Mt Pleasant

Some kind of monstrous Puffball, in US these are called "Dead Mans Foot", here they are "Horse Dung Fungus", both aptly descriptive, genus is Pisolithus

Black-headed Bull Ant Myrmecia nigriceps

Ribbed Case Moth case Hyalarcta nigriscens

Golden-tailed Sugar Ant Camponotus suffusus

Paddys River Falls

Saunders Case Moth Metura elongatus

This is just nice

 

Paddys River Falls

The geology - from what I can find out, this is columnar basalt. A lava flow that has cooled very slowly, creating columns as it cools and contracts

Many of the columns are hexagonal, giving the appearance of a giant crystal.

The ceiling

Spare basalt columns are very handy for marking out the carpark area

With some Bracken Pteridium esculentum

Rosemary Grevillea Grevillea rosmarinifolia

Bursaria spinosa

In the distance, Maragle Mountain (its on the List)

Delanys Hut - Connors Hill

Delanys Hut

With Alpine Hill in the background

The hut burnt in the 2003 fires, it has been beautifully rebuilt

An earlier fireplace

Little bench by the Black Sallee at Connors Hill

Black Sallee flowers Eucalyptus stellulata, with Alpine Hill in the background

Woolly Grevillea Grevillea lanigera

Some kind of Bolete

A Rhubarb Bolete Boletellus obscurecoccineus

Mother Shield Fern Polystichum proliferum