royal botanic gardens - 18 oct 06

the royal botanic gardens are a public space, free to enter, and is a popular area for a picnic, jog, or a walk. it's really lovely and has a nice view of sydney harbour (opera hourse, bridge, etc.) and the succlent garden made me feel right at home! (cacti, aloe, agave plants, etc.) here are a couple of photos i took. more photos will be available in the upcoming snapfish album including all of my random sydney photos.


and this photo? (sorry it's sideways. just tilt your monitor) those are bats hanging in the tree! grey-headed fox bats, to be specific (though their head is more reddish). they live in a bunch of trees in one section of the park. apparently they used to come seasonally but now they live there, and are ruining the trees they roost in. the park had signs saying that they are using safe/humane/non-damaging methods of 'discouraging' them to leave. they are very noisy neighbors.