Sacred Trees in Goolwa, South Australia

I did some research for your peace garden in Goolwa for the State or Sacred South Australian Trees. It seems to me that the Canoe Tree, on the Currency Creek Road, a River Red Gum Tree, is the closest that I found for your area. On the Famous Australian Trees website, I found the following and I quote:

Famous South Australian Trees
http://www.southaustralianhistory.com.au/trees.htm

"Canoe Trees.
Whether alive or dead, canoe trees are the remnants of an important Aboriginal industry. Most of them can be found along Lakes Albert and Alexandrina, the Coorong and the River Murray and its tributaries.

It was mainly the river red gum, (Eucalyptus camaldulensis), from which the Aborigines cut and peeled long sheets of bark to make their canoes.

The art of making these rafts was practised by most Aborigines in Australia from the rivers to the coasts. "


I also found some other 'Famous Australian Trees' web links

http://www.touringaustralia.de/Trees/Licuala-ramsayi.php

http://www.mdavid.com.au/trees/unusualtrees.html

http://www.mdavid.com.au/trees/bigtrees.html

http://www.touringaustralia.de/trees.php

Cheers Julia