Sassafras Gully has been one of the places I have been visiting this year on a regular basis to document its fungal resources. This vista I was accompanied by Atli, a nature photographer from Iceland. He also takes very fine fungi photographs and it was interesting to see that he could identify a lot of species here based on his European knowledge. He was also very good at spotting the interesting fungi in the gully that is often hard to see.
Like my previous visit, we entered the gully via the track at Sassafras Gully Road, walked all the way to the Glenbrook Creek junction and then walked out via the Wiggins Track and Bee Farm Rd.
Not far from the start of the track we spotted some orchids in flower. A nice start.
From previous visits I knew many of the “hotspots” where fungi seems to be concentrated. The first of these was pretty barren this visit, but further along some of the other spots yielded some good results.
Here are two of the slime moulds we found –
Here is a selection of the fungi –
For more photos together with identification see my gallery here.