I spent the morning enjoying myself at Badger Weir.
There are some nice, short walking tracks to the weir along which I found many fungi
and many Mountain Helmet Orchids, Corysanthes sp. aff. diemenica (syn. Corybas diemenicus).
Several years ago I had been along one of the tracks and seen their leaves but it wasn't their flowering time.
They are mostly along Lyrebird Track, and I found the color of the boss interesting for the one in
image 9639.
There was also plenty of interesting fungus for me, a highlight being the black
Earth Tongue, Geoglossum species.
I'm assuming that's what it was, even though it was growing out the side of a tree-fern
(but the orchids grow on these tree-ferns too and they are considered terrestrial none-the-less).
I was taking lots of photos of all these fungi and orchids, so much so that my camera started to heat up
causing the lens to fog over. I had to give it a rest for a while and wait for the lens to demist.
I ended up taking nearly 1000 photos for the day, and ended up "clocking" my camera too.
That's now the 8th time I've clocked the image counter in under 2 years (since November 2005).
Photos of most of the animals were taken at Healesville Sanctuary.
The animals there are quite friendly, to the point where this
wallaby crawled around between my feet while I was trying to photograph it, even sampling my shoes.
