Coombabah Lakelands

Native Violet Viola hederacea

Blue Murdannia Murdannia graminea

Coast Banksia Banksia integrifolia

Moreton Bay Ash Corymbia tessellaris lower bark

Moreton Bay Ash trunk

Mt Franklin

Woolly Grevillea Grevillea lanigera

Common Oxylobium or Common Shaggy-pea Oxylobium ellipticum

Hoary Sunray Leucochrysum albicans

Looking south along the regenerating Slalom Ski Run on Mt Franklin.  Mt Ginini is the peak centre-right.

Needle ice on the track

Blackwood

Curly seed pods of Blackwood Acacia melanoxylon showing the seeds hanging on their long colied red stalks. My favourite wattle.

Budawangs

Hairpin Banksia Banksia spinulosa

Christmas Bells Blandfordia nobilis

Broad leaf Drumsticks Isopogon anemonifolius

Common Heath Epacris impressa. A red variety.

View of Pigeon House Mountain from Yurnga Lookout in perfect viewing weather.

Guinea Flower

Hibbertia obtusifolia.  One of a few Hibbertia known as Guinea Flowers.

The Murrumbidgee River in the Bullen Range Nature Reserve. A favourite place.

Gang-gang Cockatoos

Male Gang-gang Cockatoo Callocephalon fimbriatum nibbling on gumnuts in the garden...

And the female..

And a pair together near the mailbox.

A female showing her crest.

Bungonia Gorge

Correa Correa reflexa.  The flower is pointing down and clasped between the two leaf like bracts indicating Correa reflexa var. reflexa. 

Nephila plumipes, one of the Golden Orb Weaver spiders. The male appears to be above her on the other side of the web.  Plenty of this species at Bungonia.

Bungonia Gorge and the "Boulder Stack"

Dawn camp at Shoalhaven River

Shoalhaven River