Adelaide Mt Lofty Botanic Park on a Perfect Autumn day

The weather has been absolutely stunning for the last week with clear blue South Australian autumn  skies and no wind and the temperature in the low twenties....

So yesterday a friend and I drove to the Mt Lofty Botanic Park to view the exotic trees in their autumn colours. To start with I missed the turn off for the road I used to take when Brian was still alive and we would take a picnic to the Park quite frequently before Covid hit us. We did and extra tour of the hills as I unintentionally finished up on the Freeway and had to drive through Bridgewater to Aldgate to get to the right turnoff.

The car park was packed but luckily, someone drove out as we drove in and so parked near the amusing sign warning us to keep a safe distance...not a Kangaroo in sight....

Since I was last in the Park there have been wonderful changes and the sculptures on their plinths look great. We took the walk along the lower level which is easy going as the days of climbing the hillsides are sadly gone... we huff and puff too much these days .....There are steps now down to the lake where before you sort of slipped and slid down the embankment. There were lots of wading birds and because there were some people feeding them, this brought a lot of the ducks and divers skiing along at the rate of knots so as not to miss out on food.....

I can't quite remember what the description of this next sculpture said, but it looked so good with the changing colours of the trees in the background.

Also the artist name was not acknowledged which seemed odd and a little sad, I thought , such lovely work ought to be known surely....

The little Blue Fairy wrens are quite a feature of this Park, they are so dear and cute with their perky tails and their quick movements, I was lucky to get this one to stay still for two seconds so as to grab the opportunity to photograph him. I wonder why it is always the male bird that is so attractive and the little females are quite drab looking....though still cute with their little red bills and quick movements...

 On our way back we walked along the bank of the lake which is man made with a very steep bank on the north side. A group of young children were having a wonderful time sliding down the bank on pieces of card board ....obviously they had not bothered to read the sign prominently displayed...such joy though on such a wonderful afternoon as they were rolling and sliding on the grass.....it brought a smile to our faces....

Do click on the photos to get a better view....