This is famous the Boab Tree / Adansonia gregorii (Gija Jumulu) located at one of the car parks near the Botanic Garden in Kings Park.  It has been moved 3200km away from Warmun in WA’s Kimberley region to here. - Amazing!!!

The Gija Jumulu, SiewPeng and Colin.

This tree was estimated 750 years old, 36 tonnes weight, with 2.5 meters diameter trunk, and relocated due to works on the Great Northern Highway.  It took days (14 July 2008 to 19 July 2008) on its journey to arrive at Kings Park.

25 metre truck trailer and two traffic lanes were required to transport this giant boab tree with police escorts. :O

[Boabs are deciduous trees that are highly valued by Indigenous people for their edible fruits, medicinal uses and water-holding properties. …

…Now known as ‘Gija Jumulu’, the tree is a special gift to all Western Australians from the local Indigenous people, the Gija, who are the traditional land owners. They performed a farewell ceremony to the Jumulu (boab in Gija language) on Monday, 14 July 2008. …

…Along the way, almost entire towns came out to see Gija Julumu and people honked horns and waved the whole way down. The boab arrived at its new home in the heart of Kings Park on Saturday, 19 July. ] - from Botanic Garden and Parks Authority Website.

This is the signboard telling the story of Kings Park.  Kings Park was officially opened on 10 August 1895 whereas Botanic Garden was opened on 1965.

First I was confused about “Kings Park” and “Botanic Garden“.  How are they related?  And where are their boundaries?  From Wikipedia - “The botanic garden is an 18 hectare site within the park“.  It answers my question.

It is now known as Western Australian Botanic Garden and has a collection of 2000 species of Western Australian flora.

We haven’t finished exploring the entire botanic garden, because we wanted to look for the sunset.

Are these flowers Banksia?  They are in red and light orange.

We heard about this Boab tree before we came here, and we were not sure where it is in the huge Kings Park.  We explored and we found it.

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Last night, I had a chat with my brother, he told me about his experience with the tour guide when he visited China.  I told him that I like to travel without tour guide because I like to explore places myself.

Most of the time, after I have visited a place I will do some research on Google or Wikipedia, then I might try to find it on Google map to have an idea about its shape and topology.  If I visit that place again in the future, I would be able to explore it better.

Sometimes, the things that were discovered, are not on the web but will be stored in our memory and accumulated as experiences.