A week away with an old friend

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bearded orchid, donkey orchid, Ferntree Gully, flowers, Frank's Breakaway, Ganguddy, Hill End, Lue, Mudgee, Rylstone, Sofala, wildflowers

Every year my friend of more than sixty years and I try to spend a week together. This year we rented a stone house on the edge of the Wollemi national park, overlooked by sandstone cliffs.

 

From this base we walked around Ganguddy where a dam built by nearby cement works in the 1920s has metamorphosed into a beautiful lake.

 

We photographed in Rylstone and Mudgee; and in Sofala and Hill End, two nineteenth century gold mining towns.

Rylstone

Mudgee

Sofala

 

Hill End

 

We captured the remnants of railway days in Lue.

 

We walked on the edge of sandstone gorges and past sandstone pagodas at Ferntree Gully.

 

We lunched at the Pipeclay Pumphouse at Robert Stein's Mudgee winery to celebrate our 70th birthdays, both now well in the past.

 

And of course we photographed flowers, and even found a few orchids.

 

 

Thank you, Rosemary, for a lovely few days exploring the central tablelands of NSW.

 

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More spring flowers

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bangalay flower and fruit, Bingie Dreaming Track, boronia, donkey orchid, goodenia, lilac lily, purple flag

Our coast walk last weekend yielded a new array of bush flowers, as we rambled along a a stretch of the Bingie Dreaming Track from Congo to Meringo. Some of them were in heath; some along a sandy bush track; some on an exposed headland; some on the beach.

 

Beach dandelion

?: ?: ?: donkey orchid

Lomandra: Goodenia: ?: ?

Blossom and nuts of the bangalay (?)

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?: purple flag: fringe lily: lilac lily

Boronia (?)

 

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