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Heritage Raptor Wildlife Centre
has a collection of birds of prey
and gives eagle-flying displays.
E Margaret River Gallery
Shop 4 no. 1 Charles West Ave. Tel (08)
9757 2729. Open 10am–5pm Mon–
Sat, 11am–3pm Sun. Closed 1 Jan,
Good Fri, 25 Dec. 7
O Eagles Heritage Raptor
Wildlife Centre
341 Boodjidup Rd. Tel (08) 9757 2960.
Open 10am–4:15pm (last adm).
Closed Fri (except WA school hols),
Good Fri, 25 Dec. & 7
Hilltop view of picturesque Bridgetown
Environs
Eight km (5 miles) north of Jigsaw Gallery, which has hole on the Donnelly River. The
Margaret River stands the region’s hundreds of puzzles. adjacent One-Tree Bridge is the
first homestead, Ellensbrook, Sutton’s Lookout, off Philips site where early settlers felled a
built by pioneer Alfred Bussell in Street, offers panoramic views huge karri and used it to carry a
the 1850s. The stone cottage is of the town and surrounding bridge across the river. Nearby
close to a forest trail which leads countryside. The Blackwood are the Four Aces, four giant karri
to the pretty Meekadarribee Falls. River and local jarrah and marri trees in a straight line, thought
Margaret River’s outlying forests afford opportunities for to be up to 300 years old.
wineries are very popular. Many, walks and drives, and several
from Vasse-Felix, the oldest, to river-based activities, including
the large Leeuwin Estates canoeing and marron fishing. 9Pemberton
Winery, offer tastings.
* 1,400. @ n Brockman St (08) 9776
8Manjimup 1133. ∑ pembertonvisitor.com.au
At the heart of karri country,
* 5,000. @ n Giblett St (08) 9771
1831. ∑ manjimupwa.com Pemberton has the look and
feel of an old timber town.
If you are travelling south from The Pemberton Tramway,
Perth, Manjimup acts as the originally built to bring the
gateway to the great karri forests trees to mills in town, now takes
for which the southwest is so visitors through the forests.
famous. The town was settled in The Pemberton Pioneer
the late 1850s, and has been Museum is a fascinating tribute
associated with the timber to the pioneers of the area.
industry ever since. Manjimup
Timber Park has a Timber has a Timber
T Timber Parkimber Park E Pemberton Pioneer Museum
Museum, Historical Hamlet and Brockman St. Tel (08) 9776 1133.
Ellensbrook Pioneer Homestead, near the Bunnings Age of Steam Museum. Open daily. Closed Good Fri, 25 &
town of Margaret River A sculpture of a woodsman at the 26 Dec. Donations. 7
entrance commemorates the
7Bridgetown region’s timber industry Environs
pioneers. Southeast of the town lies
* 4,500. @ n 154 Hampton St (08)
9761 1740. ∑ bridgetown.com.au Gloucester National Park,
E Manjimup Timber home to the famous giant
Nestled amid rolling hills on & Heritage Park karri, the Gloucester Tree. At
the banks of Blackwood River, Cnr Rose & Edwards sts. 61 m (200 ft), it is one of the
Bridgetown began as a single Tel (08) 9771 7777. highest fire look-out trees
one-room homestead in the Open 9am–8pm in the world. Southwest
1850s. It was built by settler daily. Closed 25 of Pemberton is Warren
John Blechynden and can still Dec. 7 National Park with its
be seen standing next to the cascades, swimming
second home he built, Bridgedale Environs holes and fishing
House. Both are National About 25 km (16 miles) spots. Attractive
Trust properties. west of Manjimup on Beedelup
The town’s visitors’ centre is Graphite Road lies National Park is
home to its municipal history Glenoran Pool, a Sculpture of a woodsman northwest of
museum and the unusual Brierly pretty swimming at Manjimup Timber Park Pemberton.