Sunday, 29 August 2010

Tinaroo Lake - Atherton Tablelands 25-08-10

Little Curlew and chicks

Python tree - this tree is harder, smoother, and above all colder to feel than any other surrounding trees - why?


Mysterious fungi

Epiphyte


Redleaf figs eaten by birds and animals


Paperbark Satinash - this beautiful paperbark is distinctively red! The Yidniji people used the young hard straight grained tree for making spears

Figbird

Caught by 'wait a while!'




Stinging tree - many in this area The stem core was roasted and chewed like gum by the Yidinji people.

Little curlew

Masked lapwing - plover family




Grevillea

Shot by Alan - full moon on Lake Tinaroo

Early morning on Lake Tinaroo



View from an Atherton Tablelands lookout

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