Australian Photo Gallery 2011 - Adelaide

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1 - Sydney Airport, Qantas
     domestic flights terminal
2 - Greeted by our daughter on
     arrival at Adelaide Airport
3 - Adelaide's colonial period
architecture at corner of Rundle St
4 - Botanic Gardens, laid out as
 English parkland

5 - Australian Magpies
 in Adelaide Botanic Gardens
6 - Madagascan Bismarck Palm
  growing in Victorian Palm House
7 - Huge water lily species
 in Amazon Water Lily Pavilion
8 - Swiss Cheese Plants (Monstera
 deliciosa
), native to Central America

 
9 - Fish-tail Palm (Caryota sp) from
 rainforests of NE Australia and SE Asia
10 - Migration Museum plaques
commemorating East European migrants
11 - Catching the Adelaide tram
   service along King William Street
12 - House of Assembly, Lower House
 of South Australian State Parliament

 
13 - Legislative Council, Upper House
     of South Australia State Parliament
14 - Glenelg tram terminus at Mosely
Square by Glenelg Town Hall and Jetty
15 - Glenelg Centenary Monument
   commemorating 1836 first settlers
16 - Fish and chip lunch in autumn
     sunshine by the Jetty at Glenelg

 
17 - Strolling along Glenelg Jetty
      in the autumn sunshine
18 - Glenelg white sand beaches
   stretching away north and south
19 - Magpie Lark strutting around
   Glenelg seafront parkland gardens
20 - Replica of Governor Hindsmith's
     ship HMS Buffalo at Glenelg

 
21 - Gum Tree under which Governor
Hindsmith read 1836 Act of Proclamation
22 - Victoria Square on a bright,
    sunny autumn morning
23 - King William Street bordering
 western side of Victoria Square
24 - Australian and Aboriginal flags
 flying side-by-side in Victoria Square

 
25 - Victoria Square, a green oasis
  of broad lawns and flower-beds
26 - Queen Victoria statue in Victoria
   Square close to busy traffic junction
27 - Three Rivers Fountain, backed by
GPO at NW corner of Victoria Square
28 - Three Rivers Fountain in Victoria
Square, symbolising Adelaide's rivers

 
29 - Browsing the stalls at
     Adelaide's Central Market
30 - Stall stocked with every kind
 of Southern Ocean fish and shell fish
31 - Ćevapčići hot dog for lunch
     at Central Markets
32 - Rundle Mall's famous four
     life-sized bronze pig statues

 
33 - Umbrella Tree (Schefflera
actinophylla
) from Queensland rainforests
34 - Cultivated Wollemi Pine specimen
  (Wollemia nobilis)
35 - SA's iconic flower, Sturt's Desert
    Pea (Swainsona formosa)
36 - Blue Emu Bush
  (Eremophila hygrophana)
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