Royal Botanic Gardens
August 15th 2008 We were so impressed with our first visit that at the next opportunity we went back to the Botanic Gardens with a view to joining a guided tour. We met with the guide at 1pm - a lovely, sweet older guy who knew his stuff when it came to Australian plant specimens.
We started the tour by looking at a tree that had bark which flaked off and was soft and paper-like - apparently the Aborigines used
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