Goodbye Yellow Geebung Road - Yellow Day : January 18 2023

Busy morning on a hot day getting review video going for Million Dollar Warrior from Kevin Fahey launching tomorrow. Not done one for a while and this took a bit longer than normal.

Went on the bike to walk a track in Ku-ring Gai Chase NP to look for midge orchids. Rode some of the way down the track before walking. Banksia serratum

Different stage of flowering on the same bush

Did find a midge orchid budding - on the edge of the track right in the packed sand - going to guess it is fringed midge orchid. Will confirm next week.

Wanted to clear my head - walked to the end of the flat section and then down until I found the spots for bonnet orchids I know about. There is a long section with no orchids - at least 2 kms. Got to find other things - yellow became the theme. A different conesticks too

Pine needle for this geebung - different to the one seen a few days back - that is its name

Wreath pea flower

Leaf on this banksia says serratum but the shape of the flower is all wrong

More yellow as the scribbly gum sheds its bark

Pine leaf geebung with flowers open

Variable leafed goodenia

Dropped down the hill - craggy drop to the left above the road that winds down to Bobbin Head

Found bonnet orchids open at the planned turning point. Did check the downhill side of the track - there were orchids

Seeded hyacinth orchids

Bonnet orchids - cryptostylis erecta

A little further along the seeded process - can still see the purple blotches of dipodium variegatum

Did find some open on the way back - hard to photograph as they are quite deep.

This style works well taken a little further away

And then zoom the end photo in for a close up of the hairy labellum

Hibbertia of some type fits the yellow theme

Midge orchid on the south side of the track on the way back in same spot as last year

Good to get a ride in. Long walk made more comfortable as the clouds rolled in

Forecast is for rain tomorrow and maybe tonight. That got me mowing the back lawn. I hate the idea of having to rake again before I get to mow. Mow it, man.

Dinner: odds and ends on the BBQ with a side salad. Rain started after that was done

Got the IM review video out. Would be great to get a follow or two there. Will post the blog later today

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