At Blackwall, Tasmania

Blackwall is down the Tamar River not far from home.  The town overlooks part of the Tamar River, there is no beach but in the foreground of the photo there are swans, I did see a pair but that is all, they were not close enough for a photo.

We have been sitting in the car at Blackwall a couple of times lately.

Blackwall was named after the River Thames in England. During the 19th century, Blackwall was an active maritime and shipbuilding site.  The second largest ship built in 19th century Tasmania, the 547-ton barque Harpley, was launched here in 1847.  It was constructed using native Tasmania eucalyptus (eucalyptus regnans or swamp gum). A small ship is being attended to below.

The Harpley sailed to London, it had passengers and also sailed to various places on Australian waters.  I can't find a photo of it in my research.

We sat here and ate our lunch one day the other week.  We bought lunch at Exeter nearby which was a Scallop pie each and a cream bun.

                    The date palms, the fairly new pathway. 

This is where the ships were built and this one is small and being attended to.

A large rhododendron growing in the area.

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.