The Australian Aborigines used to make canoes by cutting bark from trees. This tree is located at Finniss on the main road between Strathalbyn and Victor Harbour. Unfortunately, vandals ring barked it late in the 1990s. It has been wrapped in a water conducting material in an effort to enable the sap to continue to rise, and still appears to be alive. It was the wrong time of the day when I took this photograph, so it's not one of my better efforts.
This tree is located a couple of kilometres down a side road in the Finniss area. My brother's teenagers knew where it was and urged us to make the detour, which was well worth it. There were two trees quite close together which had had native canoes carved from them. Both trees were dead, but this one had the light on it from the right direction, and the creek in the background made for a really good photograph.
