Tuggeranong Railway

Five Corners Styphelia triflora

Mealy Bundy Eucalyptus nortonii

All kinds of fun railway things

Termite mounds on the tracks

Grey Guinea-flower Hibbertia obtusifolia

Views

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

Long Flat - Burnt Hill

After some rain, many little creatures were out in the damp but sunny conditions.  Canary Worm or Canary Flatworm Fletchamia sugdeni.

Female Mountain Grasshopper or Katydid Acripeza reticulata

Some kind of female orange mealy bug, possibly Monophlebulus sp.

Whip Snake or White-lipped Snake Drysdalia coronoides. Very small only about 20cm. 

One of only two Button Everlasting flowers seen on the walk Corinidium scorpioides

Black Sallee flowers are so tiny Eucalyptus stellulata

Just to show I was there...Sam Aboud's Dunny

Walking along the Border on Johnston's Line, facing west. Mt Gudgenby is just right of centre in the distance.

A Border Blaze- R39

Finally, at dusk, resting damselflies decorate the creekside. Unidentified.