Archive for the 'Parks and Gardens' Category

Sign in the Cranbourne Botanic Gardens, Victoria
Our holiday in Victoria
September 2007
On a previous visit some years ago to the Cranbourne Botanic Gardens south east of Melbourne we were delighted to see a Southern Brown Bandicoot near the picnic area. On this visit I was hopeful of seeing one again, this time with my camera at […]

Sign in the Cranbourne Botanic Gardens, Victoria
Our holiday in Victoria
September 2007
On our walk in the Cranbourne Botanic Gardens south east of Melbourne we were delighted to get good views of a Swamp Wallaby. It seemed a little shy about coming out into the open which made getting a good photo hard. I also found it […]

Sign in the Cranbourne Botanic gardens Victoria
Our holiday in Victoria
September 2007
One of the main places we had planned to visit on our recent holiday in NSW and Victoria was the Cranbourne Botanic Gardens. These gardens are about a hour by freeway south east of Melbourne. When I say an “hour” I realise that this is […]

Orchids in a friend’s garden, Cranbourne
Our holiday in Victoria
September 2007
We’ve only known Doug and his wife for several years. We met through our common interest in Australian native plants. We had first met them when they came to the Adelaide plant sale which we attend. Doug has planted much of his garden with native plants, […]

Eastern Bearded Dragon
Our holiday in Canberra
September 2007
When we went to visit the Australian National Botanic Gardens in Canberra I went to see the plants and flowers and the bird life. I didn’t expect to be watching reptiles, nor did I expect to be able to get some great shots of them.
Eastern Bearded Dragon
The Eastern Bearded […]