It is Easter Monday, and am only now getting around to updating re Denmark WA, Easter is always very busy!.
We left Perth the Monday before Easter and drove to Denmark via Mount Barker (best time to go - minimum traffic) and turned up at the cottage about 5pm, and what a beautiful location. Set in a lovely rural setting approx. 12km west of Denmark. The cottage itself is the old Telegraph Cottage and it has been beautifully fitted out and has a lovely verandah for watching the sunset through the trees and the antics of the dozens of Blue Wrens which come and feed on your front doorstep. The sheep and donkey also come and visit.
Tuesday went into Denmark for coffee and visited the Visitors centre (as you do) and when we came out there were three Hot Rods in the carpark towing caravans of all things, apparantley on their way to Bunbury for a get together (these guys were from NSW - so one hell of a drive!) Over the next few days we saw a number of Hot Rods passing through from Victoria and even Tasmania, obviously all heading for Bunbury.
The Visitors centre has a claim to fame in that it houses the worlds largest water barometer (The Bert Bolle Barometer - see photo) It is recorded in the Guiness Book of Records
Another place of ineterest is the Valley of the Giants Tree Top Walk just out of Walpole - it is a very easy walk and you are in the treetops without climbing a step, great. The highest point is 40m above ground.
The Denmark area is a lot more laid back than other areas of the South West and better for it. The wines are excellent the food is good and not expensive, it is a very relaxing and beautiful area of our state.
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