Nicole Gorge

Caves at Blue Waterholes

Native Raspberry Rubus parvifolius

Siver Xenica Oreixenica lathoniella

Cooleman Right Cave (pointing camera into darkness with flash on)

Is that a geocache in the wall on the right?

Daisy Bush Olearia rosmarinifolia

Views around the Gorge

Fallen limestone blocks

Brachiopod fossils

Two interesting plants among the fossils

Goldmoss stonecrop Sedum acre is an invasive weed

Tree Violet or Gruggly Bush Melicytus angustifolius is native

Signage

The gorge from above Murrays Cave

Cooleman Plain

Chamomile Sunray at the end of flowering season Rhodanthe anthemoides

Apple tree on the right. Several apple trees with plenty of fruit, not quite ripe.

Kerosene Bush Ozothamnus cupressoides

Shed lizard skin, with perfect little toes

Cooleman Mountain

 Driving in, full moon

With horses

Horse warning

Berry of Dianella sp.

Candlebark Eucalyptus rubida. Picture doesn't capture the glowing coppery apricot colour

Butterfly is Shouldered Brown Heteronympha penelope, these were plentiful

Coolamine Homestead and buildings

Newspapers lining the inside walls are from 1939

The verandahs

The toilet with two seats

Hamiltons Orb Weaver (I think) Araneus hamiltoni

AAWT - Day 13 - Pockets Hut to Bill Jones Hut

 New Years Day at Pockets Hut 

Chamomile Sunray Rhodanthe anthemoides

Gold coloured Leaf Beetles mating Cadmus litigiosus

Blue Eyes Lacewing Nymphes mermeleonoides

Hatted Caterpillars and younger instars of Gum Leaf Skeletonisers Uraba lugens

The hats are retained skins from previous molts. On Black Sallee E. stellulata

Alpine Daisy Bush Olearia algida

Dwarf Sour Bush Choretrum pauciflorum

Snow Gum forest between Seventeen Flat and Pockets Hut

Swarm of Honeybees on the move, protecting their queen Apis mellifera

On E. Stellulata

Seventeen Flat

Cooleman Plain

Brachiopod and other fossils in the plains limestone

Fields of blue Flax Linum marginale

Dragonfly

Caterpillar- tons of this species, mostly on weeds

Bill Jones Hut

Limestone and dry creek beds around Blue Waterholes