Boab Prison Tree, Wyndham

The holes in the limbs indicated that it was hollow, and the police cut out an opening and had a cell with a capacity of more than 100 square feet, where the natives were locked up at night.

One of the pair was a magnificent specimen of a man well over six feet high with well shaped arms and legs and a blacksmith's chest.

In the roaring days this was the lock-up of the Hillgrove Police Station; prisoners being put inside to await transport to their place of trial.

The words "Hillgrove Police Station" are cut deeply into the soft bark of the tree, together with the names and initials of hundreds of travellers who had made this their bid for fame.

[4]However a photograph at the State Library of South Australia taken c. 1917–1925 clearly shows the words "Hillgrove Lockup" cut into the trunk.