Balboa Park Day

Today was Balboa Park day for us. We retraced a trail we blazed to the park yesterday with little difficulty except the GPS was not happy with our trail. Traffic was no problem at around 9 am when we were on the road. Parking was easy to find. In fact at lunch time we went off site to eat and returned to a closer in parking area.
Balboa Park consists of 1,200 acres total including the Zoo. I took many pictures of the buildings that housed various museums. They are said to be Spanish Colonial Revival style buildings. See some of the photos below. We spent all of our time covering all the grounds that included for us the Botanical Building, Cactus Gardens, Rose Gardens, and Palm Canyons plus much more. We did not go into the Zoo today. That will be covered tomorrow or the next day. I must have liked what I saw as I took about 160 pictures today at the park.

This tower included a set of chimes that would ring on some routine basis.

This was typical of the outside decor of many of the buildings.

The effect observed looking down the outside entryway hallway of one of the buildings

This is actually not a picture from the cactus garden, but includes flowers and cactus as observed in the official cactus garden.

Pictures of orchids in the Botanical Building shown for my sister. They must have been having a special orchid exhibit as they were all over the building.




The flower of a Bird of Paradise plant. There were several groups of them in the park.
Most of them seem to be at their peak of flowering now.