Footmobiling the clifftops

 On 17 November the Footmobiles decided to walk from Quarry Beach along the clifftops to Pebbly Beach.  According to my eBird app that was 2km each way.

The regrowth is now quite high.  I'm not sure quite what this grassy material is: I have heard it called 'sedge' but it didn't satisfy the mnemonic "sedges have edges".

The Melaleuca armillaris is sprouting, in some cases, from the lignotubers.  However it looks unlikely that it will form the monculture forest that was there: possibly a good thing.  I suspect it will take several years for the burnt trunks to fall, and longer for them to decay.

A gully down to the sea, populated with Cyathea australis tree ferns.

Looking West, towards Secret Beach.

Looking East - again towards Secret Beach.

There were some interesting flowers along the way.  This is a Fringe Lily Thysanotus sp.  I suspect it is T. tuberosus  based on the woodland habitat and the number of flowers per plant.

After months of ground covering vegetative growth the Kennedia prostrata is keeping the flowers happening for a good long while.

A solitary Caladenia carnea growing under a Solanum bush.

The shape of things to come!  I spotted several spikes of Dipodium sp (Hyacinth Orchid) growing along the track.  A couple of weeks at least off flowering.

This Lomandra longifolia has gone to seed.

Lomatia ilicifolia in flower

The Kangaroo apples (Solanum aviculare) have been showing big green berries (a la Granny Smith) for a long while.  I am waiting for them to go orange or red (Cox's Orange Pippin?)!

We were accompanied by one Pippa.  A very game little lady!

Someone had been creative adding twigs to span the gap in this stump. 

There were a good number of flies, which appeared to like the Footmobiles t-shirts.  To save you counting there are 26 in this image.

Another nuisance was this sign.  There is no reason whatsoever for this sign.  All works have been completed (very well completed, one has to say).  Presumably "they" have forgotten where they put out the signs: in some circles the track is known as the "Bureaucracy Track".