St Ives Bike Ride - a new ride : October 18 2025

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Had a plan for a ride and orchid walk today. Catch a train and ride to a known spot for flying duck orchids. Got to the station - trains were messed up from an earlier incident. Change plans to ride a road across to St Ives on a hilly narrow road not ridden before

Took me past a reserve I have driven past - stop and have a look - a flash of yellow - hypericum

Context photo. It is one of the Sydney High Blue Gum remnants. I have walked a few now - not a home for orchids

Cycled across to Warrimoo Fire Trail in St Ives. Two orchids to check down here - sure pleased I am not doing the night half marathon down here in the dark. This track is wide and even but the bits I walked yesterday were not wide and level

One of the targets for today - snake orchids - found this one in a new spot - no buds

Found one more - this one us budding. Seems that cymbidium suave likes scribbly gum as the host - and land dropping off a bit from the level

Australian grass trees at the end of flowering. They seem to have liked the hazard reduction burn

Red spider grevillea down low

Sundew flowers - thought they were the same - but there are key differences

Rounded vs pointy petals and some differences in the core

Part one of mission - snake orchids flowering. This plant was high enough above the burn to survive the burn

Photo shows the way the burn worked up the trunk

Was Superman seen climbing a tree to get the photo? He chose the low risk idea. Could have climbed higher - why bother if there is a ground level one elsewhere close by?

Part two of the mission - flying duck orchids found a bit higher than previous visits

I did manage to disturb two plants - this one without knowing it was here. The labellum folds back up to trap the pollinator. Takes a while before they open up again

Did the wait. And then a slow process to get a still enough photo on a windy day. There was a cheat on the photo before. As the labellum was up I could hold the spike to keep the subject still

A flash of yellow - goodenia is my guess

There were lots of patersonia iris - got to share one

The ride was important as it took me on a road not ridden since we moved. The two hills are not too bad and the cars were well behaved. There are two ugly narrow bits with no shoulder. It does open up some long open riding ideas

Stopped at my favourite South African butcher on the way back. Clue for dinner = steak and boerewors - sorry no photos
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18/10/2025
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Cycling, Daily Activity, House Chores, Photowalking, Shopping
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183.0 cm
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90.0 kg
Body Fat
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Waist
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