AAWT - Day14-15 - Bill Jones Hut to Ghost Gully Camp

Trip taken April 2021- clear days, cold nights.

 

Views over Long Plain

   

Hainsworth Hut

Quartz crystals on the track

Very few flowers left

Whoever this guy is, he has a red mite behind his head.

Active European Wasp nest, reported to NPWS.
Vespula germanica

More views from Mosquito Creek Trail

Morning view of frost and fog on Cooleman Plain

 View of Bimberi from frosty tent

Bill Jones Hut

The toilet, very funny

Sparshall's Moth, a female

Trichiocercus sparshalli

Brumby trap. Plenty of brumbies in this area.

View from Old Currango

Old Currango Homestead

Homestead interior, very comfortable

Views from Port Philip Trail, towards new walking country

Nicole Gorge

Caves at Blue Waterholes

Native Raspberry Rubus parvifolius

Siver Xenica Oreixenica lathoniella

Cooleman Right Cave (pointing camera into darkness with flash on)

Is that a geocache in the wall on the right?

Daisy Bush Olearia rosmarinifolia

Views around the Gorge

Fallen limestone blocks

Brachiopod fossils

Two interesting plants among the fossils

Goldmoss stonecrop Sedum acre is an invasive weed

Tree Violet or Gruggly Bush Melicytus angustifolius is native

Signage

The gorge from above Murrays Cave

Cooleman Plain

Chamomile Sunray at the end of flowering season Rhodanthe anthemoides

Apple tree on the right. Several apple trees with plenty of fruit, not quite ripe.

Kerosene Bush Ozothamnus cupressoides

Shed lizard skin, with perfect little toes

Cooleman Mountain

 Driving in, full moon

With horses

Horse warning

Berry of Dianella sp.

Candlebark Eucalyptus rubida. Picture doesn't capture the glowing coppery apricot colour

Butterfly is Shouldered Brown Heteronympha penelope, these were plentiful

Coolamine Homestead and buildings

Newspapers lining the inside walls are from 1939

The verandahs

The toilet with two seats

Hamiltons Orb Weaver (I think) Araneus hamiltoni