Oh boy do we love the flowers! Australia comprises one of the six plant kingdoms and over 50% of Australia's flora are found here in Western Australia. As such it was impossible for us not to go to the Western Australia Botanical Gardens this location provided great views of the river and the city. The birds were flying all around, the flowers were in bloom and the day was glorious.
Nine person canoes?
So many different school uniforms
These sailboats were smaller than the canoes
The gardens are located in Kings Park which is huge. It is the largest urban park in the southern hemisphere
The buildings continue to go up higher and higher
A war memorial
The view and the breeze were magnificient
So many odd types of plants
Most of the flowers are tiny, but when they go big they really go big
A type of bottle brushes
These plants were very strange
A splashy entrance
Very splashy indeed
A red wattlebird
It was so interesting that 50% of all Australian plant species live in this small corridor
The rainbow Lorikeet
They were very chatty
What a beautiful bird
Lord Forrest in the forest
These flowers are big and filled with sap
The calls of the Australian Ravens were incessant
Big flowers and lots of them
Then back to tiny flowers
So pretty and pink
A mass of little yellow flowers
They moved this big baobab tree 500 km to this location. They moved it by truck and had to build a new bridge that could accommodate the truck and tree.
An Australian Magpie
Every square inch is covered in flowers
These banksia flowers are related to the protea flowers we saw in South Africa
There many different colors and types
The bee's butt is just barely sticking our of these flowers
A tiny orchid
VA huge showy group of flowers
All the colors of the rainbow were planted
Such happy looking flowers
Very cool bark on this eucalyptus tree
The wind was whipping
Delicate tiny flowers
A type of Perth Daisy
The smoke bush. I moves gracefully in the wind. It gets its name because it grows in large swaths. As the large swaths move with the wind, it looks like smoke from a fire
A blast of yellow
Great fun
It has been 139 Days since we began our Migration
