Atli, a nature photographer, on visit from Iceland, was keen to see the fungi in Sassafras Gully and had invited Gemma and myself to join him. We started from the track at the end of Sassafras Gully Road.
We soon found a lot of fungi and slime moulds out, so we had a busy day with our photography. As well and fungi and slime moulds we also found other interesting things such as a mass of sawfly larvae (these later metamorphose into the sawflies that are responsible for fertilising Flying Duck Orchids).
Lower down was a nice cluster of Bonnet Orchids.
With three people looking for fungi we were able to spot a lot of interesting things. Here are some of what we found –
Fungi –
Slime Moulds –
This beautiful slime mould on a dead leaf was particularly interesting –
We returned back along the track 3 – 4 hours later and found the same leaf again. The slime mould was now quite different –
More photos, together with my identification are online on my website here.
