Easter Camp in Cradle Mt park,  April 2010
1. Blandforia & Waldheim.
 

 

We were welcomed to Blandfordia Hut by the local currawongs. This individual looking in the window has a particularly scarred beak.

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This Brush-tail possum was no less curious when we opened the window slightly.

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Setting out from Blandfordia Hut for the day.

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Lactarius eucalypti near Blandfordia.

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Fungus near Blandfordia, possibly Bovista sp.

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Morning dew on spider-web at Blandfordia.

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Button-grass in the valley near Waldheim, with the plateau escarpment up behind.

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Wombat mother & child on the snow-grass near Waldheim.

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Stonefly close up!

 

 

One of the Julliette Tarns
with Pencil pines.

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Mayfly, and weevil, at Juliette Tarns.

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 Finger fungi in Waldheim forest.
Clavaria miniata (also known as Clavulinopsis sulcata).

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Also in Walheim forest, Hygrocybe reesiae.

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Stonefly (right) and small moss beetle (below) found in forest near Waldheim.

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Pedilophorus gemmatus (Byrrhidae),
which lives at high altitude.

 

Photos by Amanda Thomson, Abbey Throssell, Geoff Fenton