Oz - Gap n Walpole

Off to Frenchmans Bay to have a ganders at The Gap, basically a break in the coastal cliffs...

Now it gets more impressive, the Natural Bridge does just what it says on the tin, if you squint you can just make out a few of us standing on the top...

Say 'cheese', oh OK, just carry on doing that...

Next up the famous Blow Holes, 'Bat theyer jast a banch a big 'oles ina rock wid mist blawin outta'em... 'bout 1km's walk thet way!' says our driver looking dismayed. Hmm, off to the Valley of the Giants for the Canopy Walk it is then...

Here's me fearlessly suspended 50m's from the forest floor by nothing but a small branch of a tingle tree, of course the bridge just below my feet helped stem my fear... a little...

After seeing the 600th tingle tree boredem sets in so we entertain ourselves by wedging Ranj inside one while our Canadian cousins make hand gestures at him...

The trees are so damn high it takes 2 photos to fit one in...

Next stop Walpole to climb the Bicentennial tree, a 100m high tree used as a fire lookout with spikes driven in around the trunk to form a staircase, hell of a time to wander why you wore those slippy sole sandals...

Cushions (so called 'cos he asked Sarah if he could go to sleep on her shoulder once, then dropped his head in her cleavage) went first, then Sarah with me taking up the rear. Half the climb I'm loudly demanding Sarah why she's going so slow, always getting an inaudible reply. Turns out Cushions was letting one go with every step, oops, sorry...

We reach the top and Sarah's noticeably happier being able to breathe uncontaminated air...

Cushions, the culprit, sits coyly on the left...