Maquarie University

On Sunday, it was a lovely day - the best kind of winter day here. The sky was really blue and the weather was warm, up in the 70s. So we decided to get out and adventure a little bit. We took the train up north for a while to the Macquarie University station. We had no real reasons to go there, except that train rides are capped at $2.50 on Sundays and the university is the only interesting-sounding stop on the train route!

The university, it turns out, is just a five minute walk from the station. It was pretty quiet for a Sunday, so lots of cool birds were out.

The school seems to be basically a commuter school, as we saw pretty much nobody while we were walking around. Of course, maybe we are just getting old and our 11 AM visit was far too early for college kids after a Saturday night. 

We both really liked the campus; there was lots of green spaces and lots of artwork scattered around. It was more like a park than a school in some ways. 

The lake on campus 

There was also an actual nature walk on the campus near the biology buildings. It was small and short, but we really felt miles away from the city when were there!

On the nature walk!

Eucalyptus trees shedding their bark

Even though it wasn't high adventure, it felt great to be out of the house in the sunshine!