Walpole-Nornalup National Park

121 kilometres west of Albany, the Walpole-Nornalup National Park surrounds the tranquil inlets of Walpole and Nornalup. Fed by the freshwater Walpole River, the Walpole Inlet is joined by a natural deep channel to the larger and deeper Nornalup Inlet, fed by the freshwater Deep River and the saltier Frankland River.

Sealers and whalers were the first Europeans to arrive on Walpole's coast in the early 1800's and their glowing reports brought William Preston and his party to officially explore the area in 1837.

Four years later, William Nairn Clark and his party rowed into Nornalup and wrote in his diary; "The sail up was truly delightful. The river actually appeared to be embosomed amongst lofty wodded hills, with tall eucalypt trees close to the water's edge, and crowning the summits of these high hills thus casting a deep gloom over the water and making the scenery the most romantic I ever witnessed in the other quarters of the globe."

Today, the The Walpole-Nornalup National Park is renowned for its natural beauty including four rare and wonderful trees - the red, yellow and rate's tingles, and the red-flowering gum. To the east of Walpoe, the 'Valley of the Giants' (home to the famous Tree Top Walk) gives visitors the chance to experience the awesome sight of the giant red tingle trees with trunks of up to 20 metres in circumference!