A visit to Sydney’s botanical gardens wouldn’t be complete without photos of the fruit bats, or flying foxes, as they’re called. On this day, they were agitated, due to the noise from the speedboats, so they were moving about more than they usually do during the day.

Bats & blossoms

The Colony (actually, one of many – there are over 7000 bats who reside in the gardens)

A close up of the flying fox during his nap – they really are quite cute, and you can see where the nickname comes from.

One of the many flowering trees in the gardens