Background Photo - Tasmanian Blue Gum (Eucalyptus globulus)
The date of this photo's first appearance seems to be August, 2001. About five years later, this magnificent work of nature was found to be riddled with rot and had to be cut down. It was possibly the oldest tree in the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens - and my favourite. It may have even predated the Gardens itself, which means the early 1800s or before.
I must have been so much in shock when I saw it on the news as I put it completely out of my mind, and forgot about it until I was at the Gardens for a Treadlightly Festival.
Shock returned in that year of 2007 when I went to stand under it, but couldn't find it anywhere in the bottom of the Gardens. The Treadlightly Festival is held there every year. In fact, some of stalls would have been under it.
Having asked someone about it, I was informed of what happened, bringing back the memory I chose to forget a few years earlier. Now, I can never forget!
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