naturally occuring bonsai and a really brilliant day

GrumbleGuts

I have just come back from a birthday party for a 5 year old at a place called murray falls. Now murray falls is situated in a granite range in far north queensland between the towns of cardwell and tully. The granite exists as gigantic boulders through which cuts the upper murray river.

In the cracks between the granite were trees (mostly eucalypts and tetrees) everywhere. Four and five inch trunks which bend with the flow of water because in the wet season they are pushed with the flood which then acts like a predominant wind. I have taken some photos of them, which i will post as soon as my wife lets me have access to the camera.

Then the party moved to the child's grandmother's house. At her land (40 acres) were thousands of trees again tetrees, eucalytps and north queensland maples. All with think trunks, some of them are winding and twisted in the most bizzare manner. I mentioned to her that some of these would make excellent bonsai and she told me i could take as many as I wanted, whenever i wanted. Most of them are about 2-3inches at the base and some are growing out of the sides of vertical cliffs that have been created by failed dams.

The weekend after next i am going back with a mate and we are collecting the best examples. There are literally thousands of samples of australian natives there and I can have as many as I want. I will post what i collect when I get them.

After giving away all my trees two and a half years ago, I feel I can get something back at last.

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kingkong

I am booking my flight as I read this....can you pick me up at the airport Guts? Sounds like you have come upon the mother load. Good hunting and send pictures in case my wife tears up my tickets .

PS, no sign at pick up necessary Guts, I will have a runny nose and a brown bear suite on...no shoes

GrumbleGuts

Thanks KK I hope your cold gets better. (if that's what you were saying)

OK I have the photos of the trees in the rock, but last time I tried to post photos on here they went into the thread as photos not thumbnails.

How does one manage the thumbnail plan of action.

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kcpoole

Wgen you are typing the post, Scroll down andyou will se button "Manage attachments"

Then you will be able to upload the images ( up to 6 per post)

Make sure they are less then 75KB and smaller than 800*600
Waiting with interest

Ken

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GrumbleGuts

Here are some of the pictures form the waterfalls. There are literally hundreds of these trees within about 100 square metres.


I only looked at the ones in my IMMEDIATE vicinity because my children were swimming in the creek, and they are particularly juicy specimens for crocodiles.


There are literally hundreds of examples ofthese trees that are effectively naturally occurring bonsai.

Sadly they are in a national park.

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