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

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.

 

Spinnaker

Rice Flower Pimelea treyvaudii

Bitter Pea Daviesia mimosoides

A tiny 2cm cicada-Southern Mountain Squeaker Astrapsalta furcilla

Prickly Starwort Stellaria pungens

Indigofera Indigofera australis

Guinea Flower Hibbertia obtusifilia

Last years Eucalyptus Chafer / Green Christmas Beetle Xylonicus eucalypti

Cassinia longifolia

The overhang

Summit rocks

Broad-leaf Peppermint Eucalyptus Dives

Picnic Point

Narrow-leaf Geebung Persoonia linearis

Pink Hyacinth Orchid Dipodium roseum (petals curved back)

Blotched Hyacinth Orchid Dipodium variegatum

Scentless Rosewood Synoum glandulosum

Pastel Flower Pseuderanthemum variabile

White Root Lobelia purpurascens

Splendid Ochre Trapezites symmomus

Westringia fruticosa right by the shore

Ruby Saltbush Enchylaena tomentosa

Eggs of the Cartrut Shell Dicathais orbita

Razor Grinder Henicopsaltria eydouxii

The sea and the rocks