Sydney Botanical Gardens

By the end of the opera house tour, the last of the heat wave was gone and the weather had returned to a cool, rainy, dreary pattern (much like Seattle in the spring). We took a stroll through the botanical gardens located behind the opera house.

Looking back toward the harbor, this view captures the opera house, bridge, and one of the many commuter ferries.


Many giant fig trees inhabit the grounds. It wasn’t until we got home that we noticed an alien peeking out from the right side of the tree.


According to various botany text books and arborist guides, this here is a big ass tree.


We had seen the following from the bus the day before and thought it might be a cemetery. In a way it was. Each block was salvaged from an old building that was torn down and captures a bit of the style of that building. A plaque on each block named the building and the year it was built. Rather cool idea.


OK, enough gardening, let’s find the bus to Bondi…