Category Archives: Blue Mountains

Sassafras Gully After Rain – 6 June 2016

Posted on June 8, 2016 by Dave Noble

The weekend just before this walk had been wet. Very wet! The Blue Mountains had not received as much rain as the Cumberland Plain, but still had had a fair amount. Enough to make it worth getting up early and seeing … Continue reading →

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Donkey Mountain Walk – 28 – 29 May 2016

Posted on May 30, 2016 by Dave Noble

A second visit to Donkey Mountain in as many weeks? Why not? It a good place to go to, and besides we had some birthdays to celebrate. Jasper was about to turn four, and he was keen to revisit Donkey … Continue reading →

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Mt Banks Traverse – 18 May 2016

Posted on May 19, 2016 by Dave Noble

This was a midweek walk with Bob. We both had the traverse along the side of Mt Banks on our short lists for a while. I am not sure who first completed this traverse as a bushwalking trip. It links … Continue reading →

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Sassafras Gully – Fungi and Slime Moulds – 15 April 2016

Posted on April 17, 2016 by Dave Noble

This was another of my regular trips to Sassafras Gully to record what fungi was out. My previous visit was about two weeks earlier, and that hadn’t been dry good – the fungi out then was quite limited. Since then, there … Continue reading →

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Blue Mountains Weekend – a Walk and a Canyon – 2 – 3 April 2016

Posted on April 4, 2016 by Dave Noble

I travelled up the mountains with friends John and Chuin Nee and their two young boys, Jasper and Sebastian. At Blackheath, Chuin Nee head off to Heathcliff to join Enmoore and Stu for a day of climbing. John and myself … Continue reading →

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Sassafras Gully Fungi – 1 April 2016

Posted on April 4, 2016 by Dave Noble

It had been a while since I had visited Sassafras Gully and I was not that hopeful of finding a lot of fungi because there had not been too much recent rain. This turned out to be the case. I … Continue reading →

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Canyoning in the Wollangambe Wilderness – 23 March 2016

Posted on March 31, 2016 by Dave Noble

Bob and myself headed up the mountains with the intention to visit a canyon in the Wollangambe Wilderness. It was a canyon that surprisingly enough Bob had not visited before. Bob, after all, had been on many exploratory trips into … Continue reading →

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Leura Forest – a Look for Fungi and Orphan Rock – 20 March 2016

Posted on March 29, 2016 by Dave Noble

After recent rain, I thought that a return to Leura Forest could be worthwhile to look to see if any fungi was out. I walked down from Leura Station to Leura Cascades and then walked down the cascades and then … Continue reading →

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Fungi at Mt Wilson – 19 March 2016

Posted on March 29, 2016 by Dave Noble

I went on a field activity organised by the Sydney Fungal Studies Group Inc to the Waterfall Reserve at Mt Wilson. It had been raining lightly during the week before the field activity, but not enough for a lot of … Continue reading →

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Sassafras Gully – A Look for Fungi – 18 March 2016

Posted on March 21, 2016 by Dave Noble

I went on a walk down Sassafras Gully at Springwood to see if any fungi was out after recent rain. The rain had only been light, so I didn’t expect to see too much. As it turned out – there … Continue reading →

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