Cannon-ball Tree

This peculiar tree grows its pink flowers alongside its seed cases (that look like cannon balls) directly out of the trunk. The leaves grow happily undisturbed at the top.

Great Heroic Tales and Gardens, Too

September 5th 2014
We had booked into the Darwin Bombing Experience that Ros and Arthur highly recommended for this morning, so we had to get up early at 6.45am. The guide and owner, Gary, had arranged to pick us up at the Skycity Casino, where we could leave the car for the four hours we’d be away. We then collected another couple in the highly individual minibus, with its bullet holes and “1942” number plate ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Darwin

Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more

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