Seven Mile Beach orchid ride and walk : December 29 2025

Struggling to hold together what day is what. I do know my wife headed out for coffee. I do know we drove into Nowra to do some shopping. That left me enough time to do a short ride to walk for orchids in Seven Mile Beach NP

Walked the track the other ways around to normal - was sure there was a hyacinth orchid that survived the last hazard reduction burn. Indeed there was - two plants together - slender hyacinth orchid

Front on - dipodium variegatum

Side on with a view of the sandy trail they grow alongside

The trail gets chopped back regularly - the palms soon assert their rights

A tiny native violet - smaller than usual - for my granddaughter Violette

Found this dipodium along that way - one spike and one new forming - green colour has me confused

Bud forming - a bit lacking in spots but likely to be dipodium variegatum which flowers later than the others

Always pays to look up especially on a blue sky day

A bit of fungal moss - not what one wants in the NP bush - makes good photos

2nd of the dipodium variegatum seen today on its last flower drooping stage. I do know I photographed this last visit. How?

Last time I saw a spider slipping along its web away from the camera. Caught it this time. Notable is how long and skinny it is

Side on - no spider - it was along the Web

Next dipodium along - one survivor in a corner that normally has a few plants. Wallabies nobbled the ones in the open - this is one of two under some scrub

Photo from the other side of the other plant flowering

Back to looking up in the blue. There was a fair bit of bird activity up there - not turned into a twitcher yet

Did take a few photos of grass heads earlier in the walk but none in focus - they did get me looking. Reward is a grass head with insect action - fly vs mosquito?

Did get some ant action. There was one posing in attack mode while its mate crawled up my camera stabilising finger on the ground. Got it off before the pincers got me

One more budding hyacinth orchid in a known spot. Its mate got munched. Probably dipodium punctatum judging by colour of the spike

Bush was noisy with cicadas - bigger than this husk

Back to grass heads and bugs - fly this time

Took a while to get this photo of buds having over the track - slightest breeze makes for lots of blurred pictures

Nice easy ride and walk in a compressed timeline. It is what I like on the South Coast. East to get to the bush on the bike. No traffic worries

Went across to friends for dinner - oysters and prawns and ham was the offer. No oysters as shucking knife is lost - tomorrow. Did save me cooking but I did have to walk the dog a few times. She insists on walking to our house - runs around and heads out
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