This rare example of an Aboriginal scarred tree is one of the most accessible in eastern Australia. On the trunk of the redgum tree is an oval-shaped scar, left when an enormous sheet of bark was removed to make a canoe. There are indications that the bark was cut using a stone ax. The height of the cutting shows that one man stood on the shoulders of another to take the bark from the best position. Believed to be around 200 years old, the tree has narrowly escaped destruction several times….
