Peaceful Bay to Shelley Beach

I woke up to clear skies this morning right up until the moment I was about to pull the tent down. Then it rained. Can't be packing away a dry tent. It continued to rain for most of the day while I was riding.

I stopped at the treetop walk not far from where I camped. The treetop walk seems to be the thing to do near Walpole. The trees were mostly Red and Yellow Tingle trees, with a few Karri trees. The Karri trees have the Tingles for height, but the Red Tingle is far mightier. It has a massive trunk that stays massive the whole way up and then splits off into a heap of huge branches (as trees tend to do). The base has a circumference of up to 25 metres!

The treetop walk is 40 metres high and the trees still tower over it. So really it should be called the midtree walk.

That tall one is a Karri, which must be 50 metres tall, which I will point out is 1/20th of a kilometre tall. 

I don't want to bang on too much about trees. They're just really impressive is all. Definitely a have to be there thing.

After that I rode in the rain to Shelley Beach. It is down an excellent dirt road and around a couple of headlands. It was a nice ride in. I got here and the place is perfection. The rain even stopped. Glowing blue water and white sand. You can camp right on the edge of the beach. Even better there was nobody else here. Even better than that is that the ranger comes to collect camping fees, but the ranger didn't come so it's free.

I set up and went into Albany, about 30km away. I got a battery charger for my ecigarette and went to bcf for another mattress. They gave me a different, more expensive mattress as a replacement and so far it is staying up. It's also bigger and thicker while rolling up to nearly as small. So I'm pretty happy with that.

I might stay here for a couple of nights. There is another beach over the next hill I'd like to walk to. If the weather warms up, which it is supposed to do soon, I might never leave.