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Ecopark The caravan park beside the Tree Top Walk forest Latitude South 34° 59.70' Longitude East 116° 50.75' (see our
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Ecopark The caravan park beside the Tree Top Walk forest Latitude South 34° 59.70' Longitude East 116° 50.75' (see our
small map
below on this page linked to a larger map) |
Valley of the Giants, Western Australia
A tourist centre as a nature base wildlife haven with the mission of promoting global conservation on our planet ark of all animals and plants and the environments on which they and people mutually depend by offering facilities for camping, caravanning, wildlife watching, environmental appreciation and information.
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are two main access routes from Perth to the Valley of the Giants (note that
different times taken and the same distance of 440km for each route are
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fully qualified biologists also reside on site |
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Smaller Map of Valley of the Giants Area |
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Left-click on this Smaller Map to view a Larger Detailed Map of Valley of the Giants Area. The Larger Map might open in Adobe Reader Version X. If so, along the bottom of the Map is a floating Tool Bar which can be activated by hovering the Adobe hand tool over the Larger Map. Left-click on the most right hand button, the Adobe Icon. This displays the usual locked overhead Adobe Tool Bar. Left-click on this Bar's controls (percent enlargement, horizontal & vertical slides and hand tool) to examine the Larger Map in your desired detail. |
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available at our Ecopark comply with the current Western Australian Caravan
Parks and Camping Grounds Act (1995) and its Regulations (1997) and include - safety during bushfire hazard, camp fires are prohibited. On-site vans and linen for hire. Underground power, Ultra violet filtered water-supply. Powered, over-size 10mx15m wet-weather drive-through camping sites suit large caravans and large groups of campers. Tourist and environmental information. Hot showers with always available hot water, Ablution facilities for visitors with special needs, Disposal facility for your portable toilet. Hills TV antenna and booster achieve good TV reception via vertically oriented antennae aimed just above a low saddle-backed ridge forming our valley's North Eastern boundary. UHF (SBS & WIN), VHF (ABC & GWN) and Digital (ABC & SBS) transmit from Mt Barker, 90km distant. Additionally, our vegetation protected sites are open to the sky facilitating satellite TV reception via your portable TV dishes. Our Ecopark's accreditation to operate under relevant Acts and Regulations was published in the Western Australian Government Gazette: (12.05.1995 - pp 1805 - 1806). Obviously, such accreditations are robust if compared with other accreditation schemes of tourism and caravan industry organizations. This homely Caravan Park is operated on private land, owned by the operator. This Caravan Park is not operated on Crown Land. Consequently, this Caravan Park is subject to the W.A. Caravan Parks and Camping Grounds Act (1995) and other relevant Acts and their Regulations. The relevant Acts and Regulations assure patrons of such a caravan park of its compliance with standards of health, safety, security, amenity and service. In order to uphold such standards, intrusive activities that can potentially impact on patrons and wildlife such as loud music, trail-bike riding, electricity generation, offensive behaviour, out of season camp fires and the like are naturally prohibited. |
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From our Ecopark it is 110km west to Pemberton6260, 13km west to Walpole6398, 55km east to Denmark6333 and 110km east to Albany6330. Our Ecopark adjoins the Valley of the Giants Forest of ancient Karri and Tingle trees (Eucalyptus spp.). These trees number among the biggesttrees on the planet. Our Ecopark is 6km from the Valley of the Giants Tree Top Walk through the canopy of the Giants Forest either, via the Highway to the highway standard Valley of the Giants Road 1km to our east or, via the Bibbulmun Walking Track 2km from our Ecopark. This Track extends from Perth to Albany, a distance of approximately 960km. The beaches are Rest Point (16km) on Walpole Inlet, Coalmine (10km) on Nornalup Inlet, Bellanger/the Blue Holes (6km), Conspicuous (11km), Peaceful Bay (12km) and Parry's (30km). The rivers are Shannon (60km), Walpole (15km), Frankland (3km) (NOT Franklin), Bow (13km), Kent (20km) and Denmark (55km). The inlets are Broke (60km),Walpole (15km),Nornalup (13km), Irwin (13km) and Wilson (35km). These maritime and estuarine features share the Southern Ocean with the Antarctic Continent approximately 5000km to the south. The Southern Ocean adjoins the Indian Ocean which stretches along the relatively long Western Australian coastline, to Cape Londonderry (Latitude South 13°44' & Longitude East 126°56' ) in the Timor Sea. |
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Along Western Australia's coastline, water levels are noticeably rising due to global warming caused by Green House Gas Emissions which in turn are being generated by expanding global economies. These are extinguishing human, animal and vegetation life of the planet (www.cosmosmagazine.com Issue 12 Dec 2006/Jan 2007; pp48-59).This is causing horrors and tragedies to all human and other life of our planet. These disasters will worsen if human populations continue to expand. The trading or taxing of Green House Gas Emissions within Australia will represent the first step in salvaging a future for our children. Such a topic should never be used as a political toy in any nation. Although, Australia's international contribution to gaseous emissions is relatively trivial in global terms, Australia's reputation for innovation and example will be further magnified on the World stage when a national scheme is adopted. In turn this will establish a green economy based on the two infrastructures of re-newable energy generation and on the National Broadband Network currently being installed by the Australian Government. Additionally, the NBN will be a cost-effective asset of Australia's National Security. These two infrastructures will generate ecologically sustainable socio-economic benefits that will enable our children to enjoy their future. A social benefit especially to country people will be relatively cheap, quality on-line digital TV and by more effective internet services. The accelerating extermination of all life on our planet represents generally ignored humanitarian crises. These are being caused by un-precedented numbers of people that have never yet before been in occupation of our planet. This latter fact is not being addressed by climate change sceptics. Thus global warming together with over-population and over-exploitation of the planet's finite resources are moral issues that demand multi-lateral resolution by all of humanity collectively with its leaders in commerce, science, politics, religions and cultures. All have the abilities to reverse over-population of the planet. This can be achieved in agreement with the holy writings of antiquity. |
