On the second day of my visit to Hazelbrook, I took the opportunity of spending the morning walking down to Terrace Falls and Bedford Creek, and then going along the linking fire road to the Cataract Falls and the circuit at Lawson.
Like the previous day, the fungi was not abundant, but it was more dispersed that on the previous day. I also took the opportunity of photographing some of the waterfalls and cascades along the way.
Here is an attractive waterfall downstream of Terrace Falls.
A little lower down the track I found what I think is Hygrophorus involutus –
The best fungi I found near Bedford Creek at a place called Picnic Point.
Gliophorus chromolimoneus –
Hygrocybe batesii –
Geastrum triplex –
And this large fungus was at the base of a tree –
Gloeocantharellus novae-zelandiae –
I took the old track from Picnic Point back to the base of Terrace Falls. The track goes high on the west side of the creek and is rough and a bit overgrown, but better than it was when I first went that way a few years ago.
Terrace Falls
It is god to see that a log that fallen part way down these falls has been washed downstream.
Here is the lower bit of the falls –
And the cascade below –
This cascade is upstream –
Perhaps Ramariopsis kunzei –
Back on the fire road, I walked around to the south part of the Lawson South Side Waterfall Circuit. This takes you to just above Cataract Falls.
Hygrocybe collucera
Greenhood Orchid – Pterostylis grandiflora
Gliophorus chromolimoneus –
Federal Falls
Cortinarius rotundisporus
Junction Falls
Cantherellus concinnus –
Hygrocybe batesii –
