Blackbutt Creek - first 2025 orchids : January 3 2025

My wife is still sick. We canned the idea to drive down to Shoalhaven Heads for the weekend. Stay at home and recover. My day turned into catch up on the week’s investing stuff and Internet Marketing stuff. The more I dig there the more I fund stuff had fallen apart. Slow build in free time

Walked late afternoon down to Blackbutt Creek - a few garden flowers on the way. No idea what this is - eucalyptus is all I know

A few of these lilies flowering

Bromeliad flowering

One of the old houses down the street - no car parked today

Just a few bonnet orchids flowering

Cryptostylis erecta

Found one slender hyacinth orchid open - dipodium variegatum - all the others got fungal droop with a few seeded

Long walk to find next bonnet orchid

The white ball caught my eye. Perfectly formed cicada husk - smallest I have seen but still with some colour. They dry out really fast

Trigger flower just opening. Got to say there were not a lot of plants flowering

Dampiera purpurea - picked this for photo as there is a good background close up

Stopped at a spot to check on bonnet orchids - this moth was at my feet

Two mushrooms emerging from the tree bark - and a bonnet orchid leaf in right hand corner

Spent bonnet orchid against a backdrop of bark stripped tree and fallen bark

This bonnet orchid posed with great light

A new flower for me - it is a lobelia - got the ID request out on iNaturalist

Flannel flower on the way back to the road.

Got the steps done

Dinner: Chicken Jalfrezi with a cheat sauce from Berry Treat Factory This report was published via Actifit app (Android | iOS). Check out the original version here on actifit.io 03/01/2025 11036 Daily Activity, House Chores, Photowalking Height 183.0 cm Weight 90.0 kg Body Fat % Waist cm Thighs cm Chest cm