I don’t think the boys realised it at the time, but we did squeeze in an extra historical item without them noticing. They had put  a moratorium on anything of heritage value after the last couple of days steeped in all things old. (I wonder if that includes me). Anyway, we stopped to see the Curtain Fig tree which is thought to be over 500 years old.

The Curtain Fig Tree

It was bigger than you could ever show in a photo, and very, very impressive. It’s called the Curtain Fig because it killed its host tree which then toppled over on an angle and the fig continued to drop its roots down, forming a curtain. We humans get very creative with names, don’t we? On the path back to the car from seeing the giant Fig Tree I saw this pair of (appropriately located) Fig Parrots – a male and female – having a munch on the seeds of a tree.

Fig Parrots

They weren’t the least bit scared of me (and 10 other people) taking their photo.