Saturday in Roath Park

Even in my recovering health state, I had to escape from the Blue Room and so decided to venture forth to Roath Park today. The Park is about a five minute bike ride from my house and I rode uphill to get there. So it took me more than 5 minutes. The good thing about this was that the ride back home was downhill!

The Park has a Conservatory, Rose Garden and a lake/pond thing that also houses gulls, swans, ducks and these amusing diving birds with white beaks and white insides of their mouths. This is the view from my first bench, that I had to leave when the sun went behind a tree behind me. It was a little hazy today, but if one looks carefully into the background, right above the trees, Caerphilly Mountain is just barely there. This is the northern-most border of the City of Cardiff. Development is not allowed to infringe past this point. Not sure if this is law or custom...... To the left is a little coffee shop being supervised by pigeons.

Also at the lake/pond is the Scott Monument. This was the most interesting picture of it because of the birds (i think). Read about the philosophy of speech acts between watching the funny birds establish pecking order. The black white-beaked ones lower their necks in a charging position when they are annoyed with another bird and swim after it until in pecking distance. Don't really know much about speech acts.

Here are more details of the Scott lighthouse, most notably, the blue door and the ship at the top.

Plaque reads: " To the memory of Captain R.F. Scott C.V.O., D.S.O., R.N. and his faithful companions Captain L.E.C. Oates, Lieut. H.R. Bowers, Dr. E.A. Wilson and Petty Officer Edgar Evans who sailed in the S.S. Terra Nova from the Port of Cardiff June 15th, 1910 to locate the South Pole, and in pursuit of that great and scientific task, laid down their lives in the Antarctic regions. March 1912.
BRITONS ALL AND VERY GALLANT GENTLEMEN
Erected and presented to the City of Cardiff by F.C. Bowring, Esq. J.P.
1915."

Ship at top of lighthouse is a miniature of the S.S. Terra Nova.


Flowers are just coming to the end of the season, but there are still a few lingering about :)



Interested persons may wish to review the posts from Torquay as I am about to try to upload pictures to those.