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After driving for almost 15 hours from NYC, i arrived at Botany Bay on time for Sunset. After taking a turn on to a unpaved road from SC 174, canopy of trees brought much needed energy for me continue the drive towards the plantation. After traveling for couple of miles, another turn led me to the information kiosk. I did not check for days or hours of operation, but i was lucky to go there on a non-hunting day. This 4000 acre wildlife management area offers lot of photo opportunities for folks who likes nature and bird photography. But my primary focus was on Boneyard beach, a beach known for dead trees caused by erosion.
Arrived at the parking lot designated for beach access after 5 min drive from the main gate and started a hike on a marked trail towards the beach. After passing through marsh lands and a set of dense trees, i was amazed to see the trees stranded in the ocean with nice sunset hues.
I was the only person on the beach and walked another quarter mile to find a right spot to take some photographs. I was expecting some wave action but unfortunately i went there during low tide. The sun was already set and with light fading away quickly i could not try multiple compositions rather stuck at same place trying to get a better photograph with available light. Not sure about the photograph but the trip was worth it.
LNER Class 91/1 No.91115 Blaydon Races is seen passing through Botany Bay Nr Retford on the 23rd of June 2020, working the 17:30 1S27 from London’s King’s Cross to Edinburgh.
Taken with the aid of a pole.
Botany Bay is a special place. The ghost trees on the beach provide a surreal and stark subject matter in juxtaposition to the sea. This was my fifth time photographing this incredible area and I was lucky to get some dramatic storm clouds at first light.
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Chrysolopus spectabilis
Family: Curculionidae
Order: Coleoptera
This spectacular weevil was collected during captain Cook's first voyage to Australia. Botany Bay Weevil might have been a misnomer by Captain Cook's people, as he was in Botany Bay in a cold wet April and the BBW was probably not around at that time year. It has been suggested that it might have been collected further north and there was some mix up.
It can be found throughout the southern states of Australia and it is known to feed on 28 species of Acacia.
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Name: Botany
variation mod. Multiflora kusudama.me/#/?name=Multiflora
Designer: Ekaterina Lukasheva
Variation: Uniya Filonova
Units: 30
Paper: 7,5 x 7,5 cm
Final height: ~ 10,5 cm
Joint: no glue
The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands :
London :Printed for B. White,1771.
Taken near the summit of the geologically wondrous Mount Cardigan.
And much of Mount Cardigan's summit is bare rock: the Early Devonian Kinsman Granodiorite, now reclassified by petrologists as a quartz monzonite (see Part 2 of this set). The large potassium-feldspar phenocrysts of this igneous intrusive rock type are visible in the foreground.
However, the summit is also home to scattered island plant communities of what New Hampshire ecologists call the Subalpine Heath-Krummholz association. The term "krummholz," derived from the German word for "crooked wood," refers to the windblasted Red Spruces (Picea rubens) that survive here only in low, contorted forms.
When I took a good look at this particular island, i found that it was remarkably well laid out in distinct zones of different species, as though a gardener had carefully placed the lowest growers in front and the tallest in the center. On the edges there were Prostrate Crowberry (Empetrum nigrum) and Mountain Cranberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea var. minus); a little farther in, the mini-shrub Labrador Tea (Ledum groenlandicum) dominated. And in the middle, joining the scraggily Red Spruce, was Mountain Ash (Sorbus americana), here visible as almost-bare stems that had not yet leafed out fully by mid-May.
To see the other photos and descriptions in this series, visit my Exploring the Granite State album.
Looking at a striking mushroom found in the old-growth beech-maple (i.e., not coniferous) forest just east on the main park trail between Warren Woods Road and the Galien River footbridge.
I keyed this specimen out, as best as I could in the field, to Agaricus placomyces. But I stress that the identification, which was literally quick and dirty, is tentative.
Please note that I have not pumped up the color of this photo. The bright pink was indeed as you see it here.
The cap diameter was approximately 11 cm / 4.3 in. Originally it was an off-white to a buff or beige color with a dark-brown center and dark scales farther out as shown. It blushed pink only after it was picked up by one of my tour participants. I then placed the mushroom on my car's hood (seen here) where the cap color continued to deepen rapidly while I leafed through my shroomers' identification manual.
The gills were pink both before and after the mushroom was picked. The stem, which like the gills will be more visible in the next image of this series, was long and graceful, rather than short and stocky. It had a persistent white ring.
This photo was taken on a very rainy day. Everything in the woods, from giant tree trunks to understory plants and mushrooms, was dripping wet.
If my assignment to A. placomyces is correct, the pinkification of its cap was probably due—from what I've read—to the sodden weather conditions. However, I'm also aware that this species its variable in appearance. (So what else is new in mycology?)
No spore print was possible, and I was not packing any KOH. As was intimated above, I was leading a tour and could not spend the time conducting mycological research while everyone stood around waiting for me. So I took a few photos and returned the mushroom to the forest floor, where its spores could go on their merry way when the time was right. If they hadn't been shed already, before the rain hit.
To see the other photos and descriptions of this series, go to my Wonders of an Old-Growth Forest album.
[Laos / ラオス]
Distribution: Indo-China (41 LAO THA VIE)
Lifeform: Epiphyte
Basionym/Replaced Synonym:
Pteroceras laoticum Seidenf., Nat. Hist. Bull. Siam Soc. 21: 65 (1966).
A couple of iPhone 6+ shots at one of my favourite beaches. Pretty impressed by the camera on this phone!
Plantes nouvelles d'Amérique /.
Genève :Imprimerie de Jules-Gme Fich, Rue des Belles-Filles, 40,1833-1846..
The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. discovery ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839-1843.
London :Reeve Brothers,1844-1860..
Deutschlands flora in abbildungen nach der natur
Nurnberg :Gedruckt auf kosten des verfassers,1798-[1862]
Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society of London..
LondonPrinted for the Royal Horticultural Society by Spottiswoode & Co..
With the Kelloggs cereal factory looming over them, VL351 and DL47 lead T171 trip train out of Botany Yard, bound for Sandown. At Sandown the remaining empty wagons will be loaded with empty containers, the locos will draw the train clear of the yard and wait for T185 to shunt and load with empty containers before the two rakes would combine to form 1877 to Dubbo.
Fast forward to present day. Sandown yard closed in mid 2010. Patrick PortLink shortly after wound up their NSW operations completely. The DL Class now see only sporadic use with owner Pacific National opting to store the bulk of the class in favour of more modern motive power. The Dubbo freight is now operated using modern C44aci locomotives owned by Fletchers International Exports and crewed by SSR.