New Season Helmet Orchids : May 15 2023

Wake to a blue sky day. My wife headed off into the city. Somehow frittered the morning away - a few house chores. Wrote up a slice of the week's investing and the blog post.

Took the lazy way for a walk. Drove down to Empire Marina to walk Warrimoo Track looking for autumn orchids especially greenhoods

Maybe better described as a mushroom walk - delicate white fringes

Brown caps

A bit more like an island beach hut

Did find promise of helmet orchids - probably spurred helmet orchid

Lyre bird walked in front scratching at the track - got a silhouette photo

Budding mosquito orchid.

The walk was punctuated by sound. The tide was running in - so lots of fish splash as they chased food coming upstream. Clicking sound of oysters as they opened and shut as the water came up. Lots of bird sound. And all the way, the lyre bird on the other bank doing its mimic thing

The sand flats is where some of the noise was coming from

Epacris longifolia always on this track almost all year around

New shoots

Budding greenhood - maybe nodding greenhood

Budding cobra greenhood - pterostylis grandifloris

Banksia. Was going to turn around before the 3rd ridge as it is short of orchids. Decided to walk to the cliff and back. Just short of the cliff found these

This is a rare photo chance with no human intervention. The flower on the right has pushed up on the flower on the left and folded over. So we can see inside the helmet of the corybas aconitiflorus. Normally one has to engineer these photos.

Was a nice cluster of spurred helmet orchids.

Kept walking under the rock face and up above saw this

Tom Cats orchid - cestichis reflexa - known spot

More mushroom action - turned around a lot further than originally planned

One of those puff mushrooms

On the way back found the colony of toothed helmet orchids flowering - four or five flowers

Bud forming

Front on. Best part of using a phone is photographer does not have to be behind the camera. Good thing here as his feet would have been in the water.

Top down view of the colony

Photo up the slope - corybas pruinosus

Always amazed at the mushroom variety

Easy to get an underside photo too

Growing on a log

The lyre bird was walking back down the track where I saw it on the way in. It was pretty relaxed about my presence.

Good to get 5 orchids in flower - only 4 photographed as the mosquito orchids were in the last week post. Walk done and back home

We went off to a friend's place to pick a big fridge for free. Dropped my car off for service on the way. Got the fridge loaded. Had a drink there - was nice reflection of respective mother's day events.

Came home to cook dinner - beef rendang made from scratch with the leftover short beef ribs.

Trade action: Bought BASS.PA - French Real Estate

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