Cooroy Botanical Gardens

After a certain amount of discussion we elect to visit Cooroy Botanical Gardens during the day, which looks nice from the leaflet.

Nicole gets us there with no emergency recovery navigation required excepting a small crisis over handedness.

It's a lovely warm day and we wander down to an Amphitheatre where drama may or may not occur. There's clearly no water crisis here as sprinklers are srinkling away all over the place. Judging by the fascination that Eloise seems to be experiencing, sprinkling and sprinklers are a whole new class of experience.

It's an amphitheatre, there's no doubt about it, but possible in name only, for although the shape is correct and sonic projection seems to occur, it's made of brick and any pretence at old age is rather shattered by the ghastly metal railings that are in place all over it.

Still never mind, we have some lunch, slightly disappointed that the Gardens seem so small and feature only a few grass trees.

After lunch and a hugely entertaining conversation about how well Eloise is doing with her toilet training, we discover the gardens are actually far larger than we thought, and Eloise craps herself.

We try to get a close-up look at some geese without being murdered by them, and wander around a fern-house and the woods before I get sidetracked and mope about solo for a while.