Kings Park and Botanic Garden
Riverside parkland and botanic garden with bushland trails and a transplanted giant boab tree.
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This guide to Kings Park and Botanic Garden in Perth follows the giant boab tree that now stands near the Two Rivers Lookout, hauled here from the Kimberley on a low-loader in July two thousand eight. It traces the road crews, linesmen, and arborists whose ordinary trade moved a centuries-old giant through downtown Perth, and the Gija people who sent it off with a new name. Best heard standing at the tree itself, looking up into its bare branches.
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