Koonya Easter camp, 2009 - Mount Clark
 

 

Green mantid, Orthodera ministralis.

AmT

 

Summer Greenhood orchid,
Pterostylis decurva.

GF

 

Beware the monster!

The track on the lower slope of Mt Clark.

AmT

 

GF 

Sun fly, Tapeigaster sp, whose larvae feed on mushrooms.

AmT

 

Our president sets the scale for moss covered bracket fungi growing on the buttresses of a eucalypt tree.

There is a cloud-forest on the summit ridge of Mt Cark.

GF

 

Filmy fern (Hymenophyllaceae).

GF

 

Uchid.

GF

 

Bothriembryon tasmanicus, an East and South Coast species of snail, which lives in any habitat but always within about 5km of the sea.

About 3cm across.

AmT

 

An undescribed siphonotid millipede, like 'AcuMes'.
 This pink form may not be the same species, as 'AcuMes' is usually yellow (see Hills Rd excursion).

Also see Multipedes website.

AmT

 

At Clark Cliff, looking over a patch of Musk forest, surrounded by eucalypts.

GF

 

 

 

 

 

Clubmoss Huperzia varia, and Asplenium flabellifolium in a crevice on Clark Cliff.

AmT

 

A Tasmanian tree skink
Niveoscincus pretiosus
at Clark Cliff.

MD

      AmT
The younger field-nats on top at Clark Cliff.

 

Photos by Amanda Thomson, Geoff Fenton, Michael Driessen