Forest! These are a good thirty feet. Well, some of them.
We crossed the top end of the Big Sandy desert. Not much sand, mostly caliche, no tree at all, not even bushy ones. We then entered forest. Trees twenty to thirty feet tall.
Australia is one of the places where baobab trees occur naturally. Scattered among the sapling-like trees are trees with smooth grey bottle-shaped trunks.
At higher elevations these bottle trunks can be four feet in diameter and fifteen feet high. The branches and leaves grow up out of the bottleneck for another six to ten feet.
Mary does the driving. We’re six to ten hours daily on the road. Tomorrow on down the coast.
These are small as baobabs go.
