I didn't feel like I was really in Australia until I skipped out on the meeting one afternoon and ventured out to the Brisbane Botanical Garden at Mt. Coot-tha, a few km outside of the city center. The garden was divided into different Australian habitats and showcased the tremendous diversity of plants comprising the flora there. There were also plants from around the world. We liked the 'natural' Australian dry tropical forest (where we saw a monitor lizard climb a tall tree, probably looking for bird eggs to munch (see pic). There were also many beautiful birds scattered about, including a mysterious large white loud bird that we later identified as a cockatoo. In this case, pictures really are worth a thousand words apiece, so to give you a flavor of this place, i've included several shots here.
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