An ancient land - Xanthorea australis and Mt Boyes Flinders Island

Flinders Island is an ancient landscape of time worn granite mountains and their alluvial silts and sands from way back into Devonian times in geological history. Much of the vegetation is Jurrasic in origin that has evolved little. Many of the life forms here, both flora and fauna are very primitive and seemingly trapped in a time warp. This "Yakka Gum" or "Grass Tree" is such an anomally that is common in the coastal heath of Flinders Island, dating back to Australians very ancient history as part of ancient Gondwanaland.