Cat's Claw, a vine introduced by our early European settlers to create hedgerows, has become a weed and established itself along the water ways. It climbs over everything and in times strangles the host plant. This beautiful bower is all that is left of a native she-oak tree. All but the trunk of the she-oak is gone allowing the cat's claw to display its magnificence. A consequence of this process was the massive destruction caused in our record Australia Day floods in January as the dead trees were swept away taking with them fences and opening the waterways to massive erosion. It was amazing to see how water courses change as a result.
