Four Aces

The Four Aces, Western Australia.

The four trees grew from a single fallen and thus are perfectly in line with one another.

The Four Aces are four magnificent karri trees standing tall in an evenly-spaced straight line in the midst of a beautiful karri forest in the One Tree Bridge Conservation Park between Manjimup and Nannup, Western Australia.

Gloucester Tree - Pemberton - Western Australia

The Gloucester Tree is a giant karri tree in the Gloucester National Park of Western Australia.

At 53 metres in height, it is the world's second tallest fire-lookout tree[1] (second only to the nearby Dave Evans Bicentennial Tree), and visitors can climb up to a platform in its upper branches for a spectacular view of the surrounding karri forest. It is owned by the Shire of Manjimup.

Built in 1947, the Gloucester Tree was one of eight karri trees that between 1937 and 1952 were made relatively easy to climb so that they could be used as fire lookout spots.[2] The suitability of the tree as a fire lookout was tested by forester Jack Watson, who climbed the tree using climbing boots and a belt.[2] It took Watson six hours to climb 58 metres, a difficult climb due to the 7.3 metre girth of the tree and the need to negotiate through limbs from 39.6 metres up.[2]

Another forester, George Reynolds, pegged the ladder and lopped branches to facilitate climbing the tree, and a wooden lookout cabin was built 58 metres above the ground.[2] The Governor-General of Australia, Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, visited the site during construction, and the tree and national park are named in his honour.[2][3]

The wooden lookout cabin was demolished in 1973 for safety reasons, and was replaced with a steel and aluminium cabin and visitors' gallery.[2] Currently the climb is done by stepping on 153 spikes that spiral the tree.

Only 20 percent of visitors climb to the top of the tree; most make it only part of the way before turning back.

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Did you know there are two major electricity markets in Australia - the National Electricity Market running across the east coast, and the Wholesale Electricity Market in Western Australia. Watch our latest video to learn a bit more about how it all works out west!

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SPRINT CAR NEWS TODAY: DOWN UNDER EDITION EPISODE #7

Despite not very much racing down south in Australia and New Zealand there would still be some great action. The Ultimate Sprintcar Championship-South Australia would host the South Australian Title at Murray Bridge Speedway, the SAWA 360 Power Series would be in action at Manjimup Speedway for the Western Australian 360 Title, and Central Motor Speedway would once again have Sprint Cars in the house.

We also want to let our valued followers know that next week we will have a packaged finale for the 2017 North American Sprint Car scene with racing from Arizona and Florida. Hope everyone enjoys!

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