Excursion to  Cape Surville,  Oct 2010
 

Setting out; the first part of the walk was through light bush and heathland.

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 Looking for tadpoles.

 GF

Tasmanian grasshoppers, Tasmaniacris tasmaniensis.

GF

 Common froglet.

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The track passes through a gully with gigantic manferns, Dicksonia antarctica.

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 Spectacular cliffs to the south of Cape Surville.

The yellowish rock is Devonian granite which is overlaid with horizontal layers of Permian siltstones. A dark intrusion of Jurassic dolerite has forced its way diagonally up through Devonian granite.
[For more explanation, refer to David Leaman's book Walk into History]

GF

A Striated pardalote about to exit its hollow in a Eucalypt.

MD

 Balamara albovittata.

AbT

Cicada nymph.

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Caterpillars bunched on a tea-tree.

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Two views of a flightless fly, about 3mm long.

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Mayfly orchid, Acianthus caudatus.

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Astroloma pinifolium (pine heath) in flower.

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Boronia pilosa (hairy boronia) flowering in woodland alongside the track.

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Pterostylis melagramma (black-striped leafy greenhood) in flower along the coastal part of the walk.

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Photos by Abbey Throssell, Geoff Fenton, James Wood, Michael Driessen