Well it was time to hit the road again and this time it was a drive up into the hills to a place called DWELLINGUP, with all the kiddies in the car off we went. Dwellingup is located 97 km south of Perth. It is a small settlement situated on top of the escarpment and, as a typical timber town, is surrounded by a state forest.
Here are the kiddies outside the information center, their's a fair wrack of stuff about the timber town and about the history of the place. Of cause the kiddies were only interested in the ice cream shop, but we had only just got into town so no ice cream yet!.... bugger
The major attraction in the area is the Hotham Valley Tourist Railway. The promotional brochure describes the Dwellingup Forest Ranger Tour, which operates about 20 times a year between May and October, as follows: 'Steam Hauled Picnic Trains. Re-live the age of steam on Western Australia's most famous Sun
day picnic trains along the beautifully scenic Hotham Valley Railway. WA's steepest and most spectacular section of railway. Travel through lush green dairy country and in Spring view a magnificent display of wildflow
ers before climbing the Darling Range into the heart of the jarrah forest.As you can see the kiddies love all that train stuff, this was in the picnic area so after a sandwich and a little drink they were all over these things.
on ya Osc!
After our picnic the kiddies had a walk through the park until they came to this old log, and before you could say 'Don't even think of getting up on top of that....' they were up their. Except for Harrison and Oscar, Harry didn't like the look of it so he kept down and as for Oscar well...
he liked the inside of the tree instead! As for the poor bugger (the Jarrah tree that is) it was noted that it would of been over 600 years old, till some nob head came over to it with an axe and then it was 'Good night the fox'.
My little princess
But that was out day out up at Dwellingup, and we had a real beaut time.
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