Red Gum Park Walk  - 24 December 2015

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I started this short walk at Bullaburra via Noble Street to De Quency Street and then down the track at the end of that street. The park is small but very interesting.



Above - I saw three of these structures, which look to me like aboriginal wells









Above - Bonnet Orchid - Cryptostylis erecta



Above - Bonnet Orchid - Cryptostylis erecta



Above - Bonnet Orchid - Cryptostylis erecta



Above - Minnatonka Falls



Above - Small Tongue Orchid - Cryptostylis leptochila



Above - Small Tongue Orchid - Cryptostylis leptochila





Above - Red Gums - Angophora costata. The park is named after these trees. The land was once owned by Sir Henry Parkes.



Above - the picnic area



Above - nearby is this dam which was once a swimming pool. The dam wall was deliberately broken when the water became too polluted due to a piggery and septic tanks in the catchment.



Above - Bonnet Orchid - Cryptostylis erecta



Above - Large Tongue Orchid - Cryptostylis subulata



Above - Large Tongue Orchid - Cryptostylis subulata



Above - Large Tongue Orchid - Cryptostylis subulata



Above - Banksia serrata

The remaining photos were taken in bush at Woodford -



Above - A sawfly, perhaps a Paperbark Sawfly - Lophyrotoma zonalis (thanks to Ryan Craig for help with the id)





Above - Trigger Plant - Stylidium graminifolium



Above - Perhaps an orchid? (with an insect shell)



Above - Banksia serrata



Above - Banksia serrata

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