Bob and myself spent another interesting day in the Blue Mountains exploring a number of heritage sites.
On an earlier trip, we had missed an Aboriginal engraving site. It was not too difficult to get to, so we checked it out first. I had read about this site in an old newspaper article. Continue reading
The Watergate Reserve is located near Sailors Bay between Castlecrag and Northbridge. I had visited the reserve as part of the walk I did in 2017 – part of the Round Willoughby Walk and I thought then that it looked like good fungi habitat. Now I was back for a short visit with my camera and tripod.
Gliophorus viridis
I found a fair bit of fungi, but most of it had been desiccated by the recent dry windy weather. Continue reading
It was nice to join Brian Everingham and others from the National Parks Association for a walk in Royal National Park. Brian, the leader, had advertised the walk as a photographic walk – with fungi and orchids as the subjects – and we certainly did well with both.
Toothed Helmut Orchid – Corybas pruinosus
Sue and myself, got a lift from Heathcote to the start with Brian and on the way down, we stopped off at the lower end of the Couranga Track to looks for orchids. Brain soon spotted two species – Continue reading
I spent some time at Barton Park photographing birds, with a few more photos taken along sections of the Cooks River. Like some previous recent visits, it was a Nankeen Kestrel that provided most of the subject matter.
I started at the Cooks River near the Princes Highway. On the south side I saw a Little Pied Cormorant – Continue reading
I joined a group of friends for a wander around Sydney – starting from Darling Harbour and making our way around the foreshore to Circular Quay looking at the Vivid installations.
Being a Saturday night – it was very crowded – a bit of a shock after all our recent social distancing due to Covid. Here are some photos – Continue reading
This was another good survey of the fungi at Bola Creek with members of The Sydney Fungal Studies Group Inc and visitors. We found a good range of fungi, including quite a few waxcaps.
Hygrocybe anomala var. anomala
I will start with some of the waxcaps we found – Continue reading
I spent an an enjoyable and interesting afternoon with Digi Dave at Barton Park photographing birds.
We first went to Landing Lights Wetland, but it ws pretty quiet, so we then headed to the old sporting fields near the Golf Firing Range. Here we spotted a distant Nankeen Kestrel. It was perched on a lamp, and we walked closer. Continue reading
This was a very interesting walk with Bob and we were joined by Peter. Our plan was to look at some Aboriginal sites in the Blue Mountains. It was an area that Bob and myself had explored before for Aboriginal sites and so had Peter, and this time we would compare notes to get a bigger picture. A lot of these sites are sensitive so I will not detail the specific locations.
The sites we visited included sharpening grooves, rock engravings and also pigment and charcoal art in caves. Continue reading
I was able to visit Springwood again, and this time I put in a fairly full day visiting Sassafras Gully first – and doing the long loop – down Magdala Creek to Glenbrook Creek, up to the Lagoon, then walking out via Sassafras Gully Road. Then back in Springwood, I decided I had enough time fora quick visit to Birdwood Gully.
Humidicutis sp.
First here is some fungi from Magdala Creek – Continue reading
I was originally intending to head up to the Blue Mountains for a fungi walk, but the weather up there looked bad, and there was rain approaching on the radar, so I changed plans and echoed to do local walk where I could be flexible if bad weather arrived. As it turns out I had quite a reasonable day. I carried a tripod and macro lens for fungi, but ended up photographing more birds than fungi.
The fungi was not as good as it had been a week before. Some was still out, but most had vanished and little more had emerged. Continue reading
