Change of plans for the day - no cleaners means I can get out earlier - took the train to walk a track down to the water to look for rock orchids
New signage in Ku-ring Gai Chase NP
Bearded orchid seeded
Starburst flower - my name - is it a white flower day?
Did find a budding hyacinth orchid - close up photo did not work
Hibbertia starts the yellow campaign
Multi-flower version
Yellow pea flower
Drumsticks flower at the end of season
Lambertia formosa
Orchid of the day starts with bonnet orchid
A bit side on shows the bonnet well - cryptostylis erecta
An interesting bud. It is an orchid budding - next step of ID is to find the leaf. This is where it gets fun - quite often the spike is some way away from the leaf. Could not find it - burgundy colour to the spike is a clue
Close by was better evidence - cryptostylis erecta
The edge of the drop off to Cowan Creek below
Love the way the big trees work around living on a rock ledge
Trigger flower - pink
Purple this is - purple fan flower
Take two with a bit more light
Weather eroded an eye in this rock
Track photo of grey spider grevillea - you know me by now
On the purple theme - picked up the upside down flower to get a photo from below
More purple - dampiera purpurea
A big slice of leptospermum squarrosum just before the drip to the creek
They like this slice across the big rocks. Could not see any Aboriginal carvings
The challenging part of the walk is long sections through she-oak bush. The soil is too acidic for orchids - a tunnel of acid
The mission today - rock orchids - no flowers yet
Tom cats orchid - cestichis reflexa - no flowers yet. Maybe I can check from below
Came across this echidna on the way down. Happy to pose. Was still there when I came back
The cestichis reflexa from below - sone evidence of flower spikes but no flowers - on the left
View down to Cowan Creek. Not been able to walk the track along the water for years now
Did hear the lyre bird - did not see it. Got an artists version
Pink spider grevillea - more than one spider in shot
Budding bonnet orchid
Pale flax lily - tough photo in bright light
This was the surprise find - two orchids growing out of a crack in the rocks
Close up - rose hyacinth orchid - dipodium roseum - first find Sydney side. Was I surprised?
No! Have previously seen plants about where this one is. Seeds have gone with the water flow. What is amazing is how they landed in that rock gap - it is below in the flow line
Took the side track down to Cowan Creek views
Some grand trees with the same views
Was looking up for snake orchids - found this poser up high
Track view of scribbly gum
Budding hyacinth orchid
Context photo - the track below is still closed - 3 years later
Next context photo. The Great North Walk makes its way up to this station from the valley the other side I was walking
The old style station - station in the centre of the two lines
Newcastle train whizzing by - does not stop here
Nice walk - heaps of steps. Did cook dinner - duck sous vide
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