Keen to go look for orchids in the dry scherophyll forest inland. Day shaping up too hot to cycle 20 kms in and then back. My wife wanted to go into town to do some phone changes. Great - caught a lift and ride back
Ride from Nowra Plaza across the river and up the hill to North Nowra
Ride right into Bomadery Creek Regional Park - saw a flash of blue in the long grass. Bottom flower just opening
Hard to get ID as the bottom petal is obscuring the column. Did not want to apply coaxing pressure
A bit more angle - very clear is the notched lobe like a horse hoof. Thinking thelymitra peniculata but no record of that in my local guide book - it says thelymitra pauciflora
Purple fan flower opening for the first time this season
Under the powerlines walk to find sun orchids - found one seeded
These are just opening up - first of the conesticks
Got an eye for the blue - dampiera stricta
Hibbertia stricta - note the green tendrils
Lambertia formosa.
Pale grass lily
Lily day - purple fringe lily
Drumsticks flower
Found this budding. No leaf to be seen - a few bracts forming. No real idea what orchid it is - too late for diuris. Lack of leaf suggests dipodium. Hope to get back to see it flower - there were two
Flowering right down at ground level
Matching leaves - goodenia - not been able to ID which
White kunzea
Lambertia formosa with a few ants
Burchardia umbrellata
Snake orchid up high - 3 metres above ground
Zoom in is a compromise - cymbidium suave
Zoom in more does show the structure of sepals, petals and labellum. Step ladder needed
Walk back became a oea flower day - pink
Yellow
Orange
Not sure what this is - a pea flower finished or something else
Trigger flower - too bright to show the pink
Three orchid walk is a win - one to see in a week or two open, one not seen open here and a sun orchid for spring
Road back passes the railway line to Manildra. Loco assembling the next train out.
Rest break at the Broughton Creek bridge with view of the Shoalhaven River
Ride done - orchids found - 4.4kms missing from the Strava record
My wife had bought fish and chips for her lunch. What she left made a perfect lunch heated up in the airfryer
Dinner: Chicken pasta dish with bacon.
Trade action: Late night adjusting LTBR, EU, CCJ, GEVO. Earlier was GLE.PA, HFG.DE
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