AAWT - Day 3 - Booroomba Rocks to Honeysuckle Creek

Booroomba Rocks

Leionema Leionema lamprophyllum subs. obovatum

Lemon Bottlebrush Callistemon pallidus

Rayed Blue Candalides heathi

Alpine Star Bush- maybe -Asterolasia trymalioides

Grevillea Grevillea oxyantha subsp. oxyantha

More Booroomba Rocks

Tennent and Deadmans from Booroomba

Along the track to Honeysuckle Creek - The orange is Cherry Ballart Exocarpos cupressifomis and the yellow is Silver Wattle Acacia dealbata

Beard-heath Leucopogon sp.

Blanket Bush Bedfordia arborescens

Dagger Wattle Acacia siculiformis

Woolly Grevillea Grevillea lanigera

Coral Heath Epacris microphylla

Wedge-leaf Wattle Acacia pravissima

Honeysuckle Creek

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

Booderee

Beach at Green Patch

Oysters

Rosette Barnacle Tetraclitella purpurascens

Comb Sand Star Astropecten vappa 

Red Bait Crab Plagusia chabrus

Sand Anemone Oulactis mucosa

Bristol Point

Dusky Coral Pea Kennedia rubicunda

Snakeskin Chiton Sypharochiton pelliserpentis

At Murrays Beach, looking across to Bowen Island. This place was once earmarked to become a nuclear power plant !? It never happened. May we never entertain it again.

Branches of Banksia growing right onto the sandy shore Banksia integrifolia 

Fan Shell

Blue Australwink (Periwinkles) Austrolittorina unifasciata

AAWT - Day 1 - Tharwa to Bushfold Flats

On Mt Tennent

Hairy Geebung with tiny new fruit Persoonia rigida

Fringed Heath Myrtle Micromyrtus ciliata

Drooping she oak Allocasuarina verticillata

Urn Heaths Melichrus urceolatus just starting to flower

Beautiful scalloped love-heart young leaves of Apple Box Eucalyptus bridgesiana

Down on the Flats

Deadmans Hill on the far left

Reads Hut

Common Prettymouth Calostoma fuscum

One tiny sprig of Bursaria flowers in the snow Bursaria spinosa

Kangaroos in the snow Macropus giganteus

Charlotte Pass

Snow Beard-heath Leucopogon montanus

Alpine Pepper Tasmannia xerophila

A female Shield-back katydid, pulled from a stream. There were little hoppers everywhere, even on the snow.

Mt Stillwell

The Main Range