Monday, August 6, 2012

Bush Walk

This post is for Our World Tuesday

This morning I went for a walk in the National Park which is immediately across the road from my house and behind the houses on that side.  There are tracks over there that meander through the bush and eventually come out on the road to Rainbow Beach which is on top of the hills at that point.  I haven't been able to walk any distance for quite a while so it was especially nice to walk over there.  It doesn't take long for you to be out of sight of houses and away from any human noise.  The track we walked along used to be a popular 4 wheel drive track but it has been closed for several years and the vegetation is growing thicker and closer.


There were quite a lot of earlier flowering wild flowers.  Wild flowers in my area mostly bloom in winter and spring as summer temperatures are a bit too hot.  This is a Patersonia which prefers the lower and wetter parts.

This is Hakea plurinervia with a number of ants crawling around the flowers.

This is Leucopogan pimeleoides (I think!) The flower is almost insignificant but the bush carries masses of these tiny flowers and the perfume is very delicate.  The friend I was walking with this morning grew up in Ireland and she said the perfume of this flower reminded her of Meadowsweet - although the look of the flower and plant was quite different. 

There were lots of bushes with these tiny yellow pea-like flowers - but I never did manage to sort out the different varieties.

The track follows the hillside above the upper reaches of what becomes Mullens Creek.  Most of the time we were out of sight of the creek.  The track then descends very steeply right down to the creek.  At this point it is a string of small but deep pools of water.  On the other side of the creek the track ascends very steeply again - but that part will have to wait for another day!



17 comments:

  1. that last shot is beautiful. perfect reflection and lovely blue.

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  2. How wonderful to have a place like that to walk and to enjoy the beauty! Your captures are really superb! I felt as though I were walking there myself! Have a great week, Mick!

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  3. Great area to hike!! Boom & Gary of the Vermilon River, Canada.

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  4. Beautiful photos the wild flowers should be good this year.

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  5. How beautiful everything looks !


    Please have a good Tuesday.



    daily athens photo

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  6. How wonderful to live so close to a national park! Treasures to be found and time and space to enjoy.

    Thank you for your comment on my blog, do you know the name of the grevillea?

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  7. Thank you Mick! Appreciate your time to reply. I can now more fully label my photo too.

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  8. One of my favorite things to do hiking in a national park. The wildflowers are pretty. Wonderful photos, thanks for sharing your world.

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  9. Beautiful pictures, love the pathways and the last two with their beautiful reflections the best. Thanks for sharing,

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  10. How wonderful to live so close to a National park. I really liked the photos of the wild flowers.

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  11. Great set of pictures - we have most of our flowers in late winter and spring as well.

    I wonder if crocs will start to be seen further south if things start to warm up.

    Cheers - Stewart M

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  12. A beautiful place to walk Mick, thanks for taking us along. (Gosh, it's gotta' be hard living so close to a National Park ;>)! How wonderful!!!)

    I may have missed something important as you said you haven't been walking for a while...I hope you have been well?

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  13. now you showed me some flowers i´m not used to. Beautiful ones. :)

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  14. loving the flora along your beautiful bushwalk

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  15. Lovely shots, beautiful wild flowers and reflections!! It looks so peaceful!

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