The Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park stretches for 120 kilometres along the coast between Cape Naturaliste (near Dunsborough) and Cape Leeuwin (near Augusta).
 Features of the park include rugged sea cliffs, windswept granite headlands, surfing and swimming beaches.
 The park is extremely accessible with most roads being sealed and the majority of gravel roads accessible to conventional vehicles.
 A variety of walking trails including the Cape to Cape walk provide access right into the heart of the park.
 During the winter months humpback and southern right whales can be seen from various vantage points along the coast and in spring a large variety of wildflowers put on a floral display.
 Rock formations such as Canal Rocks, are very popular. Canal rocks is a series of granitic rocks which jut out into the ocean and are separated by a series of canals that the sea has hollowed out.
  A boardwalk provides visitors with great access and views.

 Boranup Karri Forest, within the Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park, lies between Caves Road and the coast, and creates a powerful contrast with the rest of the coastline.
 Tall pale-barked karri trees, reaching 60 metres or more high, dominate the hilly slopes and valleys. Gravel roads suitable for two-wheel-drive vehicles wind through the forest to picnic and camping spots.
 A short walk takes you to Boranup Lookout, which gives sweeping views over the forest and the coast west to Hamelin Bay.

 Boranup Karri Forest is an extraordinary place for several reasons other than its sheer beauty.
 This is the furthest west that karri, the third tallest tree in the world, grows. The Boranup Forest is isolated from the main body of the karri belt, more than 100 kilometres to the east, by the grey infertile sands and lower rainfall of the Donnybrook Sunklands.
 Elsewhere in the South-West karri grows almost exclusively on deep red clay loams. At Boranup it grows in limestone-based soils.

 The Southern Forests area of our South West is well known for its majestic karri forests.
The Brockman, Beedelup, Gloucester and Warren National Parks are excellent examples of the flora and fauna that typify these forests.

 Growing up to 90 metres tall the smooth barked karri tree (Eucalyptus Diversicolor) is the tallest tree in Western Australia and one of the world’s tallest hardwood trees.

 They are typically found between Manjimup and Denmark but outlying populations are found as far west as Margaret River, in the Boranup forest, and as far east as the Porongurup National Park.

 Covering 2,982 hectares the Warren National Park is in the heart of the Southern Forests about 10 minutes drive south west of Pemberton.
 It protects an area of virgin karri forest that follows the valley of the Warren River.
 Two scenic drives, the Heartbreak and Maidenbush follow the river and offer brilliant views over magnificent karri trees, river banksias, peppermints and wattles.
 The rapids of the Heartbreak Crossing and Warren Lookout are good stopping places.

 Warren National Park includes the Dave Evans Bicentennial tree, the tallest of the three fire lookout trees in the Southern Forests area at 74 metres tall.

 Several walking trails and camping facilities ensure that the solitude of the karri forest is accessible and available to be enjoyed.

 There are picnic tables, toilets, lookouts and barbecues within the Warren National Park.

 East of Walpole, only 10 minutes from Nornalup, Bow Bridge and Peaceful Bay, in the Walpole-Nornalup National Park.

 The park is nearly 20,000 hectares of towering karri and tingle forests to coastal heath. The rugged coastline, peaceful inlets and rivers are a major feature of the park's beauty.
 The Park has long been one of the area's most popular tourist destinations.

 The Tree Top Walk, is a walkway that rises up to 38m above the forest. All ages can view the canopy of the magnificent tingle forest. Visitors get a different perspective on the shapes, sounds and movement of the forest.

 Below, a boardwalk winds though a grove of veteran tingle trees known as the Ancient Empire.
This area, and the carpark are suitable for wheelchair access.
 Picnic facilities and toilets, are conveniently located throughout.

 The Walpole-Nornalup National Park is the only place where the red tingle tree (Eucalyptus Jacksonii) is found. They are the largest based of all the eucalypts with a girth of up to 26 metres.
 Growing up to 75 metres tall this buttressed, rough barked tree, can live to over 400 years old.
 There is also a yellow tingle tree (Eucalyptus Guilfoyle) which doesn’t grow as wide as the red tingle tree.
 Tingle trees are often ‘hollowed out’ by fire and fungal attack however their structure means that they can continue to.
 An example of this is the Giant Tingle Tree near Walpole, other examples can be found along the Ancient Empire Walk at the Valley of the Giants.

 Tuart Forest is one of the rarest eco systems left on earth and is only found along the Swan Coastal Plain from Jurien Bay to Busselton.
 The dominant species within this forest are the tuart tree or Eucalyptus Gomphocephala.

 Tuarts have a grey bark and non-uniform leaves, which are varyingly elongated and spiral-shaped.
 They can grow up to 33 metres high, 10 metres in girth and 500 years of age. They will only grow on coastal limestone and can tolerate some salt in the soil.

 In the 1830’s it was recorded that the timber from the tuart was highly valued by millrights, shipwrights and wheelrights as it is almost impossible to split or splinter the timber. The tuart forest within Australia’s South West is protected by the Tuart Forest National Park and is the largest area of pure tuart remaining in the world.
 The park is habitat for a number of rare and endangered species including the Carnaby’s Black Cockatoo, Chuditch, Brush-tailed Phascogale, Western Ring-tailed Possum and Brush Wallaby.
 The abundance of possums can be contributed to the gnarly hollows common on most tuarts, which provide plenty of nests, and the understorey of peppermint trees which are their major source of food.

 Right on Pemberton’s door step is the Gloucester National Park, home to the most famous karri of all, the Gloucester Tree.
 At 60 metres tall the Gloucester Tree towers above Pemberton and used to serve as a fire lookout, now it’s a scenic spot for visitors to enjoy.

 For those not keen on heights a number of walks start and finish at the Gloucester Tree. The Bibbulmun Track also passes through.

 To the south west of the town is the Cascades, where the Lefroy Brook flows over a series of rocky shelves. The gentle flow of mid summer becomes a turbulent torrent in winter.
 This popular spot is ideal for a picnic, a short walk or to try your hand at fly fishing. There are picnic tables, toilets, lookouts and barbecues at both the Gloucester Tree and the Cascades.

 Leeuwin Naturaliste Treks offer minimum impact walks along Australia's environmentally sensitive South-West coastline.
 Experience the rugged beauty from Cape Naturaliste to Cape Leeuwin, while traversing sections of the spectacular Leeuwin-Naturaliste Ridge.
 With the world renowned Margaret River wine region at its centre, this rugged piece of Australia’s coastline is as diverse as it is spectacular.
 From pockets of giant Karri forest to windswept limestone cliffs, discover where fresh water creeks meet pristine beaches. Walk through expansive coastal heath, ancient dune systems and rugged granite coastline. Experience the regions unique flora and fauna and discover its fascinating geology.