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Firstly, where ever you are and read this
forum post, Happy Australia Day and enjoy this special day that symbolized back in 1788 the start of our Great Nation… Australia.
Nearly all readers of this
forum have one very special bond, a love and respect of the Great Outdoors and more often than not, are drawn back again and again to our world famous Aussie Outback. If you are like me, that red sand under your feet, seeing the shimmer on a gibber-covered landscape, laying back in the swag and gazing at night skies like you have never seen before are more than just that; this is the true symbol of what the Outback is like.
One very such true icon of our Australian Outback is a special tree that to the casual observer is just another she oak as the wind blows through its leaves.
In anyone’s terms, 500 years is a very long time to live and if any tree lived that long it must be a giant. Not so in the case of Acacia peuce, or one of the common names as it is known, the Waddy Wood. This is a tree you can call the a real Aussie battler, as it lives year in and out with summer temperatures far in excess of 40° C, winter temperatures quite often below zero, and survive on as little as 150mm of rainfall per year.
If you would like to read the full story on this great tree, you can read it here on my latest Blog…
The Waddy Wood
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For me this tree deserves an Australia Day Award.
Show your support for this tree and please share images that you have taken and show the world what can be seen nowhere else, but on the margins of another true draw card, the
Simpson Desert.
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Happy Australia Day
Stephen