Scar trees on the Mullum Mullum Creek in Melbourne's east
Today - a ride up the Mullum Mullum Creak to where it meets the Yarra River (Birrarung). This is Tikalara Park, a special place for the Wurrundjeri as the sign says (below). Also, the first place where a white settler built a homestead in 1837...soon to force out the locals who lived on the high ground above the floodplains: Some local websites seem to treat the Indigenous history in a pretty short manner, as in: http://bobpadula.wixsite.com/yarraparklands/tikalara-park , where the main mention is as follows: " The property itself (now subdivided) has several remnant plantings of the colonial era, including Himalayan Cypress, Black Mulberry and willow trees and the integrity of ancient scar trees, ancestral camping sites and other spirit places of the Wurundjeri aborigines, which was respected by the Newman family." Another online source offers other perspectives on settler Major Charles Newman's relationship to the locals: Major Newman was also harsh o