A day out at the local gardens and zoo

The sun is shining and a cool breeze is keeping it cool enough for walking so Barb and I are setting off to check out the local gardens at Auburn, it's a lovely place and they have a small zoo and the gardens are full of peacocks that wonder around free but she hasn't been in ten years so she will notice many changes..
It's about a 3 k's to the gardens but there is a bus so we sat on the bus stop for a hour waiting no bus arrived so we started walking.

Barb has had a operation on her eyes so the are very sensitive to the sun so this is her solution until she gets new glasses rather cute.

We arrived in time for lunch but the little cafe that was there is now a art gallery and they told us there was a tennis club around the corner so we headed off. 

Lunch was pretty good and to join cost $2.20 cheaper than the bus fare so I joined up.

The gardens were free today and not many people were there, no one on the gate, they have just finished The Cherry Blossem Festival ant they have a lot of visitors at that time.

Lots of waterfalls and cool areas to sit and relax.

This little fellow came up to say hello.

Not sure what this is, it's in the Japanese gardens.

This was the only water bird that came close, he wondered up sit down and posed for his picture he is a beautiful fellow.

Most of the times I have been up here there is something going on, there was a photo shoot and this peacock wanted to get into the action, the model in the blue wig just moved over and let him have his moment in the spotlight.  

All the peacocks just wonder around free and I was surprised how many there were.

The pop in to visit the wallabies.

Sit on the fences at the mini zoo.

The little albino wallaby was a favourite.

This fine fellow let me get pretty close but he wouldn't open his tail.

They rock wallabies are so sweet.

This one has a joey in the pouch you can just see a little leg sticking out.

The kangaroos are relaxing, the day was warm enough for a nana nap.

And a drink

This is the entrance gate and nobody was any where around the peacocks had been out walking and were just coming back maybe they went to the club for afternoon tea.

We were thinking about going on the free bus but trouble was it only runs on Thursday it was Wednesday so a pretty long wait.

This is selfie

Another go not too good at this.

There is a  small area across the road where there are large cages of birds.

Only one peacock here maybe he was injured or didn't like people as he was the only one in a cage.

Here we have some shots of the Japanese area.

The clothes for the photo shoot, I thought it was someones washing.

Well thats it, it getting late and we have a long walk home they changed the bus route a few weeks ago we just found out, but no one  has put up a notice in the bus shelters.