the Herbig Tree. A River Red Gum estimated to be 300 to 500 years old

this hollow tree served as a home for 27 year old Friedrich Herbig and his 18 year old wife from 1855-1860. The first two of her 16 children were born here. He then built a two room pine and pug hut nearby and later a stone cottage. It is amazing how it continues to live and inside there is a display of their history and photos of the family

[Luke]

Strange looking tree but I like it.

[Kerri Michaels]

nice

[Veena Gupta]

A Fav. Lovely old tree. Our banyan tree spreads a lot.

[gloria jones]

Great captures

[Pyrrhula]

Stunting tree and two great captures to show it.

[Dianne]

Wow - tough characters and very interesting to see.

[Anna]

Fascinating! Thanks for sharing some of the history of this amazing tree!

[Babs]

Super shot and interesting story too. Good to see it is fully air-conditioned.

[Chris K]

@veengupta thanks for the fav Veena. I love Banyan trees. They are amazing how wide they spread.

[Chris K]

@padders @moviegal1 @seattlite @pyrrhula @dide @seanna @onewing

thanks all. Glad to show you one of the sights around our fair city

[Leslie]

very cool tree

[Chris K]

@lesip it sure is. When I was little I thought it would be wonderful to live in a tree but not so sure this one would have been to comfortable in the winter or the extreme heat of summer. People were very tough in those early days.

[Susan Klassen]

Wow - that's quite a tree ... never seen one like it before!