Snug Tiers excursion,  4 Oct 2008
  Sung Tiers is a plateau area of 600 to 800m altitude and is a State reserve. It has no ordinary roads or inhabitants, yet is only 25km south of Hobart, in Tasmania.
 

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Snug Tiers is criss-crossed by old logging tracks.
 

Guitar plant Lomatia tinctoria with its distinctive seed pods and pinnately divided leaves.
The close-up shows the open side of the seed pod.

GF 

Eucalyptus cordata with a close-up of its square-section stem. This is characteristic of the 'western' form; the 'eastern' form has round stems.

GF

A beautiful reflection in muddy water; tall eucalypts.

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Ocellated (spotted) skink,
Niveoscincus ocellatus.

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Cystopelta bicolor, a widespread southern & western native slug species, but apparently uncommon at Snug Tiers.

GF

Velvetworm - Ooperipatellus sp.

Most Tasmanian velvetworms belong to this genus, which contains many undescribed species.

GF

Tetragnathidae spider.

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Bird's-nest fungi,
Nidula emodensis. 

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Richea dracophylla are always eye-catching.

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A Nicodamus spider in the centre of a tuft of Pineapple grass, Astelia alpina.

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BH
Field nats spreading out on a buttongrass moorland.
There are several of these enclosed frost-hollows at about 600m altitude in the Snug Tiers.

Photos by Beth Heap, Geoff Fenton, Amanda Thomson