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

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

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

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