AAWT - Day 7-8 - Orroral Valley Track to Cotter Dam Track

Yellow-winged Locusts everywhere Gastrimargus musicus

Storms in the Valley- High Tor on the Orroral Ridge at left is the Belfry

Orroral River, storms coming in

Morning

Kangaroo Grass Themeda triandra

Purple Loosestrife Lythrum salicaria

Leaf Beetle larvae Paropsis sp.

Huntsman on my raincoat

Candlebark trunks standing out in their fiery summer colours Eucalyptus rubida

Lucky enough to see this Gastrimargus musicus drying her new wings- the spent case is on the ground below.

Pale Cup Moth caterpillar Doratifera pinguis

Shelly Beach

A tiny little beach

Banksia pod

Its called Shelly Beach but really should be Rocky Beach

Rock colours when wet

Chiton shell

And now, my first attempt at underwater species photography/id/snorkelling with a child:

Waratah Anemone Actinia tenebrosa
The stripey shells are Zebra Topshells Austrocochlea porcata
The bumpy shell upper centre is Mulberry Shell Morula marginalba

Probably a Scad Trachurus sp.

Heres a very common Smooth Toadfish Tetractenos glaber 

Neptunes Necklace Hormosira banksii

Aslings Beach

Another fabulous beach....

The red creature is a Sea Tulip Pyura gibbosa

Also, there are mussels, barnacles,

Sea urchin with creature still inside and a few broken pink spines attached. Didn't realise there was a bonus jewel beetle in this shot- Metallic Jewel Beetle Scutiphora pedicellata

Gunns Screw Shell Gazameda gunnii

Eggs of Cartrut Shell Dicathais orbita

Violet Snail with its bubble float Janthina janthina

Flipped over to show the pale side

This one is older, no more bubble float

The food of Violet Snails: Bluebottle Physalia physalis

Two kinds of barnacles- The one with many plates is Surf Barnacle Catomerus polymerus - the one with heavily striated plates is Rose-coloured Barnacle Tesseropora rosea

Found this guy upside down on the sand- Leaf Beetle Paropsis atomaria

Sea Urchin

A very spiky little fish, bindi of the sea. Turretfish Tetrosomus sp

Westringia eremicolia