After my quick visit to Busselton, I set off to Walpole via Pemberton as I wanted to ride the old tram there and was also looking to take a more scenic route south. It turned out to be my favourite drive in Western Australia. After leaving Busselton, you enter into big farming country.

Many individual fields have more cattle than we ever had on our whole farm.

As you get nearer Pemberton, the forests begin.

In this part of the country many of the roads are dirt tracks.

The Pemberton Tramway is tourist railway that commenced operations in 1995. It is based at the old Pemberton railway yard. The railway was built to supply the Pemberton Saw Mill with timber to produce sleepers for the Trans-Australian Railway. It continued to be used to haul timber right up until last year when the saw mill finally closed. The mill had been operating 24 hours a day continuously since it was built in 1913. Pemberton is now primarily a tourist town.

The trams were built in the 1980’s specifically to carry tourists.

The trams travel 10km out to Warren River Bridge and back again.

The trams stop at the Warren River Cascades on the way out.

After this interesting detour, I finally set off for Walpole.