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

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

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