Two more walks

This covers the latest two walks we have done.  On Saturday we headed for the Narrows, basically covering on foot the area we took the kayaks a week or so back

The area is quite a dry habitat at the best of times and is being slow to rehabilitate after the fire.  Thus there wasn't a great deal to photograph.  The two aspects of this stump which caught my attention were firstly way the trunk has burnt, leaving the little supports and secondly the way it has revealed the soil carried into the trunk by termites.

To repeat, there is not much regrowth.

We finally found a patch of flowers.  Definitely Brachyscome, but they seemed much smaller than most we have found.  However after browsing the 21 species listed for East Gippsland in Flora of Victoria I have concluded that they were just stunted B. spathulata.  here are 5 flowers and more un-blossomed plants in this image.

A close-up.

Several of the Exocarpos cupressiformis had provided nesting sites for spiders.

They also had the fruit ('cherries') evident.  This one had lost the seed which usually sits on the end of the cherry.

A bridge on the track had partially burnt but walkers had helpfully lobbed logs into the water to fill the gap.  A little precarious and one got grubby hands clinging to the small convenient trunks.

On Sunday we headed for a stroll from Bastion Point.  Quite a few other folk had the same idea a fair proportion with rods.

This photo was to capture the Caspian Tern (second from the left).

A sample of a large group of Red-capped Plovers on the bar.  

There were a few Double-banded Plovers mixed in.  This one was running around at the ocean shoreline.  It is beginning to think about getting in to breeding plumage.

Birds don't have to be rare to look attractive.  A Silver Gull in full spiff breeding plumage is very good to see.

This was washed up.  We couldn't work out whether animal or vegetable, but probably ruled out mineral.