Day 5 - from Bunbury to Pemberton

First stop, right after breakfast, is the Dolphin Discovery Center in Bunbury, located in Koombana Bay. Wild dolphins swim right up to the shore, where you can stand in the water with them. Most dolphins also return to this area regularly.

The center also takes care of small turtles until they are ready to paddle out into the open sea.

After that, we drove along the coast heading south to Busselton Jetty, a pier that stretches 1.7km into the ocean. In certain sections, you can access smaller platforms that allow for snorkeling. We immediately took advantage of this. However, the water was quite chilly.😅 Busselton Jetty is also very popular among fishermen.

If you don't want to walk the entire way on the platform, you can pay extra to take a small train to the end.

At the end of the pier, there is also an underwater observatory where you can observe the fish from several meters below the water's surface (additional cost).

After this wonderful cool-down, we continued on the Caves Road, which gets its name from the many caves that can be visited, to Pemberton, where we visited the Gloucester Tree.

The Gloucester Tree, at 72m, is the tallest tree in the world used for fire observation. If you dare, you can climb up the iron rungs that protrude from the tree (without safety measures) up to a height of 53m. At 53m, there is a platform. We at least tried.😝

In Pemberton itself, we also discovered a small railway graveyard, where you can admire old rusty locomotives and wagons.

We found our sleeping spot on the outskirts of Pemberton, at a cozy little forest campsite.