It is a native of Queensland but grows quickly, is tall and very distinctive ( the trunk of this one is over a metre in diameter)
Early settlers used to plant one on their property as a guide for travellers to indicate where there was habitation. This one is in a churchyard but there is another fairly nearby in what used to be part of the local showground but is now a council community centre and library.
Some snaps from my visit to Sydney yesterday. My son had never visited South Head itself even though he briefly trained at the Navy Base which takes up most of the headland. It was a warmish day ( low 20s - T shirt weather) but very overcast for most of the day.
First a visit to Camp Cove where Captain Phillip first landed with the First Fleet after deciding that Botany Bay was a crap place for a settlement.
The anchor from the Dunbar, a three-masted, full-rigged ship, wrecked at The Gap in 1857 in heavy rain and a strong gale, when all but one of the 122 crew and passengers died.
