was the paying method. So far most of the campsites needed to be booked and paid on advance, online. Here, on the other hand, they had only a little post box, where you were supposed to slip the exact payment in a registration envelope. And we didn’t have that. We managed to scrape payment for one night instead of intended two (which was lucky in the end, since we decided to go to different campsite the next night).

We had been doing heaps of walking trails, so here we wanted to do something different. We took a half-a-day canoeing tour on Warren river with a local guide called Andy. As the season had not yet started, we were the only ones on the tour. We spent a nice chillout morning floating on the calm river and talking about what-not with Andy, who turned out an interesting character. He fed us with mandarins and oranges from his garden, and in the end of the tour invited us to his house for some tea and to see his pet kangaroos. They were, in fact, wild creatures, but he was feeding them so they would come to his place. One of them was even so friendly that she would allow to pet her while she was eating.

From Andy’s suggestion we decided to stay the second night in Carey Brook at Snottygobble campsite. The night was cold and when we woke up and left to see intriguingly named Goblin swamp we had to put almost our warmest clothes on. The swamp could be contemplated only from one lookout point, but it really deserved the name, and the photos made no justice to it.

Before roadtripping for 3 hours to the next destination we had to stretch our legs more. So we drove to Beedelup National Park that was close by. There we first walked a small loop that went past a waterfall by a suspension bridge. We continued the morning stroll and also did an hour loop around a lake next to the waterfalls.