First finger orchids in Seven Beach NP : August 22 2023

Heading south after the garden crew have done their tidy up work. That did not go well as they muched two of my vegetable beds. Growing vegetables has not been easy and then the winter growing season gets smashed. Good thing we are selling - there will be no more effort in that arena. Did get moving around midday to go south

We shopped on the way for a few goodies

Gave me enough time to ride down to Seven Mile Beach NP to look for orchids - twining glycine to start

Spied a greenhood in a new spot - over the shoulder view

Blunt-tipped greenhood from the front - pterostylis curta

Native violet

Hovea pea flower

Saw this flash of white. Photo makes it look brighter than it was

First caladenia down south for the season. This starts a challenge for ID as there are so many variants. Key to ID is front and back of colums are green and two rows of calli - this one will be a double header

This is where ID gets hard - pink colour on the outside of the lobes with matching point of the column - caladenia catenata

Front on

The ID challenge does not stop here - maroonhood. The detail looks like pterostylis erecta. The NSW guidebook says those are only found north of Wollongong. The length of sepals are consistent with pterostylis erecta

Side on shows the elongated body of the galea

A differnt side on of another

This one does not have the elongation. Will post a side by side for the gurus - 3 in that post

Do know that this is one of two types with a bigger flower

Front on confirms with the twisted labellum - pterostylis curta - blunt-tipped greenhood

This bud has me guessing - maybe pterostylis nutans

Matching rosette

Got my rosettes mixed up perhaps

These I do know are pterostlyis concinna - the spider chose to come into the photo as a bonus

You cannot see me

Did find a pterostylis concinna still going close by

Another caladenia - green column front and back with a slice of pink between the calli on the labellum

Side on - pink form of caladenia catenata

And another with not quite the candy stripes

Each one is differnt - this one had a white tuft on the point of the column

With this one yelllow tip and darker pink flowers

A few buds on the east side of the the track

This little mushroom is getting bigger in minute steps each week

Short ride with walk about the same distance as the ride

Dinner: Use BBQ beef from last week to make a Thai Beef salad - needs spicy to work. Cut beef into bite size slithers. Marinade of a mix of olive oil, chopped garlic and ginger, sesame oil, soy sauce and fish sauce. Recipe uses palm sugar - used ketjap manis - sweet soy sauce instead. As the beef was already cooked marinate time was short at 20 minutes

Prepare salad - green leaves, cucumber, cherry tomatoes,. Season with same marinade - I added Worcestershire sauce and sliced chilli

Serve is supposed to be with crushed peanuts - chef forgot..sesame needs would work too.

Trade action: helps of covered calls. Will go slow for a bit to let markets catch up.

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