16 Sept 2018

AAWT - Day 2 - Bushfold Flats to Booroomba Rocks

Dry open grassland at Bushfold Flats


Looking to our destination between Deadmans Hill (left) and Booroomba Rocks (centre)


Blackwood Acacia melanoxylon at Reads Hut


One of only two Cymbonotus flowers today


A very dead pig


The trap nearby


Wombat skull


Silver wattle Acacia dealbata. Not flowering as profusely as this time last year.


Ruins of Bushfold Flats hut


Very old Apple Box from the farm days Eucalyptus bridgesiana


Tiny, tiny flowers of Dwarf Cherry Exocarpos strictus


Caterpillar of Pasture Day Moth Apino callisto. The caterpillar burrows into the ground to pupate. Here is an adult moth that was prepared earlier.


One of only two Hovea heterophylla plants in flower seen today. It's been a dry year.


The beautiful wet mountain forest near Booroomba Rocks