Herbig's tree...

This tree is on the side of the road just outside Springton, in the eastern Barossa at about lat -34 42 46 long 139 05 32. The tree is just off the road, and is a rather startling object worth a stop. The family after whom it is named came from Gruenberg, Silesia in the kingdom of Prussia. My great great grandmother may have known this family. German Lutherans settled in this area from the 1840s, but the Herbig family lived here from 1855. This was their house.


This is a red gum, E. Camaldulensis, rather deformed now some of the top has come off and regrowth has taken place. But, look at the butt, 20m at least. Back view: more butt, but completely hollow inside, just the place to put the 9 kids. I think it was 9, it may have been more.
Signs: ancestor worship is big in SA. I am into it as far as I can get, pilgrimage after pilgrimage to every stone they ever touched, and some they didn’t.
Just across the road, in the car park is the well and horse trough. This may have been the bathroom too, but what is a hollow log to some is ensuite to others.