Blue skies beckoned, so back to Booderee N.P. to the Botanical Gardens, the only Aboriginal owned botanic gardens in Australia.
The gardens cover 80 hectares of the National Park and include a unique setting of cultivated areas surrounded by natural bushland.
A fascinating collection of eucalyptus, melaleuca (paperbark tree), acacias, grevilleas, casuarina, ficus, hibiscus, calistemon (bottle brush ), banksia, norfolk pine, cyathea (tree ferns), swamp lily (crinum), staghorn ferns & livistonia palm (see pics).
A canvas of every shade of green & brown, as there was little in the way of flowers, but no lack of drama with the scale of the trees & the variety of bark textures.
Our favourite - the Scribbly Gum, the squiggly patterns made by the larvae of a moth.
A lazy afternoon on the Summer Cloud Beach with our books - Rob is reading "The Third Passion" by Stuart Salvage - lent to him by our B&B host - the author!
A wonderful walk this evening along the ocean pathway that runs parallel to Huskisson Beach.
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