Australian National Botanic Gardens

Once we've found our parking spot, we walk into the Visitor area and follow the signs to Pollen Cafe - lunchtime. Roger has a Breakfast Burger and I have a Benny Croissant with our chosen cuppas, tea for Rog, Chai Latte for me - nice, but seems overpriced for the sizing of our meals.
After this we wander back to the Visitor Centre - get a Gardens map and look about the lovely gift shop. We learn there is a free guided tour at 2pm, so we have a short stroll around the 'rainforest' section to fill in our time until we take this tour.
Before 2pm we're at the meeting place for the tour - and wait to find we're the only 2 taking the tour. Sue, our guide is a friendly, very chatty older lady. Very knowledgeable on the gardens and gives us a beaut hour long tour, then leaves us 'to it' to appreciate the gardens by taking our time to look about ourselves. There are over 7000 Australian native species here - and growing! Very lovely - there are major projects being worked on at present, so there will be more to see in the future.
Once we've had enough, we decide to go find a Bunnings - as I'm after an extending pole I can use as a temporary hanging rail in the caravan shower (when we're not using it). Find a Bunnings - but no luck we the pole. We'll have to try a camping shop one day. Next go to a nearby Fresh Food Market in Belconnen to get some fruit and vegetables. Drive back to our campground.Read more