Valley of the Giants
Ecopark

The caravan park beside
the Tree Top Walk forest

Latitude South 35° 00' Longitude East 116° 49'

(see our map below on this page)

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.

 

There 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 approximate):

Route 1: Start on Western Australia's South Western Highway (National Highway 20). Proceed via Bunbury, Manjimup, Walpole, then Valley of the Giants. This represents 7 hours; an hour longer than an approximately equal distance for -

Route 2:  Start on Western Australia's Albany Highway (National Highway 30). Proceed via Mount Barker, Denmark, Bow Bridge then Valley of the Giants. This represents 6 hours.

 

Eco-activities are available in school holidays and 
we have the added value of having 
fully qualified biologists permanently on site

 

Click here to view our Photo Album ...


 

 

 

Services available at our Ecopark include -
 
Powered and un-powered camp sites. Bring your own axe or saw to cut your free firewood. For the sake of
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.
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 acts as a living window which looks out into a sheltered  valley of 45 acres (18.6ha) within Western Australia's Southern Forests. It is 5km directly north of the spectacular Conspicuous surfing beach which is well used by experienced surfers; and its lookout offers reliable views of whales during winter. Our Ecopark fronts Australia's National Highway One (Western Australia's South Coast Highway), on the north-western corner of the highway's intersection with Boxhall road. Our Ecopark is 110km west to Pemberton 6260, 13km west to Walpole 6398, 55km east to Denmark 6333 and 110km east to Albany 6330. Our Ecopark adjoins the Valley of the Giants Forest of ancient Karri and Tingle trees (Eucalyptus spp.). These trees number among the biggest trees 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 sealed 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. Our Ecopark is central to nearby beaches, rivers and inlets. 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.


 
The Timor Sea and the Southern and Indian Oceans provide winter  habitat for whales seeking refuge from the harsh Antarctic winters. During the summer months, these whales return to their ancestral Antarctic feeding habitat where very modern technologies are being used to atrociously hunt these vulnerable, highly intelligent, air-breathing mammals beyond the brink of extinction. Antarctic whaling and industrialization of the Australian coastline are  compromising biological diversity, whale conservation and local whale-watching tourism. The last activity is reliant on whales being un-afraid of people in boats. In stark contrast, whaling causes whales to be afraid of people in boats. Thus, whaling in all oceans of the planet should cease in order that whales will survive and will continue to be enjoyed by future generations of people. Along Western Australia's coastline, water levels are being noticeably raised by global warming caused by green house gas emissions which in turn are being generated by expanding global economies which additionally are extinguishing human, animal and vegetation life of the planet. Initiating of the trading of Green House Gas Emissions within Australia would represent the  first step in salvaging a future for our children. Although, Australia's contribution to gaseous emissions would be relatively trivial in global terms, Australia's contribution to innovation and example would be gigantic on the World stage. Doubtless, commencement of emissions trading (nationally and internationally) would give our children a hope to enjoy their future. The accelerating extermination of life on our planet is an un-precedented moral issue that is a manifestation of the un-precedented numbers of people that have never yet before been in occupation of the planet. Such an issue should be multi-laterally addressed urgently by all of humanity in collusion with its leaders, emphatically with those in commerce, science, politics and religions.
 

  

It is also relevant to inform that our Ecopark complies with the current W.A. Caravan Parks and Camping Grounds Act (1995) and its Regulations (1997).
Following two years of unrestricted public scrutiny and comment,
this Park'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 organisations.
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 out of season camp fires, loud music, trail-bike riding, electricity generation, offensive behaviour and the like are certainly prohibited.

 


 


Valley of the Giants Ecopark
6398 National Highway One
(West Australia's South Coast Highway)
Valley of the Giants
Western Australian Post Code 6333
 
Phone/Fax : 
WA Free Call :
(08) 9840 1313
1800 813 136

Our email: info@valleyofthegiantsecopark.biz

Our Domain website: www.valleyofthegiantsECOPARK.biz 

Our Mirror Websites:
 
www.pemberton6260.info www.walpole6398.info
www.denmark6333.info www.albany6330.info
www.biggesttrees.com www.highwayo1.com
www.highwayone.info www.whalersgetoutofantarctica.info
www.on45acresinsouthernforests.info  


Selection of locally informative Websites (remember when viewing any of the websites below you can easily return to VOGE website by clicking on  return arrow at top left hand corner of your screen):
 
www.burtonrealty.com.au www.dre.com.au
www.cartersdenmark.com.au www.scp.net.au
www.jossharman-assoc.com.au www.raywhite.realestate.com.au/denmark
www.walpolerealestate.com.au www.wowwilderness.com.au
www.dinosaurworld.com.au www.coalminebeach.com.au
www.madfishing.com www.restpoint.com.au
www.walpole.org.au www.dec.wa.gov.au
www.albanywhaletours.com.au