A Trip to Australia and New Zealand
Sydney - Botanical Garden
The Royal Botanical Gardens in Sydney together with The Domain adjoining it, comprise more than a hundred acres of park land in the very heart of the city. Governor Phillip established a nine acre corn farm at "Farm Cove" in 1788. In 1816, Governor Macquarie established the Botanical Gardens and appointed Charles Fraser as the first Colonial Botanist. In 1848, Charles Moore became Director of the Gardens and pretty much shaped it to be what we see today.
The parks of Sydney are a great place to see a wide variety of birds that we do not find in North America. This noble fellow is an Australian White Ibis and he had a lot of relatives living in the Botanical Gardens. As I remember it the Ibis was one of the birds that Noah put on the Ark and that the Greeks felt were sacred.
