SANDSTONE COUNTRY IV / June 2011 Part I

Robin Falls is a small reserve along Dorat Road and about 18 km from the township of Adelaide River. The falls cascade off sandstone escarpment which is bounded by floodplain to the east and the Adelaide River to the west. The area is predominantly private land. The falls are spring fed and water is present throughout the dry season and attracts macropods like the Agile Wallaby, Antilopine Wallaroo at the base and on the cliff-faces, the Short-eared Rock-wallaby, and the Narbalek (elegant rock-weasle).

Motor Car Falls follows an historic vehicle track where, in 1946, the first motorcar entered the region. An impassable creek marked the end of the journey. Ever since, that creek has been called Motorcar.

Aristida holathera

Blumea sp. Motor Car Falls

Brown Leafhopper - Alotartessus iambe nymph

Jumping Spider Mimicry Motor Car Falls

Brown Leafhopper - Alotartessus iambe nymphs Motor Car Falls

Buchnera linearis

Burmannia juncea Motor Car Falls

Bush Carrot Cartonema sp.

Calytrix achaeta Motor Car Falls

Calytrix megaphylla

Charcoal-winged Percher Diplacodes nebulosa

Common Tropical Sharptail Stenocatantops angustifrons Motor Car Falls

Crotalaria goreensis Motor Car Falls

Darwin woollybutt Eucalyptus miniata Motor Car Falls

Diospyros calycantha Fruit Robyn Falls

Eriachne schultziana

Eucalyptus setosa Emergent Leaves Motor Car Falls

Eurybrachyid Planthopper - Eurybrachyidae sp. Feeding On Pachynema junceum

Ficus hispida Baroalba Springs

Four o clock Moth Dysphania numana

Golden Beard Grass Golden Beard Grass

Goodenia armstrongiana Robyn Falls

Grevillea decurrens Resin Robyn Falls

Haemodorum coccineum

Huntsman Heteropodidae sp.

Jumping Spider Cytaea severa Motor Car Falls

Kapok Bush Cochlospermum fraseri

Ludwigia sp. Motor Car Falls

Macrobathra desmotoma Robyn Falls