We came to Adelaide by plane and plan to stay one night. A stroll through the main shopping strip (Rundle Mall) to forage for lunch was interrupted by rain, so a sandwich in the food court and return to hotel sufficed. Adelaide architecture still has a delightful 19th century quaintness that distinguishes it from other State capitals. Below is the Beehive Cormer.
Afterwards a stroll through the City Botanic Gardens. Too early for a great show of flowers, but of interest was an Amazonian night water lily, which attracts beetles and enforces bed and breakfast before releasing them. Also a pavilion restored, it proclaims, with largesse procured by the Hon Paul Keating. We admired the succulent garden outside. We shared a coffee with native pigeons (they watched while we drank), considered a vine flower enveloping a Moreton Bay Fig, and marvelled at a palm flower.
On our way back we encountered a Boer War memorial: as far as we know the only one in Australia solely dedicated to this Colonial enterprise.
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