7 Jan 2018

Pedens Hut IV

Happy New Year from Circuits Hut





Mountain Milkwort Comesperma retusum


Mountain Teatree Leptospermum grandifolium


Bulbine lilies smell beautiful, a bit like scottish bluebells


Burgan Kunzea ericoides


Mt Jadar

6 Jan 2018

Pedens Hut III

Pedens Hut in morning mist


St Andrews Cross Spider of this species was plentiful- they had a greenish tinge. Argiope sp


View from Mt Jadar


Jadar Trig


Crane Fly Leptotarsus clavatus


Australian Forget-me-not Cynoglossum australe


Some kind of cute Weevils on Grevillea


Woolly Grevillea Grevillea lanigera


Water Skink Eulamprus sp


Leaf Skeletonizers at work


Alpine Bottlebrush Callistemon pityoides. Only saw one of these.



Large leaf Daisy Bush in full flower Olearia megalophylla. Only saw one of these also.



Brumby racing past. Mt Jadar on far right.


Snow Gums in flower Eucalyptus pauciflora

3 Jan 2018

Pedens Hut II

Showy Podolepis Podolepis jaceoides


Alpine Shaggy-pea Podolobium alpestre



Blush Daisy Bush Olearia myrsinoides


Spiny-headed Mat-rush Lomandra longifolia


Leek Orchid Prasophyllum sp


Silver Wattle Acacia dealbata


The Murrumbidgee


Love Nest in the Sallees


The back- patched with flattened oil cans


Shell oilcan cladding detail


The interior


Male Red-necked Wallaby Macropus rufogriseus


Pedens Hut

2 Jan 2018

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