Blunt-tipped greenhood day in Seven Mile Beach NP : August 18 2024

A rainy day is the perfect time to catch up with the option expiries from Friday. Might have been better spent doing some of the Internet Marketing stuff. Kind of lazy as the current launch runs for more than a week and the next one starts on 26th.

Rain did clear and gave a window to get on the bike. Chose to do a loop of the close in walk - always a chance of a few greenhoods. Pea flower - might be a garden escapee as the start of the walk is right next to the houses

Greenhoods there were - blunt-tipped greenhoods on the side of the horse track past the waterworks. A little further along than I have seen

View through a palm frond of 3 greenhoods. Reminds be of photo from Batemans Bay a few years back

Pterostylis curta - front on shows the distinctive twist of the labellum

A photo from below of the helmet unfolding

Huge tree come down over the trail - just fallen down roots and all - probably a 40 metre tree

Next of the pea flowers - twining glycine

The nodding greenhoods on track edge are flowering. The flowers are small

Top down shows flower and rosette

One better shape flower - pterostylis nutans

Part of the walk plan was to check the first pterostylis curta colony I saw in this trail. The trail has been strimmed aggressively several times - thus colony is enjoying the lack of competition - at least 5 flowers in frame

Twins

A little side on shows the twist

Always an Australian native violet

Onto the loop section I walked in and out last week - one more pterostylis curta in the same spot as last week

Also a purple greenhood - probably pterostlyis oblonga with the slightly elongated helmet

Kept walking the loop - another colony of pterostylis curta

The value of walking tracks often - budding caladenia - photo shows leaf and spike (highlighted)

Bud forming

Kept finding pterostylis curta colonies. Have not walked this loop often as it is quite grassy and the grass crowds out the orchids. Not these greenhoods.

Tiny white flowers - just big enough for an OK photo

Ever wondered what the back of the labellum looks like and not keen to dissect? Well a bug did the work

Must have found 7 or 8 colonies of pterostylis curta - this one on the main access track the horses use to get to the beech

Another 4 or 5 in frame

Next for the ID challenge. Is the helmet elongated enough to be pterostylis oblonga or is it pterostylis erecta? Going to say it is the same - oblonga

Pterostylis curta from the track that heads down to the beach

Good ride and walk - did not rain.

While I was out my wife cooked dinner. Always a bonus.

Stayed up late to watch the 2nd last mountain of the Tour de Femmes race. Too tired to watch them ride Alpe d'Huez - a road I have ridden

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Cycling, Daily Activity, House Chores, Photowalking