Sunday, September 7, 2025
By 8:00 we walked over to King William Street to catch a tram to North Terrace, then caught another to head as far west as we could go in the fare-free zone.
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Passed the Adelaide Railway Station (1926-1928,
by Daniel Garlick and Herbert Jackman) |
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| Newmarket Hotel (1883-1884, by Daniel Garlick) |
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A block off of North Terrace was the Peter Rabbit Café
(2015), initially built out of a pair of shipping containers
and recycled materials, with a "secret" garden |
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| Kent orders our breakfast at the counter |
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| A long black coffee with extra water |
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| Poached eggs on toast with hash browns, with chutney |
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| Cherry porridge |
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Walked back to North Terrace through
the University of South Australia which
prohibits the public from joining the
protests of students or staff (KSS) |
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A tram took us to the eastern end of North Terrace
with Ayer's House (1846 with expansions in the 1870s
by George Strickland Kingston in Regency style) |
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Botanic Chambers (1876-1877, by Michael McMullen
in Victorian Italianate style) are terrace houses
that are unusually grand (KSS) |
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| Botanic Hotel associated with the Botanic Chambers |
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Across the street is the entrance to the Adelaide
Botanic Garden (1857) |
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| Clivia miniata/Natal Lily |
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| Botanic Garden Palm Grove |
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| Nelumbo Pond in the rain |
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| Adelaide Botanic Garden |
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| Amazon Waterlily Pavilion (2007) |
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The giant round leaves of the Victoria amazonica/
Amazon Waterlily (KSS) |
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| Nymphaea caerulea/Blue Nile Waterlily |
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| Mediterranean Garden (KSS) |
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Manorina melanocephala/Noisy Miner, a honeyeater bird
in the Aloe ferox/Cape Aloe blossoms (KSS) |
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Bicentennial Conservatory (1989, by Guy Maron) is the
largest single-span glasshouse in the Southern Hemisphere;
it was closed today |
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| International Rose Garden (sorry, no blooms) |
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| Bee Hotel in the Kitchen Garden |
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| Peach blossom |
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Well, even here they have problems with trash
in the compost bin |
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| Underwater viewing at the First Creek Wetland |
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| Another view of the Bicentennial Conservatory |
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| Cascade (2018, by Sergio Redegalli) |
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| Another view of Cascade |
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| Arbutus glandulosa/Mexican Strawberry Tree (KSS) |
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| Aeonium arboreum/Tree Aeonium (KSS) |
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| Sunken Garden (KSS) |
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| Eulamprus quoyii/Eastern Water Skink |
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| Cistus × purpureus/Orchid Rockrose |
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| Ceanothus griseus/Carmel Creeper |
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Heptapleurum actinophyllum/
Australian Umbrella Tree |
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| Australian Umbrella Tree leaves |
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Maybe Senna artemisioides ssp coriacea/
Broad-leaf Desert Senna |
Next we walked westward on North Terrace.
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The University of Adelaide Bonython Hall
(1933-1936, by Walter Bagot in Gothic style)) |
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| Gymnorhina tibicen/Australian Magpie |
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The University of Adelaide Mitchell Building
(1879-1881, by William McMinn in Gothic
Revival style) was the first permanent building;
the statue (1906, by Francis Williamson)
of Sir Walter Watson Hughes, the
first donor to the university |
Next: Adelaide III.
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