This column's two-part exposé on the knock-out new Murramarang South Coast Walk prompted a bulging mailbag.
While most of the correspondence reflected the sentiments of Johnathon Smithers of Kambah who has walked parts of the old track "on and off for 30 years" but "can't wait to step out along the upgraded sections", several readers asked about the unusually shaped spotted gum growing alongside the track near Emily Miller Beach.