I was a bit worried about the weather as I headed up to Springwood, and it was raining lightly as I left the station and walk to the star of the track. But the rain turned out to be relatively minor and the fungi was quite good.
I started down from Boland Avenue and walked down towards Springwood Creek. I then walked up the track towards Lucinda Avenue (I found an old sign saying the creek there was Shelly Creek). I later returned the same way. Continue reading
I thought it was about time to make a visit to Ferndale Park at Chatswood to see what fungi was out.
My plan was to visit the park, then walk down to the Lane Cove River and follow the path downstream. Continue reading
After the amazing experience a few days before, I thought about returning and staying longer to try and get some better photos of the pink Flannel Flowers currently in bloom along the ridge.
So I decided that an overnight trip would be worthwhile. I caught a train to Mt Victoria and then walked out the start of the ridge. This took about an hour, and except for the first part of the walk (back along the Highway to the railway crossing, then over the footbridge and continuing a little further before crossing over to the fire road) was mostly pleasant. I was on the lookout for orchids as I walked – and I eventually found a small cluster of the old Midge Orchids – Continue reading
This was a pleasant activity organise by Brian Everingham with the National Parks Association of NSW. I travelled to the park with Valerie and Sue and we met the others at Lake Belvedere a little after 7 am. In the rest of the party was as well as Brian was Sue W, Ken, Ann and later Helen.
We first visited Lake Belvedere, then the large Waterbird Refuge and then walked back via the mangroves and the Bennelong Pond. We finished at lunchtime. Continue reading
I was due to do a bushwalk or canyon with Bob. Since the forecast for the Mountains was for a maximum of only 17°C and some showers, we decided that a walk may be more appropriate. I suggested visiting Ikara Head on the Asgard Plateau at Mt Victoria. Neither of us had visited this part of the Blue Mountains and it would allows us to see some more pink Flannel Flowers.
So, we set out on the walk, and though we had both seen great displays of the pink Flannel Flowers recently, we were both amazed by what we saw on Ikara Ridge. Their proliferation was incredible. Continue reading
I spent a nice day at Taronga Zoo. I had chosen a quiet time to make my visit – a day with a forecast for some rain, and not on a weekend or school holidays. And it certainly was quiet there – very few visitors. But the animals were great.
Here are some animals – Continue reading
I had just visited the Australian Museum and had some spare time in the afternoon, so I walked into the nearby Royal Botanic Gardens for a look. There are plenty of photographic subjects in these gardens, and on my last visit, I had not been able to spot the Powerful Owls. This time I found one early on.
As soon as I walked under the tree it was roosting in, to opened its eyes and observed me. Continue reading
It had been a while since I had visited the Australian Museum in Sydney. It had just been refurbished, so I thought it was about time to make a visit. It was well worth seeing even though not all the collections were open.
Here are a variety of things that I saw – Continue reading
After visit Nurragingy, on the way home, I detoured to Concord West, and then walked into Sydney Olympic Park. I visited the Waterbird Refuge at Bicentennial Park and then the ponds of Wentworth Common. I also visited the Brickpit and the Woo-la-ra hill. This was late afternoon, and I wanted to see what birds were out during those hours.
Dollarbird
In the Waterbird Refuge, I saw the usual birds. But didn’t see any raptors at Woo-la-ra. Other birds that I was after were Crakes and Rails at Wentworth Common – I had no luck. Continue reading
I spent another nice day out at Nurragingy Reserve at Doonside. Like previous visits, I was hoping to see more of the Kingfishers – the Azure and Sacred, but as it turned out, I didn’t see any of the Azure Kingfishers. I only saw a single Sacred Kingfisher just before I left the Reserve in the early afternoon. But there were a lot of other nice birds to see – as well as some reptiles (some in the beaks of birds).
Here are some of the birds I saw – Continue reading
