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4 Jun 2021

Durras APR 2021


Fruit of Water Vine Cissus hypoglauca

Sea-mat or Sea Lace - a Bryozoan


Bryozoan animal colony, under the bridge at low tide.


Fruit of Burrawang/Burrawong or Macrozamia


Macrozamia communis


White Root Lobelia purpurascens


Elkhorn Platycerium bifurcatum


Lilac Lily Schelhammera undulata


Fruit of Pittosporum undulatum


Fruit of Cheese Tree


Glochidion ferdinandi



 Rough fruit Pittosporum Pittosporum revolutum


Painted Sedge Skipper Hesperilla picta


The larvae has one food plant only (Gahnia clarkei)




Blueberry Ash Elaeocarpus reticulatus


In the sand dunes, Epicoma Epicoma contristis or E tristis

20 Oct 2020

In the Lake - Durras

 The Mud Whelk  Pyrazus ebeninus



































Seagrass Zostera capricorni looks like shredded paper when dried on the shore










15 Oct 2020

In the Bush - Durras

 Dusky Coral-pea Kennedia rubicunda












Blueberry Ash Elaeocarpus reticulatus












Sweet Pittosporum Pittosporum undulatum












Yellow Pittosporum Pittosporum revolutum












Climbing Guinea flower Hibbertia scandens












Cheese Tree Glochidion sp.












Common Ringlet Hypocysta metirius













13 Oct 2020

In The Sand - Durras

Coast Wattle Acacia longifolia subsp. sophorae


 








Coast Beard Heath Leucopogon parviflorus










Tiger Moth Amata sp.












Dog Cockle Glycymeris sp.












Magpie Moth Nyctemera amicus












Acacia Leaf Beetle Dicranosterna immaculata












Very large Longhorn beetle, maybe Coptocercus sp.












Stab marks from a Sooty Oystercatcher's beak Haematopus fuliginosus












An Antlion larvae -family Neuroptera











Here he is burrowing




And seals





9 Oct 2019

Seven Mile Beach

Angel Wings Pholas australasiae



Surf Crab Ovalipes australiensis



A little Ghost Crab Ocypode Cordimana



Here he is hiding in a footprint. He has also lost a claw.



Lots of this



Mt Coolangatta




3 Mar 2019

Murramurrang

Ironstone Boxwork


Nobbly Wink Noddilittorina pyramidalis


Eight-rayed Limpet Patella (Scutellastra) chapmani


Wasp Island


Round rockpools


Green Anemone Aculatinia vaeratra



Snakeskin Chiton Sypharochiton pelliserpentis


Fossils of little bivalve shells


Towards Point Upright and Grasshopper Island


Juvenile Silver Gull Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae