Coming back from Lane Cove Bushland Park, I got off the train at Milsons Point and waited till 6 pm when the lights of the Vivid Festival where turned on. My plan was to wander around near Luna Park and then around the nearby foreshore and across the Harbour Bridge for more photos. This gave me quite a different perspective of the Vivid Festival then what I had obtained the evening before.
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Lane Cove Bushland Park is well known for its colourful Hygrophoraceae fungi. It was one place that I regularly visited last yea during the fungi season. This season, the fungi there seemed fairly slow to appear.
Hygrocybe lanecovensis
I went and had a look yesterday afternoon – and found that quite a lot of fungi was out. I arrived in the middle of the afternoon. I should have arrived much earlier as there was still much to see as it got to dark to see it. As well as Hygrocybes and related genera, I saw a few types of coral fungi. Continue reading
This was my first visit to Vivid for the current festival. It was the opening night and there was a little rain at times – but this did not seem to deter the visitors – it was packed! Lots and lots of people seemed to be enjoying the light festival.
I started at the Opera House and then made my way to Circular Quay and then past the Overseas Passenger Terminal, under the Harbour Bridge and around the Walsh Bay and then back to the Quay. On my way I saw a fair few of the exhibits but no where near all of them. I will have to make another visit or two. Continue reading
A little bit of rain can facilitate the sudden appearance of stinkhorn fungi. A lot more of the Sea Anemone Stinkhorn – Aseroë rubra had emerged from the wood chips in the park at Dulwich Hill so I thought I would wander up and take some photos.
Phallus rubicundus
I also thought it worthwhile to see if any were out along the Cooks River. There were – more of the phallic shaped Phallus rubicundus. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
I had a pleasant day wandering along the coast. I was on a trip with Digi Dave
We had a lunch appointment in Cronulla, so before that we walked along the coast near Cronulla Beach towards Sandshoes Beach. Continue reading
On the way to the shops at Dulwich Hill I walk past a park and a while back a truckload or two of wood chips have been dumped at one corner. The nutrients from fresh wood chips are liked by stinkhorn fungi and it was nice to see a lot of “Sea Anemone” or “Starfish” Stinkhorns out the other day.
These are Aseroë Rubra, and were the first fungi that were scientifically described in Australia (1805). Like all stinkhorns they have a nasty smell that attracts flies. The flies help spread to fungal spores. Continue reading
Wendy had organised a nice walk in the Lower Blue Mountains from Warrimoo to Blaxland via Florabella Pass down to close to Glenbrook Creek and the climbing back out to Blackland via Pippas Pass.
In the party was Wendy, Digi Dave, Rob, Chantel, John, Chuin Nee, Jasper, Martin, Steffy and myself. Continue reading
This was another in a series of activities organised by the Sydney Fungal Studies Group Inc. This time the venue was Mill Creek on the Hawkesbury River. It is located a few kilometres downstream of Wisemans Ferry. At the creek is a camping and picnic area and a few tracks. We wandered up the track that follows the creek upstream through wet sclerophyll forest.
At first it seemed that not too much fungi was out, but as we continued, and with a sizeable group of people looking we soon found plenty of fungi. Continue reading
On my previous trip, a few days before, I and found lot of interesting fungi at Sassafras Gully and after a fairly poor trip to Bola Creek, I thought it may be worth heading back up the mountains for a more careful look at Sassafras Gully. It was certainly worthwhile.
Hygrocybe graminicolor
This time I concentrated my efforts to finding fungi in a small area – along Sassafras Gully between the junction of the Victory Track and the track from Sassafras Gully Rd and the junction with Sassfras Gully Creek and Glenbrook Creek. I went in via the track from Sassafras Gully Rd and out via the Wiggins Track from Bee Farm Rd. So a short round trip – but I spent plenty of time looking for and photographing the fungi. Continue reading
