29/8/21 – Orchids and other beauties of the bush at Tozer’s Bush Camp

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The first orchid flower was found right near our camper (a spider) and the next also very close (a leek orchid) . These both happened before we even headed out on our orchid tour. The tour started at a very reasonable 9:45am as they wait for the sun to be out and the orchids to have a chance to open.

I think the best way to show you what we saw is to put the pictures here with names on them for you. Basically the day was taken up with seeing these, talking about them, documenting them and feeding ourselves and then falling in to bed to be ready for travel the next day.

Queen Victoria Hakea

Red beak leaves and red rattle beak orchid and leaves(more pointy)
Acorn Banksia
different stages of Albany Banksia
King Spider Orchid
Fertilised Jug orchid
Banded Greenhood
Sugar Orchid
Prostrate Banksias
Teddy Bear Banksia
Ravensthorpe Snail Orchid (very small)
Albany swamp Daisy
Large Spider Orchid
Western Wheatbelt Donkey
Tiny Pink Cunzea
Bearded Bird Orchid

Clump of Cowslip orchids
Bee Orchid
Hyperdermic Bush (for obvious reasons)

Cauliflower Hakea
Dancing Spider Orchid
White Spider Orchid
Frog Hakea
Blue Bearded Orchid
Bunny Orchid (missing one ear)

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST (DRUMROLL PLEASE…..) THE QUEEN OF SHEBA ORCHID

note the amazing spiral leaves.

This was our last night together on the trip as we all had slightly different ideas of what we wanted to do on the way home and how fast we wanted to travel. When we got up and moving the next morning Craig and Evelyn were already gone.

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