Of all the things I saw and did in Australia, the two best things were the Great Barrier Reef and the Butterfly Garden.
My YouTube Channel has the best of the Great Barrier Reef stuff, because video comes out better than pictures in water full of sediment.
However, the pictures from the butterfly garden are better than the video, so I wanted to do an entire post just to show off the butterfly pictures.
The butterfly garden in Kuranda has a building full of caterpillars, so you can see what the juvenile butterflies look like.
The main building is the garden, which is full of all kinds of amazing flowers and water features.
Now, I know butterflies are not everyone’s thing. I am sure most people would have been more excited by the markets and the shopping opportunities.
However, I like watching butterflies. You can just sit down and watch them flutter around. If you hold very still, one might even land on you.
When I traveled with the Renaissance Festival (way back in my early twenties) there was a butterfly garden at one of the fairs in Texas. I used to love to sit in there and watch the butterflies.
If I ever have a back yard again, I hope to fill it with flowers so I can attract butterflies to my yard. Of course, I won’t catch them and pin them under glass like the gift shop, because that is horrifying.
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