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A week away with an old friend

26 Monday Oct 2015

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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 Eurobodalla spring

22 Tuesday Sep 2015

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lichen, orchids, seed pods, wildflowers

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Glossodia major: waxlip orchid

Glossodia major: waxlip orchid

 
Monotoca elliptica: tree broom-heath

Monotoca elliptica: tree broom-heath

Eucalypt leaves

Eucalypt leaves

Fungus and grass

Fungus and grass

Pultenaea daphnoides: large-leafed bush pea

Pultenaea daphnoides: large-leafed bush pea

Correa alba: white correa
Correa alba: white correa
Sandflower
Sandflower
Commersonia fraseri: brush kurrajong
Commersonia fraseri: brush kurrajong
? Escapee geranium?
? Escapee geranium?
Hibbertia scandens: snake vine; climbing guinea vine
Hibbertia scandens: snake vine; climbing guinea vine
No ID
No ID
Everlasting paper daisy
Everlasting paper daisy
Wattle pods
Wattle pods
lichen
lichen
Hakea salicifolia (?)
Hakea salicifolia (?)
Glossodia major: waxlip orchid
Glossodia major: waxlip orchid
Daviesia ulicifolia: gorse bitter pea
Daviesia ulicifolia: gorse bitter pea
Melaleuca ericifolia (?): swamp paperbark
Melaleuca ericifolia (?): swamp paperbark
Melaleuca ericifolia (?): swamp paperbark
Melaleuca ericifolia (?): swamp paperbark
Casuarina littoralis : black she-oak
Casuarina littoralis : black she-oak
Casuarina littoralis (?) : black she-oak
Casuarina littoralis (?) : black she-oak
Casuarina littoralis (?) : black she-oak
Casuarina littoralis (?) : black she-oak
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The river road 4

28 Tuesday Oct 2014

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eucalypts, ferns, Tuross River, wildflowers

The place where I weekend is in the bush, 20km from my home by the sea. My current weekend walking project is to walk in stretches along the river road between Eurobodalla and Nerrigundah. I take the car to the farthest point I’ve walked to, hop out, and continue on. This is something of a pilgrimage along a road from my past, and it’s giving me great pleasure.

This week, I left the car at the top of Tallyho Hill and set off along a dirt road, with a drop off the edge into a steep gully. I heard the song of a lyrebird and the brief laugh of a kookaburra (unless of course that was the lyrebird too.) The bush was noisy with chirrupings, whistlings, and the vibrating whirr of a pigeon takeoff. The eucalypts sported long ribbons of bark and there were signs of rainforest: crinkle-edged leaves, vines and tall tree ferns. Everywhere in the bush, tall wattles with their pale yellow balls and their sweet smell. The sky a bleached grey with that disturbing glare and lack of substance. I walked down the hill around the twists in the road. On one side a gully: on the other side a steep bank, a rocky cutting rich with ferns and flowers – maidenhair, bracken and pinky rasp fern; faded schelhammeras, tiny white star flowers, purple and white violets, purple dianella with yellow-orange stamens, the gleaming white flowers of branching grass flag. At the bottom of the hill, a bridge and an underpass for cattle, the paddocks an astonishing green for this time of year. An assemblage of grass and flowers decorated the buffer at the bridge. Sandy curves of the river appeared and then retreated again: a vivid patch of purple fan flowers, delicate sprays of dianella in bud, yellow goodenia, and the richer yellow of hibbertia, with its splendour of buds. Occasionally the heat was relieved by a delicious breeze, more noticeable because the hill was generating an unaccustomed gentle sweat.

Only one vehicle passed me in an hour and a half on a Monday morning. I have now walked 8km of the river road.

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tree fern
tree fern
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FLOWERS

Dianella
Dianella
Dianella
Dianella
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Native violets
Native violets
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Fairy fan flower
Fairy fan flower
Branching grass flag
Branching grass flag
Scelhammera
Scelhammera
Hibbertia
Hibbertia
Goodenia
Goodenia

Nature’s garden at bridge buffer

Along the Tuross River

Quartz in the cutting: once gold-mining country

On the edge of the road

RIBBONS OF BARK

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Back up the hill beside the gully

I’m joining Jo’s Monday walk, with this ramble along the river road, the fourth in a series.
http://restlessjo.wordpress.com/jos-monday-walk/

 

 

 

 

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