Sadie takes her dream trip to Australia, where she embraces solo travel life until she crosses paths with quirky Irish traveller Neil. The two discover they share more than their love for adorable Aussie animals as they complete bucket lists they'd...
Tiger and Goanna's Top 12 Adventures of Western Australia!
It's the one-year anniversary of our time together in Australia! To celebrate, we'd love to share some of our favourite places (or a few we still want to visit) in the state where we met. A bucket list for all of you following our adventures from a distance.
Our friends and family were disappointed to learn we'd extended our visas another year (but can you blame us?). We'd like to soften that blow by enticing you to visit instead. To my relatives and friends, we all know those Canadian prairie winters are the WORST (remember -40 windchills, scraping ice and snow off your car, and dressing up like a bank robber just to avoid frostbite?). You should spend yours with us!
Or consider visiting during your summer holidays if you have your eyes on the outback as Australian seasons are the opposite of the northern hemisphere's. Australian summer is not an ideal season to spend long periods of time outdoors in the outback.
Good point, Tiger. We'll be happy to lend you a tent, cook you camp food, and take you to see adorable creatures and amazing places.
Since we love animals and nature, our selections are skewed in that direction.
But still incredibly awesome!!
We hope you enjoy our recommendations and find them useful! We've split the list into southern and northern halves of the state to make it easier to plan your adventure. Let's start with the South!
12. Pemberton Karri Forests
I had to fight Goanna to get this one on the list.
Because it involved climbing 'stairs' that were just metal rods hammered into the side of a tree!
It's the world's largest fire lookout tree at 61 metres, called the Gloucester Tree. It offers incredible views of the Karri forest should you make it up the 153 pegs to the final viewing platform.
That any person who walks up to it can climb. Without a safety line. The first check-point was as far as I, or anyone with even a partial self-preservation instinct, was going.
Which was still quite impressive!
Not as impressive as you bounding your way to the top. Are Tiger-monkeys real? Because that would explain a few things.
No, although tigers can climb trees, even if they don't do it often. The Pemberton Forest is a stunning and refreshing find after the outback heat. You can tackle shorter sections of the intense 1000-kilometre Bibbulman Track, which ambitious souls hike from Perth to Albany. In the Pemberton Forest, birds are plentiful such as honeyeaters, wrens, and fantails. Other mammals include the quenda (like a bandicoot), the mardo (like shrews), and small populations of the quokka, which is a fairly rare macropod (even rarer to see on the mainland). More on them later. The South West Boojarah people are the traditional custodians of Gloucester National Park.
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