L0p3z and Neno's Upside-Down Adventure: Pemberton

On Monday we took the coach from Augusta to Pemberton. The coach driver was mental, hammering round corners, slamming the breaks on for kangaroos. Both of us felt a little sick, it was like a bad rollercoaster. We arrived in Pemberton late so didn't get a chance to look around that evening. The hostel was really nice, its a small cottage for people travelling rather than workers. We met some nice people from the dorm and chilled by the fire sharing stories or horrible hostels we had all stayed in. The next day we walked with a Dutch guy, Hans, from our dorm to the Gloucester tree. This is a 61m high fire look out tree that you can climb using metal spikes in the side. Health and Safety is a minimum here and there are a few hairy moments where the climb is pretty steep. The view at the top was cool but you can feel the whole tree moving in the wind. Coming down is a bit easier but the legs were pretty wobbly by the end.

We then decided to walk along some of the Bibbulman track (a famous 1000km walk from Perth to Albany) to the Cascades. The walk was fun Hans saw a Dugite snake but they are pretty quick so we only caught a glimpse of the tail. There were loads of trees and branches blocking the track so it made the straight bits more interesting. The Cascades were a touch disappointing after the trek but we saw a Laughing Kookaburra who followed us around for a while. Instead of taking the same route back we climbed onto the tram tracks to walk back to the town. After some discussion of the safety of this we decided the "twice a day" tram had already passed so we started walking. Literally a minute after this we head the horn of the tram and then very slowly it rounded the corner. We laughed as it passed by, safe to say we had plenty of time to get out of the way. Walking along the track was cool, although there were some unsettling moments crossing high bridges just by stepping on the sleepers. You get a weird perspective distortion which means something as simple as walking on specific points very difficult. We arrived back and popped open a few well deserved beers.