The Peak of Adelaide | Mount Lofty and Adelaide Botanic Gardens
I’m in Adelaide taking in some of the best natural sights and wildlife that Australia has to offer for the last part of my mid-semester break. My roommate En and I started our adventures in South Australia by checking out the Adelaide Botanic Gardens and hiking to the summit of Mount Lofty.
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My jam-packed mid-semester break continued with a trip to Adelaide, South Australia, to take in some of the most scenic natural sites and amazing wildlife that Australia has to offer. Sleep-deprived as I might have been, I headed off to the airport only a day after my last trip had ended to catch my flight.
After getting to Adelaide, En and I went for a walk around the Adelaide CBD before heading out to our first stop. While walking around we noticed that Adelaide is much calmer than that we’re used to in Melbourne, and I think that En really enjoyed the change of pace.
From the CBD we walked to the Adelaide Botanic Gardens for a relaxing afternoon. The gardens were surprisingly vast and seemed to have a ton of different natural sights packed into one small space.
One thing that really amazed me about the Adelaide Botanic Gardens was their Bicentennial Conservatory. Essentially they’ve built an indoor tropical rainforest in the middle of the city, so I was pretty surprised to find a rainforest when I was only expecting a couple of plants and some signs when I walked into the building.
After only one day I had gotten the impression that Adelaide is very focused on showcasing the amazing natural sights that are so easily accessible from the city, and really strives to maintain a city that looks great and has lots to do. Overall I thought that the city had an awesome, close-knit vibe despite its approximately 1.3 million people.
After a bit more exploring around the Adelaide Botanic Gardens and CBD, En and I went back to our hostel to prepare for what would be a much more active second day in South Australia.
On day 2 in Adelaide we went to the peak of Adelaide, Mount Lofty, to see some more of the beautiful nature around the city and get some amazing summit views. We started in the Mount Lofty Botanic Gardens, which although quite different from the gardens in the Adelaide CBD, were still really cool.
The gardens at Mount Lofty didn’t quite have as many attractions to see, but showcased lots of walking and hiking trails, along with a scenic man-made lake in the gully at the bottom of the garden. From the bottom of the gully in the botanic gardens we started our hike to the top of Mount Lofty.
We planned to go for a hike today since it was supposed to be sunny all day, so of course it started raining once we got onto the hiking trail. Although the rain did eventually pass, it left behind a series of rivers for us to cross over on our way to the top.
I didn’t manage crossing the rivers very well at all, and unfortunately drenched one of my feet after hesitantly looking for a way to cross one particularly long rain river. Needless to say that made the rest of the hike a little but more uncomfortable, but still very much worth it.
Eventually we got to the main trail, and from there the rest of our hike was straight uphill to the summit (luckily with no more rivers). In total the hike from the bottom of the gardens to the summit was about 7kms and took at least 2 to 3 hours, so needless to say it made for a very fun and full day.
The view of the city from the Mount Lofty summit was absolutely gorgeous. Hiking up Mount Lofty should definitely be near the top of your list of things to do in Adelaide.
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Adelaide Botanic Garden is a 51 hectare (125 acres) public garden at the north-east corner of the Adelaide city centre, in the Adelaide Park Lands. It encompasses a fenced garden on North Terrace (between the Royal Adelaide Hospital and the National Wine Centre) and behind it the Botanic Park (adjacent to the Adelaide Zoo). Adelaide Botanic Garden, together with Wittunga and Mt Lofty Botanic Gardens, comprise the Botanic Gardens of South Australia .
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Early settlers had difficulty finding a suitable location for the Botanic Gardens and decided on this, the fifth site for the Adelaide Botanic Gardens and associated Botanic Park, in 1879.
Adelaide Botanic Gardens and the associated Botanic Park are at the junction of Greenhill Creek with First Creek and include their associated wetlands (swamps).
Botanic Park is managed by the Board of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens which is a State Government statutory authority as defined by state legislation.
Adelaide Zoo, an independent conservation society, was granted use of portions of the Park in 1883.
In 1909 portion of the Botanic Park were used as the Headquarters, Depot and Barn for the electric trams owned by the Metropolitan Tramways Trust (MTT) created after the nationalization of most of the private horse tram companies that served Greater Adelaide from 1878.
The Hackney Tram Depot was closed in 1992. All but one of the Tram Barns were demolished in 1999.
The land for Botanic Park is owned by the State Government and is NOT part of the Adelaide Park Lands.
After settlement at North Terrace in 1837, the Adelaide Park Lands were used for many different uses including water gathering, quarries, timber getting, grazing and slaughter houses.
In 1852 the Adelaide City Council was given the task of managing the Adelaide Park Lands and associated activities.
In 2005 the Adelaide Park Lands Authority was established to manage the Adelaide Park Lands.
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#Adelaide (/ˈædəleɪd/ (About this sound listen) AD-ə-layd) is the capital city of the state of South #Australia, and the fifth-most populous city of Australia. In June 2016, Adelaide had an estimated resident population of 1,326,354. South Australia, with a total of 1.7 million inhabitants, has the most centralised population of any state in Australia, with more than 75 percent of its people living in greater Adelaide, while the other population centres in the state are relatively small.
Adelaide is north of the Fleurieu Peninsula, on the Adelaide Plains between the Gulf St Vincent and the low-lying Mount Lofty Ranges which surround the city. Adelaide stretches 20 km (12 mi) from the coast to the foothills, and 94 to 104 km (58 to 65 mi) from #Gawler at its northern extent to Sellicks Beach in the south.
Named in honour of Adelaide of #Saxe-Meiningen, queen consort to King William IV, the city was founded in 1836 as the planned capital for a freely-settled British province in Australia. #Colonel #William Light, one of Adelaide's founding fathers, designed the city and chose its location close to the River Torrens, in the area originally inhabited by the Kaurna people. Light's design set out Adelaide in a grid layout, interspaced by wide boulevards and large public squares, and entirely surrounded by parklands.
آدلاید (به انگلیسی: Adelaide) مرکز و پرجمعیتترین شهر ایالت استرالیای جنوبی و پنجمین شهر پرجمعیت استرالیا است. جمعیت این شهر در ژوئن ۲۰۱۴ حدود ۱/۳ میلیون نفر تخمین زده شد. به ساکنان شهر آدلاید «آدلایدین» میگویند.
آدلاید شهری ساحلی است که در ساحل شرقی خلیج سنت وینسنت در «آدلاید پلین» بنا شدهاست. این شهر در شمال شبه جزیره «فلوریو» مابین خلیج «سنت وینسنت» و رشته کوههای کم ارتفاع «لافتی» قرار گرفتهاست. نواحی شهری حدوداً بیست کیلومتر از ساحل به سمت رشته کوهها گسترش یافتهاند در حالیکه حدود ۱۰۰ کیلومتر از «گاولر» و حدود شمالی آن در ساحل «سلیکس» فاصله دارند.
به عنوان مرکز دولتی و تجاری استرالیای جنوبی، آدلاید مؤسسات دولتی و اقتصادی بسیاری را در خود جای دادهاست. بیشتر این مراکز در مرکز شهر و در امتداد بلوار «نورث تراس» خیابان «کینگ ویلیام» و محلات مختلف مرکزی شهر جای گرفتهاند. امروزه آلاید به خاطر جشنوارههای گوناگون و رویدادهای ورزشی مختلف، غذا، شراب، فرهنگ، خط ساحلی طولانی و صنایع نظامی گوناگون شهرت دارد. این شهر در فهرست مجله «اکونومیست» برای قابل سکونتترین شهرهای دنیا جزو ده شهر اول در سال ۲۰۱۰ شناخته شد و در سال ۲۰۱۱ توسط «شورای املاک استرالیا» بهترین شهر قابل سکونت نامیده شد.
این شهر در سال ۱۸۳۶ به عنوان مرکز اسکان مهاجرین آزاد بریتانیایی بنا نهاده شد و نام آن به افتخار ملکه آدلاید، همسر آلمانی شاه ویلیام چهارم برگزیده شد. سرهنگ ویلیام لایت شهر را طرحریزی کرد و موقعیت آن را در نزدیکی رودخانه «تورنز»، محلی که زیستگاه اصلی مردم «کاورنا» بود انتخاب کرد. لایت نقشه آدلاید را به صورت شبکهای طرحریزی کرد که در آن بلوارهای عریض و میادین بزرگی در نظر گرفته شدهاست که با پارک احاطه شدهاند. آدلاید در بدو تأسیس بر مبنای آزادی مذهبی و پایبندی به پیشرویی سیاسی و آزادیهای مدنی شکل گرفت و به همین جهت به آن «شهر کلیساها» میگویند.
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River Torrens Linear Park after the Flood Greater Adelaide and Highbury Aquaduct Video Sept 2016
Highbury is on the North Bank and Athelston on the South Bank of the River Torrens adjacent to the Mt Lofty Ranges.
The bank of the River Torrens from the Gorge is now in a Linear Park that extends from Highbury and Athelston to the Gulf St Vincent near Henley Beach.
With a Mediterranean Climate, Adelaide gets most of its rainfall in Winter and Early Spring. This can cause flooding to occur in Winter and Early Spring.
Originally settled by the Kaurna Tribe of Australian Aborigines. Kaurna numbers were greatly reduced by at least two devastating epidemics of smallpox which preceded European settlement.
In 1802 Capt Matthew Flinders & Captain Nicolas Baudin independently charted the coast around Adelaide. Captain Flinders named Mt Lofty.
1831 Captain Collet Barker survey the area and climbed Mt Lofty. The area was still part of the colony of New South Wales at that time.
1834 the Province of South Australia was established by Act of British Parliament.
1835 South Australian Company formed by Act of British Parliament. The company was authorized to enable the settlement the new colony.
1836 by white settlers arrived as an early example of TOD (Transport Orientated Development) promoted by Edward Wakefield instead of granting free land to settlers as had happened in other colonies, the land should be sold. The money from land purchases would be used solely to transport labourers to the colony free of charge, who were to be responsible and skilled workers rather than paupers and convicts. Land prices needed to be high enough so that workers who saved to buy land of their own remained in the workforce long enough to avoid a labour shortage
1850 Adelaide's population was around 11,000 and required 500 cartloads of water a day from the River Torrens
1859 Gorge Weir was built to supply the villages of Adelaide and Glenelg with reticulated water.
The Gorge Weir is shown in August 2015 and September of 2016.
The heavy rain in September 2016 caused some minor flooding.
Only one footbridge was damaged in the Highbury section of the River Torrens Linear Park
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The walk takes about 14 minutes if you get green lights at the road crossings.
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