Sunday, 1 June 2008

Lake Helios - 2002

I was talking to someone about Lake Helios and Mt Hyperion a little while ago. I managed to get some nice sunrise shots looking north when I was there, and I said I'd post them on the blog. Lake Helios is one of the most impressive places I've been. I had good weather, but the place must be awfully exposed in poor weather.

The photos are all scanned from prints. The film was Fujicolor 100. The third one is three prints put together obviously. It's too difficult to try to match them exactly, so you'll have to put up with the mismatched colour and contrast. Anyway, the view was superb.



Mt Ossa and Mt Pelion East from Lake Helios - 12th April 2002

Mt Ossa from Lake Helios - 12th April 2002
Thetis, Paddy's Nut, Ossa and Pelion East from Lake Helios - 12th April 2002

North West Bay River Fungus - 31st May 2008













Leotia lubrica: From Fuhrer (2005) - Fruit bodies to 50mm high with viscid stems. The fertile heads are roughly globose, or sometimes irregular...grows singly or in small colonies amongst leaf litter in wet forest and rainforest.



Chlorociboria sp.















Heterotextus sp. probably H. peziziformis, possibly H. miltinus.

Myrtle Gully Fungus Hunt - 31st May 2008 (3)
























Myrtle Gully Fungus Hunt - 31st May 2008 (2)


























Myrtle Gully Fungus Hunt - 31st May 2008 (1)

Myrtle Gully is reached via Old Farm Road. This leaves Strckland Avenue just behind the Cascade Brewery. Old Farm Road winds up the hill some way, and reaches a gate. Beyond the gate, various tracks are marked. You first head a short way up the Old Farm Track, and then take a left turn onto the Myrtle Gully Track. This track winds backwards and forwards across the creek, and appears to contain more species of fungi than most other places on Mt Wellington. This is both apparent on the ground, and by counts made.





























Sunday, 25 May 2008

Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo

Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, Cacatua galerita
This fellow was sitting in a tree along the Hobart Rivulet the other week. Noisy buggers aren't they? But still attractive.

Mt Wellington Fungi 3

Fungi, Mt Wellington, Tasmania - 24th May 2008This one is growing on the Octopus Tree.


Fungi, Mt Wellington, Tasmania - 24th May 2008



Fungi, Mt Wellington, Tasmania - 24th May 2008



Fungi, Mt Wellington, Tasmania - 24th May 2008