SANDSTONE & VINE FOREST JULY 2011 Part III

This season has allowed me to challenge myself in Sandstone Country which is both rugged and tricky and I have taken my lumps, but I also can appreciate creating my own path and the rewards of arriving at places where you come to understand that just maybe you are part of the local cycle. I have learned a few new adages. “If it looks flat it probably is not”; “It might look impassable from a distance but when you get there it’s a lot easier than it looked” & “The most dangerous part of the hill is the last two steps when you think you are down” I have also come to appreciate a pair of good shoes and how it is important for them to never to be good for only 1/2 of a walk.

Finally, I have even learned some new terminology such as “A kolk (also known as colc) is an underwater vortex that is created when rapidly rushing water passes an underwater obstacle in boundary areas of high shear. High velocity gradients produce a violently rotating column of water, similar to a tornado.[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolk].

When you experience the word is usually leads to a shared understanding of how the world works.

Nursery Web Spider Family Pisauridae Hygropoda lineata Sandstone Country

Orange Ringlet Hypocysta adiante Point Stuart Evergreen Vine-forests
Osbeckia australiana Lower Motor Car Creek Falls Sandstone Country
Oxyopes elegans Point Stuart Evergreen Vine-forests
Pachynema junceum Sandstone Country
Paper Wasp Ropalidia gregaria CloseUp Motor Car Falls Sandstone Country
Paper Wasp Ropalidia gregaria Motor Car Falls Sandstone Country
Paper Wasp Ropalidia gregaria Nesting Motor Car Falls Sandstone Country
Planthopper Cicadellidae sp. Feeding On Acacia sp. Point Stuart Evergreen Vine-forests
Planthopper Family Tropiduchudae Possible Rhinodictya quaesitrix Kirkaldy CloseUp Feeding On Juvinile Fern-leaved Grevillea Grevillea pteridifolia Kambolgie Creek Sandstone Country
Planthopper Family Tropiduchudae Possible Rhinodictya quaesitrix Kirkaldy CloseUp Feeding On Juvinile Fern-leaved Grevillea Grevillea pteridifolia Kambolgie Creek Sandstone Country
Planthopper Fulgoroidea sp. Feeding On Pandanus spiralis Kambolgie Creek Sandstone Country
Pod-Sucking Bug - Riptortus serripes Sandstone Country
Polyrhachis bicolor Feeding on Carallia brachiata Point Stuart Evergreen Vine-forests
Possible Cave Reedling Indolestes obiri CloseUp Sandstone Country
Possible Cave Reedling Indolestes obiri Sandstone Country
Possible LASIOCAMPIDAE sp Larvae Feeding On Acacia multisiliqua Sandstone Country
Red-collared Lorikeet Trichoglossus rubritorquis Motor Car Falls Sandstone Country
Restless Flycatcher Myiagra inquieta Male Kambolgie Creek Sandstone Country
Ricania sp. Sandstone Country
Rosella Hibiscus sabdariffa L. Kambolgie Creek Sandstone Country
Scarlet Morning Glory Ipomoea hederifolia Kambolgie Creek Sandstone Country
Spermacoce calliantha Motor Car Falls Sandstone Country
Sulpher-crested Cockatoo Cacatua galerita Kambolgie Creek Sandstone Country
Thread-waisted Caterpillar Hunter - Parapsammophila eremophila Sandstone Country
Thread-waisted Caterpillar Hunter - Parapsammophila eremophila Transporting a NOTODONTIDAE sp.Larva Front View Sandstone Country
Thread-waisted Caterpillar Hunter - Parapsammophila eremophila Transporting a NOTODONTIDAE sp.Larva Sandstone Country
Tiger Crane Fly - Nephrotoma australasiae Motor Car Falls Sandstone Country
Two-spined Rainbow Skink Carlia amax Motor Car Falls Sandstone Country
Weevil CURCULIONOIDEA Possible APIONIDAE sp. Kambolgie Creek Sandstone Country
Wrightia pubescens Point Stuart Evergreen Vine-forests

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