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

Greens and the Playground

Early Nancy Wurmbea dioica

Close up of the female flowers

Billy Button Craspedia sp.

Cymbonotus sp.

Hazel Pomaderris Pomaderris aspera in bud

A native Purple Violet Viola betonicifolia

A tiny Bush Pea Bossiaea buxifolia

Silver Wattle flowers coming to thier end Acacia dealbata

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

The Pyramid

Bear's Ears Cymbonotus spp

Common Hovea Hovea heterophyla

Grass Tree Xanthorrhoea australis

A Beard Heath Leucopogon spp. The tiny flowers are fuzzy.

Boulders on the Pyramid

The Pyramid from Devil's Gap Fire Trail