The gardens in the parklands are many and varied. There are gardens from different periods of Adelaide’s history, and several native gardens. They have developed a number of gardens that encourage native bees, and there are also some native bee hives.
Outside the Adelaide Cricket Ground, there’s a statue of Ross Smith. After the First World War, Australia ran a competition (The Great Air Race) to see who could fly back to Australia fastest. Ross Smith won when he landed in Darwin.
In the cemetery, I found the grave of the first woman to graduate from an Australian university - Julia Margaret Guerin who received a BA from the University of Melbourne in 1883 and her MA in 1885. It seems fitting that she ended up in South Australia, since it was the first jurisdiction in the world to have full female suffrage (women could vote, and women could be elected), and the fourth in the world to allow women to vote.
There were a number of art installations that I found interesting. Piltawodli (Possum Home) was a site where aborigines were located in 1838, with German missionaries who recorded their language. In 1845 the aboriginal children were relocated to an English only native school and the houses here were destroyed by soldiers. Thus, they became the first of the stolen generations.
Another installation I liked was Lie of the Land - Universal Symbols of Home - a series of domes (all different) made from local materials on both sides of Sir Donald Bradman Drive, symbolically rejoining aboriginal hunting grounds.
Of course, there were lots of great views of Adelaide itself. This was my favourite.
There were also some animals. A horse paddock for mainly white horses (I think these were police horses).
Ducks with an astounding number of offspring.
South Australia has a lot of old stone houses. This one is typical.
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