#8 Perth City Attractions

#1 Rank one goes to the King's Park. It is a botanic garden with diverse species of plants. With its outstanding collection of Western Australia flora, it attracted millions of visitors each year. Of course, we were one of them.

King's Park was not an ordinary botanic garden. Despite its big area with 300+ plant species , it has became a recreation spot, for pleasant walk, jogging, picnic and barbeque.

Bizarre candle-look-like plants.

Due to the fact that it was still winter, only some of the plants blossom. We were still in luck to see some early blossom spring flowers. The flowers would definitely give this park a spectacular view in the spring!!

What's got our attention is the Boab tree.A tree that is 750 years old which weighted 36 tonnes. Imagine how huge is it?! It was transferred all the way from Warmun (I have no idea about the place), but it was indeed a long journey (3000km) to Perth. It was then placed in King's Park. They took one week to transfer the tree.

Bad news is the tree tissues was damaged during its way to King's Park. So the Park's botanist is still trying to fix it by removing the damaged tissue of the tree. And thus you will see a rough surface on one side of the bark. It was quite 'geli' to me./.\

But no worries, the Boab tree would gradually recover under the supervision of the botanists. I hope it did.

Again, our cacat self-captured glamorous pose!

Rough surface of the Boab

King's Park overlooks the Swan River so we got some nice views here.

Camwhore session in the park.

I absolutely love the winter tree look.

Hehe, a shot of us.

I love this photo lol

And more....

Embrace the green :D

#2 Monger Lake

They said the lake is famous for black swans? But unfortunately we didn't see any. But we spotted a numbers of birds, but we don't know what's their names.

I got nothing else to say about the lake except it was really beautiful.

The lake water reflects the blue skies.:)

#3 Heirrison Island

The island with wild kangaroos.We took yellow bus and stopped at no.31. Then we walked by Swan River until we saw a bridge. Cross the bridge. Heirrison Island is on your right.

We were lucky to see a couple of dolphins in Swan River on the way to meet the wild kangaroos.

Yes.They were kangaroos, birds and ducks on the island. According to some reference, kangaroos are  normally active at evening.

We went on morning and so I guess the timing wasn't right. We only saw around 5-6 kangaroos on an isolated small island of a lake. So we just watched them far far away.

Yellow is the dominant colour here.

Photo on bus!

When I came home, mum told me wild kangaroos are dangerous. Yes, wild kangaroos are unpredictable and they can be dangerous. Plus, I watched a video about a kangaroo trying to drown a dog.=(  He looks really evil in this video. :/