Eventually I have got out to take some images 🙂 It’s late autumn here now but very dry so there isn’t as much fungi as normal.  I did find this old gum tree in the dark shade of the forest which had an explosion of tiny fungi down a branch, much to my delight.  The vibrant green is wet moss  🙂
This was taken last month, late,  on a very dull overcast afternoon at the  Lauriston Reservoir in Kyneton. This is the wall of the spillway, at the top there are sluice gates that open and so that in the residual run off, several different types of algae (or maybe a different age?) have grown producing these rainbow stripes.
The week just gone by I spent on Kangaroo Island which is off the coast of South Australia. Â Saw some incredible things. Â This is the first blog of probably quite a few! Â These are the ‘Remarkable Rocks’ – and they really were! Â Taken about an hour or so after sunrise.
Today we went for a walk at Cameron Lodge Garden in Mount Macedon which is renowned for its beautiful historical gardens. Many of the gardens are over a 100 years old and contain fine examples of rare northern hemisphere trees and shrubs. Â As we enter autumn the colours and fungi are magnificent.
This afternoon I found fungi growing in the wood mulch of the garden – yes autumn is here. Â Apart from the orange ones which were really bright, the others were so tiny I almost missed them. Â Most were the size of a match head. Â My knowledge of these types of fungi could probably fit on a match head so if anyone knows what they are I’d be glad to hear!
A week and a half ago I bought a small mushroom growing kit. Â I’ve never grown them before. They are Pearl Oysters and I think they are dinner tomorrow!
The Camels Hump is the highest peak of Mount Macedon situated in central Victoria. Â The air is very clean allowing for a variety of different types of lichen to flourish. Â It also has Snowgums, Â the hardiest type of all Eucalypt.
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