During the afternoon and evening of the day before, a Saturday, around 100 mm of rain and fallen in Sydney. The Sunday forecast looked a lot better, so I set out for Ferndale Park to see how the fungi was going.
I found a fair bit out, although some of it had been washed out by too much heavy rain.
Here is a selection – Continue reading
Saturday was a very wet day – with close to 100 mm of rain falling. But the rain came later in the day, and the bird survey along the Dulwich Hill section of the Greenway went ahead as usual. (Note that this survey was not held on the usual day)
Here are some of the birds we saw – Continue reading
Bob had suggested a walk to visit Bennett Gully at Blackheath. So after parking at the Hat Hill carpark, we set off along the ridge up to Hat Hill and beyond out towards Bald Hill.
A lot of the way along there were great views. And some flowers – Native Iris – Continue reading
I had a few hours spare in the morning, so I made a visit to get an update on the fungi at Wolli Creek. I only had time to check out the area around Girrahween Park – downstream to the climbing area.
Here is some of the fungi I saw – Continue reading
I like to visit the Vivid Light Festival held in Sydney at this time of the year, when it gets dark early. The lights turn on at 6 pm, and that’s when I met Sue at Circular Quay. We first visited the Customs House –
We thought the art here, by Reg Mombasa was very good. We watched the whole cycle. Continue reading
It was time to head out to Malabar Headland to see if the Peregrine Falcons had reunited for the new breeding season. Sue could make it, but Valerie had other commitments. So I met Sue at Maroubra Beach and after a coffee stop, we walked out onto the headland.
At first things were fairly quiet. We saw the usual resident New Holland Honeyeaters – Continue reading
I attended the Field Study of the Sydney Fungal Studies Group at Wolli Creek Regional Park on Saturday morning. The Field Study was also open to members of the Wolli Creek Preservation Society. We met at Girrahween Park and after a briefing, we alls started looking for fungi. We went as far along the track at the old swimming pool between the climbing area and the Flying Fox Camp.
We had a great group of very enthusiastic people along and we found a very good range of fungi, although some was starting to dry out. Here is some of what we saw – Continue reading
Both Bob and myself were keen to do this “new” walk – along the cliffs from Katoomba to Wentworth Falls (or the other way). By “new”, it is really a walk that uses existing tracks – many of them refurbished recently – and done in a very good manner.
We decided to walk the slightly easier direction – downhill from Katoomba to Wentworth Falls. I had worked out a good plan to catch a train up the mountains and then shortly after it arrived in Katoomba, catch a bus to the Scenic World – which is the upper end of the walk. But this plan ddi not work. My connecting train was late and I missed the mountains train by seconds. I therefore had to wait about 30 minutes for the next Katoomba bound train. This train did not work of the bus link, so we ended up catching a taxi to Scenic World. Continue reading
I made a morning trip to get an update on the fungi I had seen the week before in a small section of the Lane Cove River in Lane Cove National Park. In particular I was interested in the Parrot Waxcap – Gliophorus psittacinus.
Walking down to the location, I found this nice Ramaria lorithamnus – Continue reading
Both Valerie and Sue were keen to see some of the fungi I had found recently in Wolli Creek Regional Park, so we decided to do a walk down from Bexlery North to Turrella via the Two Valleys Track. Along the way, we found some nice fungi.
The upper section, between Bexley Road and Hartill-law Avenue was quite poor. Continue reading
