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
After some recent very good trips finding fungi in Birdwood Gully on the north side of Springwood. I thought it worth checking out some of the gullies on the south side. So I travelled up to Springwood by myself and set off down to Fairy Dell and Magdala Creek. I then reached Glenbrook Creek and walked upstream to Sassafras Gully, and then walked out via the track to Sassafras Gully Road. The fungi was quite reasonable.
First, here is some fungi from Magdala Creek.
High up, I often find Hygrocybe reesiae. I certainly found a lot of it here – Continue reading
One of the areas that I like to regularly visit to look for fungi is the Lane Cove River Valley. It had been a while since I had visited the upper section of the river, so I decided to do a walk from Thornleigh Oval to Browns Waterhole, then exit via Terrys Creek. The fungi was not as abundant asI had been hoping for, but with a large area covered, I did find a fair amount.
My first stop to photograph, was at the bottom of Lorna Pass. Just before the track crosses the creek, I found a number of coral species and some green waxcaps. Continue reading
I attended the field study of the Sydney Fungal Studies Group held at Ferndale Park at Chatswood. I was joined by 19 other keen fungi enthusiasts and we found a good diversity of interesting fungi.
Here is some of the fungi that we found – Continue reading
I travelled up to Springwood by train with Valerie and Sue to look for fungi down Birdwood Gully. After a coffee stop, we headed down the track from Boland Avenue and were soon down in the rainforest. Would the fungi be as good as my last visit? We would see.
The fungi was probably not quite as abundant as my previous trip, but it was still very good. Here are some that we saw – Continue reading
