Lake Burley-Griffin is a large lake that the Australian national capitol of Canberra is built around. The lake was formed with the damming of the Molonglo River that runs into Canberra. The lake is named after American landscape architect Walter Burley Griffin who designed the city of Canberra. From the lake you can see just about every important monument and building in the city.
The lake is ringed with walking paths and jogging trails and usually when I visit Canberra I usually go for a jog around the lake. I get up early in the morning to go for a jog and occasionally I see hot air balloons rising above the city:
In the early morning the water is almost glass like with how smooth it is:
Much of the lake is surrounded by leafy trees such as this:
The lake is also populated with many ducks and swans:
From just about anywhere along the lake you can see the Telstra Tower that hovers over Canberra:
The Telstra Towers sits on top of Black Mountain and rises 195 meters. Like most towers it has a viewing platform and a rotating restaurant that are of course pricey.
Besides the Telsra Tower there are plenty of good views of the Australian national capitol to be had as well:
Lake Burley-Griffin is just one of the many things I like about one of the most under appreciated cities in Australia, Canberra.
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10:17 am on May 16th, 2008 1
[...] constructed inside of a hill in the very center of Canberra overlooking the Old Parliament House, Lake Burley-Griffin, and the numerous monuments located in the national [...]
10:35 am on May 30th, 2008 2
[...] park in all of Canberra that is worth spending lunch at are the Japanese Gardens snuggled against Lake Burley-Griffin near the Yarralumla foreign embassy sector of the [...]
9:05 am on June 27th, 2008 3
[...] top of Mt. Ainsle to check out. Besides Mt. Ainsle make sure to take a walk at least around the Lake Burley-Griffin area at night because that is where you get the best ground level views of Canberra at night. It was [...]