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Black Boy beneath the stars

I captured this photo whilst recently camping in the Bunya Mountains (Queensland Australia).The morning after I took this I bumped into one of the national park...
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I captured this photo whilst recently camping in the Bunya Mountains (Queensland Australia).The morning after I took this I bumped into one of the national parks wildlife officers who was looking up at this tree.. He noticed my camera and asked if I had seen any baby owls up in there.. The mother sometimes drops them off up into the Black Boy (Xanthorroea Australis)
He told me that this tree is over 900 years old and the one beside it is over 1000.

The last time I came up here in 2009 they had recently been set on fire to help them flower. I find these trees fascinating
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