AAWT - Day 17 - Old Telegraph Poles to Tantangara Creek

This was Christmas Day 2021, a day hike on the AAWT...

Heading down to the Murrumbidgee

Wasn't as hard to cross as I thought it might be

Across the river and heading north

Beautiful walking

The Old Telegraph Poles

This marker is where I made it to last time when I was walking from the North in cold and fog. This time, walking in from the south in sun and wildflowers.

The wildflowers seemed larger than usual - Yam Daisy Microseris lanceolata  

Cicada

Dragonfly

Subalpine Leek orchid Prasophyllum sphacelatum

Divergent lateral sepals - either Prasophyllum 

viriosum (Stocky Leek Orchid)  or P. candida (Kiandra Leek Orchid)

Podolepis daisy

Hamilton's Orb Weaver Araneus hamiltoni

The Jester Thallarcha jocularis

Tantangara Creek

AAWT - Day 11-12 -Murrays Gap to Pockets Hut

At Murrays Gap- Triggerplants Styliduim sp.  As they are growing in bog at high altitude, they could be Alpine Triggerplant Stylidium montana, but I did not investigate the leaves.

Fairy Aprons Utrichularia dichotoma

Swamp Eyebright Euphrasia caudata

Sweet Onion Orchid  Microtis oblonga.  The labellum is very long, against the ovary, and flowers well spaced.

Heading down from the gap, Blanket Bush Bedfordia arborescens is emerging from burnt areas

Swathes of white Stellaria under black trunks looks like snow

Damp gullies of  red snow grass Poa sp

Flax and close up of the red Poa

Scrofa Hawkmoth Hippotion scrofa

Looking back to Bimberi

Yam Daisy

Oldfields Hut

My Accom

A lone cherry at Oldfields (plenty of cherry slugs though)

Christmas dinner

Copper Wire Daisy Podolepis sp.

Sticky Everlasting Ozothamnus thyrsoideus

pea

Heading along the edge of the plain

Pockets Hut and views from the plains

 

Views over Tantangara Dam in the evening

Cicadas!

Redeye Cicadas Psaltoda moerens- in profusion on 8th Dec2020.

On Cork Oaks and various other trees at the Lindsay Pryor Arboretum.

This one has recently emerged- still drying its wings

Holes where the pupae emerged from the ground.

A Common Onion Orchid Microtis unifolia- labellum is crinkly.

Growing from mulch placed around new trees.