Brisbane Botanical Gardens

Why is it so hard to get a teen or preteen to do anything and to be happy about it? DD has spent the last two weeks of school holidays cooped up at home, doing chores and not much more. Finally, an opportunity to go out in the sunshine and all we had was 'this is boring', 'are we going soon' and 'can I have some ice cream'. What is in their phyche that makes them want to resist anything that would possibly make them a smidgen happy, and me for that matter? You honestly don't know how hard it was to even get these few photos from her. But, boy when she let's me I get some fantastic photos.

I think it's been close to 15 odd years since we've ventured to the Botanical Gardens at Mt Cootha. There's now a whole new section that either I can't remember or they've added since last time when went. They've still got the ducks though. And, we still got to feed them even though the water in the pond was pretty low. Another extra little treat was feeding the turtles under the platform overhanging the pond. We counted at least five of them, but, boy were they slow at eating the bread before the ducks invaded.

The rain forest section was good but it would have been nice to have seen even a small waterfall. A little cooler at least than the open sections of the Gardens. The Japanese Gardens below were so spectacular and so picturesque.