The walk to Budjwa Bay in the early morning is always an incredible delight: the stillness that increases as you move down towards the bay itself, the early morning bird song and the wonderful efflorescence from autumn flowering plants like the Banksia Spinulosa and the Xanthorea Australis (Grass Tree/ Black Boy). Here is the Spinulosa…
Tag: Angophora
MidWinter Spring!
Little Gidding I Midwinter spring is its own season Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown, Suspended in time, between pole and tropic. When the short day is brightest, with frost and fire, The brief sun flames the ice, on pond and ditches, In windless cold that is the heart’s heat, Reflecting in a watery mirror A…
Teaching has finished: Back to Bushwalking!
Two recent wonderful trips: up to the heights above Galston Gorge and down to the edge of the Hawkesbury at Bujwa Bay. Sunrise over Galston Heights Angophora in a grass tree forest Mishapen Angophora renewing its lightning-lopped limbs Magnificent Angophora specimen on the way down to the Steele Bridge Galston Gorge Two Videos from the…
Sunday Morning Bush Bash
Made it this morning to the best spot overlooking the Hawkesbury Sandstone Plateau- just before dawn: Lot’s of autumnal wildflowers out, most spectacular this Banksia Collina, abundant all along the ridge tops: And the moist autumnal weather brings out a profusion of spider webs: Near the end of the walk ( around a 12 Km…
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