Monday, June 19, 2006
The Botanical Gardens
Today we went to the Royal Botanical Gardens. They are stunningly beautiful, even in winter. They keep the plantings up and running even in the winter. They have many different kinds of ficus trees--a kind of fig tree--and many of them drop roots from branches creating multiple trunks from the same tree. Most of the time, these end up winding around each other, but in some cases these end up creating multiple trunks that almost look like a stand of trees even though they are a single tree.
The bottle trees are pretty cool as well. They have huge trunks. There are also some amazing rock formations down by the water that must have been carved out many many many hundreds of years ago as the water level is so much lower now.
Next, some pictures from a harbour tour we also took today.
