Valley of the Giants Tree Top Walk

Many years ago, when John and I first met, he showed me photos of the Tree Top Walk and I decided then I would love to go there.

The park is nearly 20,000 hectares of towering karri and tingle forests to coastal heath. The rugged coastline, peaceful inlets and rivers are a major feature of the park’s beauty.

The Park has long been one of the area’s most popular tourist destinations. The Tree Top Walk, is a walkway that rises up to 38m above the forest. All ages can view the canopy of the magnificent tingle forest. Visitors get a different perspective on the shapes, sounds and movement of the forest.

Even though it was rather far, we made plans to go visit.

Walpole, where you can walk up by the trees!

I was so excited to see we had arrived!

Entrance

When John bought the tickets, the lady there warned us ‘it wiggles a bit’.

Well I thought she meant a place or two wiggles, turns out the walk was not steady at all. I found myself very nervous each step we took.

Tree Top Walk, the start

We weren’t even that high when I noticed my shoe was untied, and I was too scared to bend over to tie it. Too afraid to carry on with my shoe untied, John, a true gentleman, tied it for me.

Higher

Seeing we will go higher

Laura wasn't a bit nervous

I guess it was about this time that John’s earlier warning, “Hold on to your lens cap” sounded in my head as I heard the clicking sound of my camera’s lens cap falling down to the metal floor. A floor with just enough space for a lens cap to fall through. My eyes closed and almost too scared to open them to look down to see the fate of my camera’s lens, I slowly looked down to find it just sitting there. Now, bending over to tie my shoes was too scary, but for my camera, it was another story. I bent my knees as low as they would go, careful not to knock the cap into any gap, I grabbed it as quickly as I could.

Getting up with the tree tops

So it turns out, I have a real fear of heights, and I was so dizzy, to the point this was no longer enjoyable as I imagined.

High in the treetops

Laura

Tree top Walk

When we finished the loop, John asked if I wanted to go around again. I almost punched him.

🙂

At the gift shop, he bought me a certificate with my name on it, “Barbara survived the tree top walk.”