On our second day in sunny Australia, Nana and I struck out on a long walk to the
Flecker Botanical Gardens in Cairns. This free public park is a great place to spot some beautiful Australian plant life. For this post, I'll let the photos speak largely for themselves. Enjoy!
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| En route along the Cairns foreshore. |
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| The beach gives way to a big mud flat. |
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| The Gondwanan Evolution Garden uses "living fossils" to simulate the evolutionary history of Australian plant life. |
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| One expects to see dinosaurs. |
(For a detailed explanation of why Australia's plant and animal life is so weird, check out
this article by NOVA. Short version: before the arrival of
Homo sapiens, Australia's biome was been isolated from the rest of the world for about 40 million years.)
I love the picture of Nana in the hat. So adorable!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI guess I can't make fun of her driving any more. Sighhhh one more joy drained from my sadistic life.
Jackie