Tree Top Walk and Ancient Empire

Before the preservation of the Red Tingle Forest, it was possible to park your car inside the hollow of the trees.  This is a re enactment by Becki and her Dad

One of the 60 metre bridge spans

The canopy of the trees

The root system of the Red Tingle

Dad in one of the many hollows

Looking up the hollow of the red tingle tree

Its hard to believe with so much of the trunk hollowed out there is still a healthy tree

A fallen tree

Karri Oak Tree

A Red Tingle Tree's root system

One of the beautiful wild flowers throughout the Ancient Empire

A Tree Top walk was first proposed in this area in 1994 to protect the tingle forest. Construction began a year later.  The construction consists of 60 metre lightweight bridge spans on seven pylons.  It reaches a maximum of 40 metres at the highest point.   It is a world most people never see.  The spans were especially designed to sway slightly as you walk to create the sensation of being in the canopy of the forest.  Well it certainly swayed brilliantly today.   The life of a Red Tingle is approx 400 years and they can reach a height of 75 metres.  They are some of most enormous trees in the world and can only be found in this region.  A distinctive feature of the Red Tingle is the large, hollowed out base.  These have been caused over a long period of time by fire, fungal and insect attack.  Most of the plant life is unique to this area and the tingle forest hosts an abundant food source for native animals such as quokkas, bandicoots, possums and the western grey kangaroo.  As most of these animals only come out at night we need to do a Forest by Night Tour.  Here you get to explore the forest by torchlight beneath a blanket of stars.  The Ancient Empire Walk meanders through a grove of veteran trees at ground level and gives another perspective of the magnificent giants