Boab Tree

Boab trees grow in Northern Australia mainly in the Kimberley Region usually having a bottled shaped trunk.

Notes taken from Wikipedia.
Adansonia gregorri, commonly known as the boab, is a tree in the family Malvaceae.  As with other baobabs, it is easily recognised by the swollen base of it's trunk, which forms a massive caudes, giving the tree a bottle like appearance.  Endemic to Australia, boab occur in the Kimberley region of Western Australia (WA), and east into the Northern Territory (NT).  It is the only baobab to occur in Australia, the others being native to Madagascar (six species) and mainland Africa and the Arabian Peninsula (two species). Boab ranges from 5 to 15 meters in height, usually between 9 and 12 meters, with a broad bottle shaped trunk.  It's trunk base may be extremely large, trunks with a diameter of over five metres have been recorded.  A. gregorii is deciduous, losing it's leaves during the dry winter period and producing new leaves and large white flowers between December and May.

The Boab Prison Tree, Derby WA, is a large hollow Adansonia gregorii (Boab) tree just shouth of Derby, WA.  It's reputed to have been used in the 1890's as a lockup for indigenous Australian prisoners on their way to Derby for sentencing.  It is now a tourist attraction.

In fact, there is no evidence that the Derby Prison Tree was ever used for holding prisoners.

I took this boab tree at Kununurra, Western Australia. 

This boab tree looks healthy due to the grass being watered in the park regularly plus it has leaves not like the last photo.

Below.

I took this Boab tree somewhere in the Kimberley.  I have it pictured in my head where but can't recall the name.

These boab trees are a decent shape but some of them are a bit weird.

Kununurra is marked by those red marks.

Darwin, NT

 Darwin in the Northern Territory tropical climate.  It's Aboriginal name: Garramilla is the capital and largest city of Australia's Northern Territory, located on the shores of Darwin Harbour.

We have been there several times and stayed in our caravan at one of the many caravan parks.  It's a lovely city with about 140,000 people probably a few more now. 

Darwin has a higher percentage of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people than any other Australian capital city, though they still make up a minority of the overall urban population.

Some fishing vessels.

A mural at Darwin Port.

 

Navy ships overlooking Beagle Gulf and to the left the Timor Sea.

A cyclone shelter.  In 1974 on Christmas Day, Darwin was hit with Cyclone Tracy which left a lot of Darwin's building flat.  Devastating it was.  Killed 71 people and destroyed 80% of Darwins building. It left up to 41,000 people homeless.

Frangipani grows well there in Darwin and two colours I managed to find and photograph.