Photograph of a felled tree lying horizontally across a gully and connecting Gold Creek and Fern Forest in Victoria. Within it's bark, the tree has carved and painted names including "J. HOWARD, WWH, M. BOWDEN, EC, TIGRAVES, A MCD". A wooden pole forms a hand rail, which a man walks across. On the right of the foreground, a man is seated whilst another stands amongst ferns in the background.

At the top of the photograph, a printed caption contemporary with the photograph, informs the reader that the tree was placed across the gully 'expressly for the convenience of lady visitors' where once stepping stones provided the only means to cross the stream. 

This is a photograph from one of the nine albums compiled following Prince Albert Victor (1864-92) and Prince George of Wales' (1865-1936) world tour aboard HMS Bacchante from 1879 to 1882. The photographs were collected by their chaperon and tutor, John Neale Dalton.

The majority of the images in these albums are topographical views and architectural studies, loosely arranged according to the group’s itinerary. They include photographs of artefacts, local people and public figures, as well as portraits of the princes taken during the tour. The attempt to recreate the experience of a journey through such an assortment of images is common to many amateur travelling albums of this period. In 1886, some of the photographs in the albums were reproduced as engravings in the published accounts of the voyage, The Cruise of Her Majesty's Ship Bacchante, 1879-1882.