AAWT - Day 2 - Bushfold Flats to Booroomba Rocks

Dry open grassland at Bushfold Flats

Looking to our destination between Deadmans Hill (left) and Booroomba Rocks (centre)

Blackwood Acacia melanoxylon at Reads Hut

One of only two Cymbonotus flowers today

A very dead pig

The trap nearby

Wombat skull

Silver wattle Acacia dealbata. Not flowering as profusely as this time last year.

Ruins of Bushfold Flats hut

Very old Apple Box from the farm days Eucalyptus bridgesiana

Tiny, tiny flowers of Dwarf Cherry Exocarpos strictus

Caterpillar of Pasture Day Moth Apino callisto. The caterpillar burrows into the ground to pupate. Here is an adult moth that was prepared earlier.

One of only two Hovea heterophylla plants in flower seen today. It's been a dry year.

The beautiful wet mountain forest near Booroomba Rocks

Marshall's Break

Prickly Teatree Leptospermum continentale

Some younger and some older fruit

Brittle Gum Eucalyptus mannifera

Brittle Gums with bright green Cherry Ballarts Exocarpos cupressiformis

Cherry Ballart bark with a White-spotted Jumping Spider and it's prey Sandalodes scopifer

Prickly Broom-heath Monotoca scoparia starting to flower

Common Prettymouth Calostoma fuscum

Views

Reads Hut

Blackwood Acacia melanoxylon flower buds

Sour Bush Omphacomeria acerba just beginning to flower. The flowers are very tiny, not quite able to see them here. Does look superficially like Cherry Ballart (Exocarpos cupressiformis), which is in the same family.

Large Sour Bush at the front.

Silver Wattle Acacia dealbata flowering now

Common Hovea Hovea heterophyla

Australian Indigo Indigofera australis with flower buds

Bushfold Hut, rebuilt where Reads hut stood before the 2003 bushfires.

View from hut across Bushfold Flats

View west from Bushfold Flats to Deadman's Hill (left) and Booroomba Rocks (right of centre).

Namadgi rainbow