The Prison Tree

We left Broome today for Bell Gorge camp on the Gibb River road.  It was a long dusty drive with spectacular scenery.  We stopped at the Prison tree at the beginning of the road and another tourist took this shot.

Backblipping now as the wiffy in Broome in the apartment was non existent and I had no service on the dongle.  Just doing some fill in in the lounge before the flight home.

This is what Wikki has to say about the prison tree.

The Boab Prison Tree, Derby is a large hollow Adansonia gregorii (Boab) tree just south of Derby, Western Australia. It is reputed to have been used in the 1890s as a lockup for indigenous Australian prisoners on their way to Derby for sentencing. It is now a tourist attraction.[1]
In fact, there is no evidence that the Derby Prison Tree was ever used for holding prisoners.[2]
In recent years a fence was erected around the tree to protect it from too much human traffic, carving of initials etc., and compacting of surrounding soil by vehicles.