on Barrenjoey Headland

I was trying to get a decent photograph of this tea-tree. So far, using Rachel's camera produces better photos than I can using my fancy Nikon SLR....

Now, in summer, the riot of flowering heath of late winter has gone, but there were still some lone flannel flowers and native fuchsia. I was chasing this tea-tree, but the rain kept on coming down, so I had to put my camera away and come away..


Leptospermum


Looking up the Pittwater from Barrenjoey


Looking across to West Head in the misty rain

Walk

Barrenjoey Headland. On the path beyond the lighthouse.


Barrenjoey Headland. On the path beyond the lighthouse.

I had to go for a walk. Men came today to pick up the spare fridge. In the end they didn't take it. Theoretically, it was part of a 'fridge buy-back' scheme. But they wanted $200 to take it. I had waited all day and felt quite sick and miserable about it all. So I went for the walk.

I do love the silver of casuarinas and tea-trees. And for some reason the isopogons are so green. Very beautiful.

theses and botanising

I am currently writing up my thesis, and taking an inordinately and unnecessarily long time to do so. I have been on only one botanising walk, since my return to Sydney. (So, two photos from that walk.)

And here at work (avoiding work) I found a specimen from the NSW herbarium's record, with a photo of an actual plant collected by Banks and Solander. (If it is not from Banks & Solander, then it does come from the British Museum Collection..) Such an incredible collection. (Click to see it...)
Plantnet Acacia julifer



Casuarinas and banksia on Barrenjoey Headland.


Leptospermum squarrosum, a lovely tea-tree common in the coastal scrub.

Given that Acacia julifera was collected by Solander and Banks, here is a photograph of a beautiful tree planted, I think, in the 19th century, and a plant in the Botanic Gardens whose plaque says "Not collected by Banks and Solander". It is a magnificent tree.


Eucalyptus grandis.