Cairns Botanic Gardens
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CAIRNS / BOTANIC GARDEN
is a tropical paradise, renowned as one of the best exhibitions of tropical plants in Australia. Let's explore the beauty of native floras, relaxing in stunning surrounding and learn about horticulture.
with its shady, tropical parkland, takes in an area of approximately 30 hectares, and is connected to the Flecker Botanic Gardens via the Rainforest Boardwalk and walking paths which traverse the recreational parkland and the lowland swamp forests.
The site is unusual in that it consists of two distinct and separate lakes, adjacent to each other in the one location, one being freshwater and the other saltwater.
The freshwater lake is host to a diversity of freshwater aquatic life, such as fish and turtles, a variety of birds, numerous water lilies and other plants.
The saltwater lake, which feeds off the adjoining, mangrove-lined, Saltwater Creek, gives visitors a unique opportunity to explore a mangrove habitat, view small saltwater fish and other mangrove wildlife such as crabs, mud skippers and birds.
Both the freshwater and saltwater lakes are a bird-watchers paradise with some 136 species of birds having been recorded breeding and feeding in the area.
