Late night in markets makes for a slow morning. Sun is out and I am committed to getting out. Packed a sandwich and drove over Cambewarra Mountain with a view to go to Fitzroy Falls.
Long time since I have been able to stop to take a photo of this sign - maybe 15 years ago cycling over this mountain. This time - traffic light stop for roadworks to fix landslips from 2 years ago
Took the turn off to Tallawah Dam past Morton NP - found a side road to park and walk. Not walked this side of the NP - have walked up above.
Some delicate flowers on the way - pea flower
NSW coral heath flower - epacris pulchella
Sundew flower
Autumn is about mushrooms - all sorts of colours
This is what happens to the one before - it starts to flatten out and fold up the show the underside
The road was recently remade - maybe two years ago. All the material they push aside lands up on the verge and suppresses growth. Walk a bit on the road and a bit on the verge. Saw this leaf on the verge - looks like a helmet orchid leaf - much smaller than the ones lower down the mountain
Bingo! A few feet away qas a flower - spurred helmet orchid - always excited to find an orchid on a new track
Side on photo shows the spurs - corysanthes aconitiflorus - English name is spurred helmet orchid
Did find a bonnet orchid leaf - back of the leaf is burgundy. Photo is a challenge as the leaf in front has the right shape but it is a vine leaf
The form of the mushrooms before they open up us fabulous - colours are too
Side by side - pretty too
Slender rice flower
Pine leafed geebung - the best photo of the day - includes a couple of ants
Top down view of banksia
Lambertia formosa
Mushroom miscellany
Side on view of mushrooms growing on a log
2nd orchid find of the day - budding acianthus orchid
Close up of the buds - hard to focus on something so small
More mushroom on log action
Mini mushrooms on a tree trunk - like a church organ pipes with bells
Cascaded around the trunk. Each mushroom is smaller than the tip of a baby finger
3rd orchid type found over the top of the hill as the road dropped into a bit more rainforest feel. Too bad the undergrowth looked like old farmland - never good for orchids
Maybe the best mid-size mushroom photo of the day - love the streaks of dark
Shows nicely how the mushrooms come out the ground bullet shaped and then start to flatten out
A few hibbertia flowering. Happy with this photo - the yellow likes to grab the light
View back down the track- shows well how the track work piles up the verges. Good side is I can drive a long way up the road to get to the rainforest
Not expecting to see a purple fan flower - starting to shrivel
Turned left to head a bit more toward the dam. Found this fire trail to walk down toward Kangaroo River
The walk was quite different - more rocky, different flowers and no orchids. Not seen this flower before - grows on a shrub and the red flowers start out claw shaped. Then the spike pops out
This one is a little more uniform in the way it opened up
View down the trail - more sandstone based - different vegetation - and only 2 kms from the other track
This little bird posed - quite a few metres away
Banksia - still a few around flowering
Top down view showing the petals dropping off
Lots of the wattle flowers - this cluster was tighter than normal making for easy photo work
Two good walks with quite different vegetation. Super quiet - lots of birds - no people and only occasional vehicle passing by close to the main road. Did have to drive with care as main road had lots of potholes - some big
Glad I made it out.
Dinner action: Pizza in honour of Giro d'Italia. Did not watch the start which was delayed 3 hours
Did a few trades late - am nearly fully invested. Only one new uranium trade - URG - first time buy
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