First season greenhood in Seven Mile Beach NP : May 14 2025

Forecast is for some rainy days ahead - best get out riding and walking before the rain comes. Got on the bike before lunch to walk front section of Seven Mile Beach NP closest to home

Spied this moth at home as I was getting ready - not seen one like it

Hoping to find a helmet orchid flowering - first one budding

Lichen in 3D

Spied this bit of gloss - carapace of a bug - bug is no longer

Was a day for mushrooms - deleted a lot of out of focus photos

Pushed through the leaf litter - same type as the one before

Next helmet orchid bud - about the same stage as the one before

Turned up edges shows the ribbing beneath

Track is a bike path too - this rider walked home

At last an open pixie caps orchid - acianthus fornicatus

Pollinator was too quick to pose

Budding greenhood orchid

Side on of acianthus orchid showing the column

Walked the extra to check the budding orchids seen last week - flowering. Flower open with forked labellum tells me it is pterostylis concinna - trim greenhood. Not what I thought

View from behind

Acianthus orchid with attendant pollinator and signs of pollonia

Front on with pollonia in the front of the labellum

Big cluster of mushrooms off track introduces a whole new area to look for orchids - off track

Mushroom in toasted brown

Two for one orchid photo - budding greenhood and acianthus leaf

Triple decker plus one

Also in white with ripples

The best developed helmet orchid - can just see the spurs of corysanthes aconitiflorus - spurred helmet orchid

Rounded shapes

Upturned edging

Black mushroom on a mossy base

So many mushroom types - autumn is the time for them

In pink on a side track pushing through the sand base of the track

Larger scale - a bit smaller than a saucer

Side track walk to see if chiloglottis orchids are still going - found one

Side on - chiloglottis diphylla

Fire ant stopped just long enough

This pink mushroom pushed a bit further from the sandy track showing its ribs

Easy ride and a good walk for one new season orchid. Of note, Fitibit records fewer steps than Actifit on the phone

Did cook dinner - a beef casserole from thehead

Sear the chopped beef and then saute the chopped onion, celery, carrot and garlic. Deglaze the pan with wine and some beef broth

Tossed in a bunch of herbs from the garden - sage, oregano, thyme, parsley. As dish simmers for a long while no need to chop herbs - just pick out the stalks later. A few tablespoons of tomato salsa and paste - thickening from there. Flavours - ketjap manis and soy sauce. Add in seared beef and simmer for a good hour and a half

Serve with mash and green veges

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Cycling, Daily Activity, House Chores, Photowalking

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