Slow start after a better night. My wife headed out early for coffee with a friend. Spent the morning doing accounts stuff and publishing the weekly investing post
Headed out in the bike after lunch to walk a few tracks in Seven Mile Beach NP. Took a side track that goes away from the ocean side - sure to find pink fingers orchids. Paper daisies to start like last visit
Pink fingers are a challenge for ID - pink form of caladenia catenata
Counted 32 on the way back to the road - 400 metres only. A few in frame here
Next variation - a few carmine bars on the back sepal - a hybrid with carnea
And the proper carmine banded version - caladenia carnea
Bike photo marks the change of track - back along the road for a bit and then down the beach access road
Back to ID challenge. No carmine bands - deeper colour and some colour on the labellum - maybe caladenia hilmanii
Struggling to get focus on the calli
Back to the carmine bands
Flower unfolding - narrow body makes focus hard work. Does show the hairs on the flower spike
Hardenbergia pea flower
A few dyanella open
Pea flower with great framing
Excited to find this orchid - not seen in Seven Mile Beach NP to date. Did find them on my first ever orchid walk. They stand out - a brown shape on the top of a leafless spike - potato orchid
Native violet - a few still around
Walked down to the beach - looking north to Gerroa
Looking south to Crookhaven Heads
Saw this spike - almost walked right past. Always good to find a 2nd instance of an orchid
Close up photos were poor - kept this one as it has a pollinator - potato orchid #2
There were two plants - this one fully open - gastrodia sesamoides
Challenging photo work as the opening to the column is very narrow
Happy with that one.
Lomandra are coming out all over
Back to the caladenia ID challenge - shaped like catenata. No carmine bands but a touch of red. Leaning to hilmanii but no yellow calli
Acianthus orchid seeded. Photo shows what orchids do after pollination - the spikes grows taller and pulls the leaf off the ground. That gives more height when the seed pods pop
Walked short way down the last side track till I found an orchid - probably caladena catenata - no bands but pink
Found this bike hidden in the bush - stolen and dumped or just dumped? Not in the best shape - guessing dumped.
Stopped on the way back to check a greenhood site. They are finished
Last remnants of the last flower - pterostylis oblonga or erecta
These pink fingers were close by - deep pink
Close up
Good to get a longer ride in and lots of steps
Spent an hour on my bottom pulling weeds in the front lawn
Dinner: Veal cutlets on BBQ with fried potato and broccolini
Trade action: Added to uranium - PUR.V, UROY. Adjusted XLK. Missed the hop in SASK.V
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