Excursion to Cape Surville, Oct 2010
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Excursion to Cape Surville, Oct 2010
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Setting out; the first part of the walk was through light bush and heathland. GF |
Looking for tadpoles. GF |
Tasmanian grasshoppers, Tasmaniacris tasmaniensis. GF |
Common froglet. AbT |
The track passes through a gully with gigantic manferns, Dicksonia antarctica. GF |
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. GF |
A Striated pardalote about to exit its hollow in a Eucalypt. MD |
Balamara albovittata. AbT |
Cicada nymph. AbT |
Caterpillars bunched on a tea-tree. AbT |
Two views of a flightless fly, about 3mm long. AbT |
Mayfly orchid, Acianthus caudatus. AbT |
Astroloma pinifolium (pine heath) in flower. JW |
Boronia pilosa (hairy boronia) flowering in woodland alongside the track. JW |
Pterostylis melagramma (black-striped leafy greenhood) in flower along the coastal part of the walk. JW |
Photos by Abbey Throssell, Geoff Fenton, James Wood, Michael Driessen |