Three weeks after returning to Queensland, I navigated to a suburb on the North side of Brisbane for the first time and got a tattoo of a ghost gum with a little Larapinta Trail marker.
I absolutely love it.
The ghost gum is the hardiest little tree, growing exposed on top of barren cliffs, battered day in and night by wind.
After touching it with your bare hands, the bark will scar. Damo taught me that.