Macgregor is named after Sir William MacGregor - a former Governor of Queensland, Governor of Lagos colony Nigeria, administrator in British New Guinea and the first Chancellor of the University of QLD. Sir MacGregor was originally from Scotland where he was a medical assistant in the lunatic asylum at Aberdeen. He was good at all that eradication of tuberculosis stuff as well.
The streets here are again in a logical Canberran manner named after medical professionals.
As we entered this suburb, we were greeted by beautiful red flowers and unusual garden art work...
We decided to head straight to the highest point of the suburb - Mount Goodwin - as you can't have a proper Canberra suburban visit without at least climbing a hill if not a mountain! We were certainly not disappointed by the views - though it did seem so dry and dusty up here - and very very hot...
The rest of the suburb left me with rather bizarre contrasting feelings of either being stuck in the middle of uber surburbia or in the middle of nowhere - with the other side of the road quite frequently just being 'empty'.
If you drive a bit further down Parkwood drive past Macgregor, you then actually literally come to the end of the road and end up in New South Wales talking to cows.
Not before you drive past a substation, a tip and the interestingly named 'sustainability street' though...
Before I conclude this blog post, I would have liked to include a link to a lovely blog post raving about the amazing cafe at Macgregor shops but unfortunately I can't because it wasn't :( But it does have a red colour scheme and my fellow adventurer liked his BLT without the B.
But on a happier note I spent a lot of my time in Macgregor being chased by butterflies and failing spectacularly to take a photo of them. I finally managed - well sort of - but it would be wrong not to include!
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