This week thought I’d venture further afield to look for mushrooms, so drove down to Fitzroy falls in the southern highlands of NSW south of Sydney. The drive was about an hour and a half, and our first surprise was that today was a free entry into the national park as they are celebrating their 40 year anniversary, so a good start. Last time I was there the bust track had quite a few mushrooms growing along the track so I thought since I wasn’t having any luck in my usual places I thought I’d try here, there’s waterfalls flowing all year round so figured it would be a good place to find some in the moist air there. However as we walked along the track I noticed that the normal damp tracks were dusty dry L so not a good look. There were plenty of wild flowers out though, So I took the opportunity to shot some of these hoping that mushrooms may turn up.

The first was a small white flowering plant, I haven’t been able to identify the plant yet of this one, but there was quite a few of these dotted around the bush.

Then the Mountain Devils (Lambertia Formosa) were out in flower. These little red flowers were also all over the bush and you could see these little red flowers everywhere.

The walk around the rim of the valley had several lookout so the falls so naturally you have to stop for a few shots of the various falls there the main falls are 81m high so a decent drop.

Also along the walk was several banksias this one was one from last season’s flowers and was opening up to allow the seeds to disburse these usually only open after a bush fire has been through.

But no luck on the mushroom front along this walk, as we were making our way back my wife mentioned that we actually had one growing in our back yard.

So after a drive for a nice bush walk,

We headed back home and found the mushroom of the day in my own back yard.  Sometimes thinks are right under your nose. 

Thanks for dropping by my blog, back next week.

Glenn