Gloucester national park - Pemberton, Western Australia ????????
This tree climbing is not for people who have weak heart in a high place to be honest ????
No Safety equipment, Only a metal stick as your step to reach the top of the tree & Even a warning sign there is said “ Take your own risk !! “ ???? .
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Anyone who dare with Adrenaline, Give a shout to climbing 53 meters high up to the top of the tree ???? ????.
Gloucester Tree, Pemberton
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Outback Australia Gloucester Tree Climb Pemberton WA
Images of the Gloucester Tree climb in WA from December 08 and January 09 during my road trip from Wollongong to Perth and back.
11,753km later and with the odometer reading 420,000km the trusty Mitsubishi Verada Wagon is still chugging along!
This video specially made for the Scott family whom I met at the top during the December 08 climb.
I then climbed the tree again in January 09 on my return road trip from Perth to Wollongong on the NSW South Coast.
Music from John Denver. It Amazes Me & small section of The Foxfire Suite.
Gloucester Tree, Pemberton 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.
CLIMBING 72M GLOUCESTER TREE - NO SAFETY
The Gloucester tree is a giant karri tree that was used as a fire lookout. Located in the Gloucester National park in Western Australia it is now accessible for tourists. But only 20% of those who attempt to climb it make it to the top. The majority turns back after a little while. Pemberton WA
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Descending the Gloucester Tree at Pemberton Western Australia
Recorded 12.4.2018
'Gloucester Tree' at Pemberton... South Western Australia
'Gloucester Tree' with three Manchester United supporters from Stockport, England ...
RIP - Peter Bugarski
The Gloucester Tree | Pemberton Western Australia
Our family climbing the Gloucester Tree in Pemberton Western Australia on 11.11.2008
Gloucester Tree - Pemberton - Western Australia - Brian Shirtliff
This tree is 61 Metres high and took around 10 minutes to climb!
It was originally used to spot bushfires.
July 30th 2011
Gloucester National Park, WA 2017
Rare ginger lizard swoons in spa bathing spirit ...
Gloucester Tree at Pemberton 1
This gigantic tree at Pemberton is a tourist attraction. Those who managed to climb to the top definitely have overcome the fear of height!
Climbing The Gloucester Tree
The Gloucester Tree is in Gloucester National Park in Pemberton Western Australia. It is one of many trees pegged as fire lookouts in the towering Karri Forest. It was originally named the East Tree but changed to Gloucester Tree after a visit by the Duke of Gloucester in 1947 when he was Governor General of Australia. There are three climbing trees near Pemberton: The Gloucester, Bicentennial and Diamond trees. They are all around 60 to 70 meters to the top!
Australia: Climbing the Gloucester Tree. Stoned.
The ride from Pemberton to Albany, climbing the Gloucester Tree, leaning against Dog Rock and checking out blow holes. Who doesn't love a blow hole?
Gloucester Tree Pemberton Western Australia
Western rosella, Gloucester Tree
This bird is also known as the Stanley rosella, yellow cheeked parakeet or Platycercus icterotis. It is a small parrot from southwest West Australia. This specimen was filmed near the Gloucester Tree, Pemberton.
It is very sociable and seems to have been exposed to food crumbs from people who picnic around the tree. The bird kept inching near the writer to beg for food.
On top of Gloucester Tree 20140113 135937
Climbing the giant karri trees of Western Australia
Deep in the ancient forests of south-west WA are thought to lurk gigantic karri trees, taller than any yet recorded.
The tallest trees are currently alive on the planet are pines: giant coast redwoods (Sequoia sepervirens) that live for more than 1000 years. They occur naturally only in a narrow strip in northern California, and the tallest living individual - 'Hyperion' - stands just over 115m tall in the state's Redwood National Park.
The tallest flowering tree species, however, is the mountain ash (E. regnans), which grows in Victoria and Tasmania. Its status was confirmed in 2008 with a reading of almost 100m, taken using an airborne laser (LIDAR), on a tree called 'The Centurion', south-west of Hobart.
Experts believe, however, there are likely to be karris almost as tall and if they could be found, they'd confirm Western Australia's tallest species of tree is also the world's second tallest flowering tree.
Karri is a prized hardwood thought to live for 300 years in the right conditions, and in past centuries it's been logged extensively. It's the tallest of a suite of remarkable eucalypt species - including jarrah (E. marginata), marri (Corymbia calophylla) and three different types of tingle (E. jacksonii, E. guilfoylei and E. brevistylis) - that grow only in Australia's far south-west and nowhere else in the world. Karri forests now cover less than 200,000ha, about one-fifth of which is virgin growth, and most of it is managed by DEC. SUBSCRIBE: The official channel of Australian Geographic magazine.
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Lookout! Gloucester Tree Climbers
Kitspirational chat from the TOP of the Gloucester Tree in the Karri Forrest Western Australia ♥ kitscott.com