Good for the Soul!

I have decided that I do indeed love my Thursday class. Not for the class itself, or the lecturers or anything such as that, but for the simple reason that it gives me an extra excuse to wander around the city for hours.

Today my journeys included the City Botanic Gardens. (There are three botanic gardens in the city, with two of them right in the city center, as well as some beautifully landscaped "parklands" alongside the river.) Of course, I forgot to pack a lunch, a picnic blanket, and a book, but I will remember next time.



It wouldn't be a garden without some random sculptures:


And of course, some ponds with fountains:








If you walk walk walk through the gardens, eventually you find some more sculptures and the the river:










If you keep walking along the river, it eventually turns into mangroves:


With the kangaroo point cliffs in the background:


According to wiki: The Kangaroo Point Cliffs are not natural. They were created by a quarrying operation which mined the volcanic rock or rhyolite lava flows which form the cliffs. These lavas were deposited in the Tertiary period about 30 million years ago and filled up an ancient river valley. They currently form the banks of the Brisbane River.

Apparently, lots of people like to climb them, but I didn't see any today.

And at the end of my walk: