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

Cotter

First sighting - A 59 year old Beer

Grey Grass Tree Xanthorrhoea glauca subsp. angustifolia

Bushy Needlewood Hakea decurrens

Pomaderris various

 

Grey Guinea Flower Hibbertia obtusifolia

Leafy Daisy Brachyscome rigidula

Fuzzweed seeds Vittadinia sp.

Bluebell doing 4 petals instead of 5..Wahlenbergia sp.

Earthstar fungus Geastrum sp.

Shaggy Ink Caps Coprinus comatus under the Casuarinas

 

Various Views...

 

 

Pedens Hut

Fields of Bulbine and Vanilla Lilies on the Gulf Plain

Pale Vanilla Lily Arthropodium milleflorum

Bulbine bulbosa

Small-fruit Hakea Hakea microcarpa

Pale Golden Moths Diuris Ochroma

Mauve or Highland Leek Orchid Prasophyllum alpestre

Murrumbidgee and the Gulf Plain

Clustered Everlasting Chrysocephalum semipapposum

Mountain Katydids Acripeza reticulata. The male is the one in the centre, the females are rounder.

Some kind of Grass Caterpillar or Woolly Bear- maybe Pterolocera sp. feeding on a blade of grass

Townsends Hut- the red wash along the top of the grassed area is due to many Triggerplants

Triggerplant Stylidium graminifolium