Sun orchids from Mount Ku-ring Gai : September 8 2025

Got a blue sky day and warming up. Coming down the week is a week of rain - best get out and enjoy the sun and warmth. Took a while to get moving with ideas of a drive, walk, shop. Chose around midday to do a train walk thing.

Got on the train and changed my mind about the walk. Travel one station further for a short walk into Ku-ring Gai Chase NP - target summer orchids

Got the first within 50 metres of entering the park. The sun orchids like temps over 25C - well over that

Lots of wax flowers open

The other blue contender is dampiera purpurea

Pea flowers. Met an old guy taking photographs. He has not walked this track in a lot of years - shared an orchid lesson

We talked about this cluster of flowers - I saw the bugs flying and got the photo

Found this orchid budding - probably a different type of sun orchid

Hit a big cluster of sun orchids on the other side of the track - facing west is better for flowering

A big cluster - counted the flower spikes - 3 in all. Spotted sun orchid - thelymitra ixioides

Close up

A different configuration - single spike with at least 8 flowers - you count - more than 10

Big wide open track - not a lot of orchid stuff along the track - not smashed by the track work this year

Saw a few orchids folded back like this - maybe drying out but more likely blown back by the big wind

Wax flowers across Cowan Creek below

Walked to the edge of the drop off. Big walk down to next orchid spots

Heading back - hibbertia

Wattle flower

Leptospermum squarrosum - did two photos - this one in the sun came out better. Enough colours other than white in the centre to keep focus right

Pea flower - the large one

Sydney boronia

Golden beetles making more on the big pea flower

Pink spider grevillea

Sun orchid on the way back deeper in the bush

Drumsticks flower close to being a drumstick

Starburst flower - my name

Track photo with pink spider grevillea

Another folded back sun orchid

Close up. Never seen this before

A sun orchid with only the faintest sign of spots

Walked a big loop through the suburb to check other bush access - found a waratah flowering in a garden

Station photo - toilets are locked. Building has a chimney. Guess in the old times you could sit in a warm waiting room and go to the loo.

Stopped in at shops on way home from station - a few essentials

Got the steps done - cooked BBQ for my dinner. Opened a 20 year old bottle of Semillon from Kelman Vineyard. Was on the wine committee when we decided on the wine. Semillon ages well - tends to get toasty - bit this one has not - at least 5 more years

Brings to end an emotional day. My wife's father was cremated today - as per his wishes - no ceremony
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