28 Sept 2016

Padovans Crossing

A white Early Nancy Wurmbea dioica. The usual purple band is not there, but there is a very faint almost tan coloured band.


My first Candles for spring Stackhousia monogyna


and first Sundews Drosera spp


Wedge-leaf Wattle Acacia pravissima


Black Wattle Acacia decurrens


Austral Indigo Indigophera australis starting to flower



Also first Echidna for spring


The view usually reserved for too-close photographers



View north to Two Sticks Hill - the twin peak in the middle



Views to the Tidbinbilla mountains




18 Sept 2016

Two Sticks Hill

Blackwood Acacia melanoxylon is in flower now


Last year's seeds and the flowers together


Red Stringybark buds and fruit Eucalyptus macrorhyncha 





Bear's Ears Cymbonotus spp



Hard to see, but the cleared area under the powerlines was a vast field of Early Nancys Wurmbea dioica




Site of the old Sherwood Homestead.  The homestead is long gone but the daffodils remain. In a sea of violets.




Closeups of some of the flowers. The daffodils are the variety Rip Van Winkle, first planted here at the homestead about 100 years ago.



 

View to Mt Dowling from the Sherwood grave site


Two Sticks Hill, its the one on the left


Rocky things on Two Sticks Hill.




Views from the Two Sticks Hill saddle into Brindabella National Park NSW



10 Sept 2016

Mt Cohen

Red-leaf Wattle Acacia rubida  


Ploughshare Wattle Acacia gunnii, low shrub with pale early flowers, spiky wedge shaped leaf


My first Early Nancy Wurmbea dioicia this spring - growing right on the border



Scribbly gum Eucalyptus rossii was dominant in the non-pine areas


A few markers along the ACT border- this was my favourite clearly showing "CT" which may mean Commonwealth Territory- uncertain.



Some other border markers






Mt Cohen Trig- just to show I was there




Views





4 Sept 2016

Deadmans Hill

Velvety new shoots of Blanket Bush Bedfordia arborescens


Detail of the bark


Whole plant grows up to 6m.


Snowy Daisy Bush Olearia lirata had some early flowers


Lots of Royal Grevillea Grevillea victoriae


Granite cracked in a giant "X"



View of the Spinnaker from the "X"


View of Booroomba Rocks