
Protruding vee of branch which has been inserted into the side of this ancient gum tree at the settlement site, and it is pointing down to a hidden underground cave entrance. (Picture below)

I have many photos of this type of indicators protruding from the sides of old pine trees in forests in the USA. A similar Jesuit version in Colorado U.SA (right)

3/11/05 I noticed the indicator branch protruding from this gum tree (right) several days ago. It is pointing down to a hidden cave entrance.
24/4/006 The old gum tree above on the right had another secret now revealed. It is a West Australian variety. Did the Jesuits plant this tree as a seedling because they had it aboard their boat and it was convenient, or was it because it was so different to Victorian gum trees? and more valuable as a marker.
It has bunches of magnificent gum nuts on its branches and is definitely of West Australian origin according to a Gum tree expert.
A month later, another surprise from one of a pair of trees straddling a cave entrance.
The bent branch pointing towards you is a different variety to the rest of the tree. Its a graft and the leaves are double the size of the rest of the gum tree on its other branches and it is shaped in such a manner to suggest that a cave entrance runs underground just below.

A few paces further up the driveway leading to the Settlement Site are two huge ancient trees that look like Moonahs which also are 3.25 paces apart and also have their rear branches removed, and the front branches have been trained to point downwards to a second hidden cave entrance.

As you trudge up the bitumen path to the graves and lookout and well tended lawns and graves at Collins Settlement Site after checking out the two pairs of trees at the entrance, one pair are gum trees and the other pair look like huge Moonah trees to me, you are walking over an unknown historical period in Australia’s past which is potentially a leading tourist site of world wide interest. On your left are the high fences of private properties continuing for maybe 80-90 yards up the pathway to the Settlement Site which contains graves containing the remains of early pioneers, a scenic lookout and a neatly grassed in area with a ring of ancient trees and several benches providing shade and a breather on a hot summer’s day.
This pathway leading up from the entrance has quite a story.
Firstly, there are 6 cave entrances crossing under this path, from right to left.
Secondly, some of the gridded 2 cubic foot deposits are also by chance under the bitumen of this driveway and the hidden houses on the left. Being every 6.5 paces in a grid pattern 9feet deep and extending as far as and across Nepean Highway.









