After leaving Darling Harbour, the sun was striking hard and I thought it would be safe to put on some sunscreen. After purchasing some from a store, we took a taxi to go to the Opera House. But our first stop would be the Botanical Garden.
During the taxi ride, and even when we arrived at the Botanical Garden, I noticed more and more how clean was the whole city of Sydney . It was cleaner than other big cities in the World that I had seen, and we couldn’t easily find rubbish left out on the ground. I thought that when the citizen got used to their surroundings being clean, it would be harder for them to leave out rubbish around, because a certain pride an blalance would have developped in the cleanliness of their city. All I had to do then was to think how to introduce that pride to the citizens of Montreal!…
In the Botanical Garden was fantastically arranged by the harbour and we could see Sydney’s skyscrapers in the background. There were a few people walking around, some were tourists like us taking pictures, others were doing their afternoon run. Although there weren’t many garbage cans around, the garden was completely clean, with not one paper or tissue left on the ground.
We saw beautiful flowers, majestic trees, huge spiders, and strange looking birds. We even saw bats, hundreds of them, all assembled on top of the tall trees. They were communicating with each other using a hideous sound. I was told that it was the season where bats would pass by this place.
