Comerong Island greenhoods : August 19 2024

Was a slow day. By the time I was ready ti go out riding I did not feel like riding 17 km round trip to explore the far section of Seven Mile Beach. Took the short bike ride option with the long walk

Ride down to the river and walk to Comerong Island - glad I took the mountain photo on the way out. Sun was low when I got back

Leptsospermum squarrosum flowering where I parked my bike - new for the season

One way of dealing with the flood timbers - build huts. The O&M guy in me is working out if one could build this solo

The logs form quite an obstacle. Hard to cross - stood on one and it rolled. Took a while to get free

So much for the lazy way out - over 5,000 steps to get to where there is any flora of interest

The obligatory native violet

Mushroom season is over but there are still some fungal forms showing

Did know I would find greenhoods - blunt-tipped greenhood - new flower in a spot seen last walk

The twisted labellum is key to ID. Did check every one

Budding form. Did find a few more colonies - game of light for photos

Light behind and shaded light

Maybe a puffer type mushroom - a few in frame

Took the fork to the left down to the beach - not walked that before. There are orchids up the right. Maybe get lucky this side

Found this budding orchid quite close to the beach - first orchid down this track

More fungal form on a fallen tree

Made it to the beach - plenty of timber here too. Looking south to Crookhaven Heads

Looking north to Gerroa

Heading back the orchids were on the East side of the track - greenhood rosettes

Now for the ID challenge - greenhoods vs maroonhoods - toss up between pterostylis erecta and pterostylis oblonga. Front on might even be pedunculata

Side on - shorter helmet - maybe pterostylis oblonga

Front on is similar to the other

Side on - the helmet is longer. This is where confusion reigns - pterostylis erecta

Front on - very long sepals

Blunt-tipped greenhood just after rejoining the main track - next time - look left to start

Context photo shows the fork in the track

Back to this game - ID - probably erecta

A little angle to catch the labellum

Fungus time on a fallen tree

And on the standing trees - love the shaping on the V

This crab stood its ground. Disappointed that the photo is out of focus a bit as the crab stood still. Normally they skedaddle

This photo captures the edge of the littoral rainforest - the edge of the river estuary

Short ride. The walk was well over 12k steps - so much for the lazy way

Friends came over for dinner - bbq'ed a fillet bought from the pop up store at home. Way cheaper than the supermarket and helping young team and a Victorian farmer

Was yum

Trade action: Swapped out two Japanese chips stocks for a Japanese semiconductor ETF. Also bought GLO.TO on news. Wrote all the covered calls for the month = a late night

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