Federation of Tasmanian Field Naturalists weekend,  14~16 Mar 2008
Excursion to a rocky outcrop near Lake Augusta
 

 Field nats picking their way through the alpine heath towards a typically outcropping rocky ridge. It is about 10m high and 300m long; vertical on this side, but smoothed-off on the far side, perhaps due to glacial action in the last ice age.

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Southern brown tree frog, Litoria ewingii.

Usually they are brown, but this one was definitely green! 

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Gaultheria depressa.

The fruit is a capsule surrounded by an enlarged fleshy calyx, about 8mm diameter.

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This Mountain dragon, Rankinia diemensis, is truly cryptic, blending in so well with the rocky background.

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Note the recurved hooks on the seeds of this sedge.

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Photos by Geoff Fenton, Abbey Throssell