AAWT - Day 9-10 -Cotter Dam Track to Murrays Gap

Silver Wattle Acacia dealbata



Split Rock



Coronet Peak from Cotter Valley



Cotter Hut



A spiral tree



Some big gums..





Murrays Gap at last



Bimberi overlooking Murrays Gap


...and again in the morning









Descending the snow-covered track



Lyrebird tracks in the snow Menura novaehollandiae



 



First day of spring by the Cotter River



 



Purple Appleberry Billardiera longiflora





Dagger Wattle for Wattle Day Acacia siculiformis



Returning home along the Orroral Valley

Narooma

Sweet Pittosporum Pittosporum undulatam is everywhere

Coast Banksia Banksia integrifolia

Flowers of Grey Mangrove Avicennia marina

Burrawang- a cycad. Macrozamia communis

Pigface Caprobrotus glaucescens

Yellow Pittosporum Pittosporum revolutum at Mogo. The outer skin of the fruit looks like citrus.

Obligatory photo of Australia Rock- it's the rock at the end of the headland with a hole in it shaped like Australia.

Gulaga - Mother Mountain (Mt Dromedary) - overlooking Wagonga Inlet and Narooma.

Baranguba (Montague Island) off the coast on the left. Baranguba, the eldest of Gulaga's two sons, went to live in the sea.

Warks Road

Bursaria spinosa.  The little brown capsules which are so distinctive later in the year are new and green now.

Star Cudweed Euchiton spp

Cauliflower Bush Cassinia spp

There were many new Red-leaf Wattles Acacia rubida, showing the immature compound leaves and the mature large leaf, red stems and leaf edges.

Dodder or Devils Twine Cassytha pubescens

Fishbone Fern Blechum nudum 

Mt Blundell (distant), and Uriarra Hill

Condor Hut, victim of the 2003 fires.

Casuarina Sands

Correa reflexa in flower along the track to Bulgar Creek.  Some plants with red and yellow flowers, some light green.

Occurrence of fasciation in a stem of  Bursaria spinosa.  this is the first example I've seen in Bursaria, having previously seen fasciation only in soft weeds like Plantain Plantago lanceolata.

Plenty of dead River Oaks Casuarina cunninghamiana from the 2003 fires, still a striking sight along the river.

View south along Murrumbidgee River, cleared grazing land on left and Bullen Range on the right.