We walked past the charming and unusual St Thomas Aquinas church in Bromby Street.
Things have grown at the 'volcano', but I am not overly fond of cactus and nor is R.
Briefly, the volcano was designed by a director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, William Guilfoyle, for water storage. It fell into disuse and became overgrown and filled in. A couple of years ago it was uncovered and reinstated, a very worthy albeit expensive project. On the last visit, it had floating islands. I wonder what happened to them? It looks rather sterile now
Being the highest point in the gardens, it has good views.
Damn, I was a bit slow with the camera to capture the bare topped backpacker.
If you are at a high point, there is only one way to go and down leads you to the cafe, where we had some tea, noted the birdlife and entwined eels in the lake. The flag is flying on Government House, so Victoria's Governor is at home. A couple of weeks later he was to host the Queen for lunch and a reception.
We exited the gardens at the north east corner and across the road is Morell Bridge, perhaps better known as the Anderson Street Bridge.
I can remember when you could drive across the bridge, but now it is for foot and bicycle traffic.
If you want to see more photos of the Botanic Gardens and along the riverbank, I recommend Gleeful as Frisky Librarian walks along the way to her place of work.
ABC Sydney refers to that stadium as the Rectangular Stadium, everyone else calls it by it's sponsor's name.
ReplyDeletePrickly stuff that cactus :-).
ReplyDeleteHAha! So where are the pix/id of the birds?!?!
ReplyDeleteVictor, it is very messy. Some trams can still show Telstra Dome, when it hasn't been that for years. A proper name is needed for all such venues, along with a sponsor name if they have to. Vodafone Arena is now Hisense, whatever that is.
ReplyDeleteLike some people Windsmoke, haha.
Er, sorry Ms Red. I forgot. Next time I will do better for show and tell.
I was already enjoying this post and then I got to the shout-out to moi at the end! Hehe. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteThe last time I visited the volcano it had been drained (must have sprung a leak) so I'm glad to see it's got water in it again. The floating islands did add extra interest.
The stadium (which hosts soccer and rugby) started life as the Rectangular Stadium, but is known as AAMI Park - for now. It's also sometimes called the Bubble Dome, for obvious reasons. I agree a stadium should have a permanent name.
I was already enjoying this post and then I got to the shout-out to moi at the end! Hehe. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteThe last time I visited the volcano it had been drained (must have sprung a leak) so I'm glad to see it's got water in it again. The floating islands did add extra interest.
The stadium (which hosts soccer and rugby) started life as the Rectangular Stadium, but is known as AAMI Park - for now. It's also sometimes called the Bubble Dome, for obvious reasons. I agree a stadium should have a permanent name.
I was already enjoying this post and then I got to the shout-out to moi at the end! Hehe. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteThe last time I visited the volcano it had been drained (must have sprung a leak) so I'm glad to see it's got water in it again. The floating islands did add extra interest.
The stadium (which hosts soccer and rugby) started life as the Rectangular Stadium, but is known as AAMI Park - for now. It's also sometimes called the Bubble Dome, for obvious reasons. I agree a stadium should have a permanent name.
FL, it was rather a case of I have seen most of this before, via your postings.
ReplyDeleteI love the Botanic gardens. Okay, I love any gardens really that are interesting :P
ReplyDeleteFen, nothing better than communing with man made nature and going home to tv and net.
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