SW Tour - Day 14

Early start today was required to make our time slot at Forest Adventures, a high ropes course in a Tuart forest near Busselton just over an hour's drive away. The temperature was continuing to climb with forecast high in the mid 30's.

After a safety briefing followed by a competency check we were let loose on the courses. With 6 courses on offer, our group chose to start at course 3 the family course. Having 7 people in our gang it was always going to be hard to stick together. It was an interesting course - at one stage we had to ride a bike across a bridge! There were lots of flying foxes.

Ella and Katy were in their element enjoying the experience. Andy was keeping up, I was bringing up the rear. Ashley and Nathan were enjoying themselves and Annwen was having fun too! Personally I found it difficult as my knee wouldn't bend enough to be comfortable to get on the flying foxes.

Ella, Katy and Andy headed off on course 4 high - requiring to climb 18m up a tree using three ladders! Meanwhile Annwen and her kids chose the course 4 low. Both course 4's were entirely flying foxes so I skipped these.

Ella by this stage was pumped and convinced Andy to do course 6 the adrenaline course! A challenging course with a an interesting climb up the tree to the first platform. Katy decided to do course 5 which began with a tall rock climbing wall to reach the first platform. I shadowed her from beneath helping at one point when she was too light to get across on a flying fox type challenge. Meanwhile Annwen and co conquered the course 4 high before calling it a day.

Andy and Ella finished off with course 5. Andy needed saving at one point where he missed holding on to the spiders web and lost his swinging motion.

Everyone was spent by the end. It was roasting hot in the forest. Time to move on to our last campsite at Peppermint Grove Beach. The campground here was lovely - large grassed area under huge gum tress. Lunch and ice creams helped us recover. Still hot and bothered we walked to the beach to cool off. It was both beautiful and refreshing.

Back at the campground Katy loved the big swing, BBQ was cooked for dinner and more time for cards followed by a lovely sunset.