From a Landstory correspondent:

​With its population of approximately 300, Bremer Bay is a small coastal town in the south western corner of Australia.  It's one of the best kept secrets, but when its population expanding ten fold in the summer months it's hard to believe that everyone can fit into this area.  But the beaches go on for ever and most of them you can drive your vehicle on to get an up close feeling.
 
Bremer Bay is best known for its white beaches and the local caravan park that integrated  into its mature peppermint trees to offer its visitor, from all over Australia and the world a truly back to nature experience .
 
But for me It's the silence and the light pollution free night sky that will remain with me, sitting by a camp fire and staring endlessly into the night skies.
 
The simplicity of life in Bremer Bay where the locals talk to you, are interested in you, offer ideas and suggestions, I hope it does not change, because living in the city or other countries holds a complication and stress that make you wish you could live here forever in the peppermint trees.
 

I had heard about them and seen a few in botanical gardens, but nothing prepares you for the trees just growing in abundance in Broome, a northern town in Western Australia 
 
Adansonia gregorii, or commonly known as the boab, is a tree in the family Malvaceae. As with other baobabs, it is easily recognised by the swollen base of its trunk, which forms a massive caudex, giving the tree a bottle-like appearance. 

The Australian boab is also related to the native to Madagascar (six species) and mainland Africa and the Arabian Peninsula (one species). Boab ranges from 5 to 15 metres in height, usually between 9 and 12 metres, with a broad bottle-shaped trunk.  Its trunk base may be extremely large; trunks with a diameter of over five metres have been recorded.  A. gregorii is deciduous, losing its leaves during the dry winter period and producing new leaves and large white flowers between December and May.

There are many theories on how the African tree got to Australia or vice versa, but my theory after reading Gavin Menzies book 1421, is that the Chinese have something to do with it.  But whether you believe that thought or not, the boab tree is definitely impressive in a hostile environment and its survival is nothing short of amazing.