Nowra - North Nowra - Shoalhaven Heads ride and orchids : October 17 2024

Keen to go look for orchids in the dry scherophyll forest inland. Day shaping up too hot to cycle 20 kms in and then back. My wife wanted to go into town to do some phone changes. Great - caught a lift and ride back

Ride from Nowra Plaza across the river and up the hill to North Nowra

Ride right into Bomadery Creek Regional Park - saw a flash of blue in the long grass. Bottom flower just opening

Hard to get ID as the bottom petal is obscuring the column. Did not want to apply coaxing pressure

A bit more angle - very clear is the notched lobe like a horse hoof. Thinking thelymitra peniculata but no record of that in my local guide book - it says thelymitra pauciflora

Purple fan flower opening for the first time this season

Under the powerlines walk to find sun orchids - found one seeded

These are just opening up - first of the conesticks

Got an eye for the blue - dampiera stricta

Hibbertia stricta - note the green tendrils

Lambertia formosa.

Pale grass lily

Lily day - purple fringe lily

Drumsticks flower

Found this budding. No leaf to be seen - a few bracts forming. No real idea what orchid it is - too late for diuris. Lack of leaf suggests dipodium. Hope to get back to see it flower - there were two

Flowering right down at ground level

Matching leaves - goodenia - not been able to ID which

White kunzea

Lambertia formosa with a few ants

Burchardia umbrellata

Snake orchid up high - 3 metres above ground

Zoom in is a compromise - cymbidium suave

Zoom in more does show the structure of sepals, petals and labellum. Step ladder needed

Walk back became a oea flower day - pink

Yellow

Orange

Not sure what this is - a pea flower finished or something else

Trigger flower - too bright to show the pink

Three orchid walk is a win - one to see in a week or two open, one not seen open here and a sun orchid for spring

Road back passes the railway line to Manildra. Loco assembling the next train out.

Rest break at the Broughton Creek bridge with view of the Shoalhaven River

Ride done - orchids found - 4.4kms missing from the Strava record

My wife had bought fish and chips for her lunch. What she left made a perfect lunch heated up in the airfryer

Dinner: Chicken pasta dish with bacon.

Trade action: Late night adjusting LTBR, EU, CCJ, GEVO. Earlier was GLE.PA, HFG.DE

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