ANPS does the third bit of Nadgigomar

I followed direction and didn't get out of the car at the quarry so the images start when we eventually got to the Nature Reserve.

My expectation is that the snaps which follow will pretty much come in the order in which I took them. Some of the ones I ended up with were - to quote the current Princess Royal from a few years back - pretty naff, so I don't have any of two of the commonest genera Patersonia and Leucopogon.

Good of the NPWS to have put up this sign, but a pity that there is no mobile coverage in the area to check if they had in fact finished.  In the event we didn't hear any gunfire so I presume they had.
 On to piccies of things natural  Here is - I think - Bossiaea buxifolia.
This is the overall habitat.  The soil was basically sand.
The flower of the Schoenus sp.
 A grasshopper nymph.
 Mirbelia platylobioides
 Berries of Persoonia mollis.
 An orchid!  Diuris pardina.  (I think we were a little - about 100km - too far from Black Mountain for the usual D pardina vs D nigromontana war to erupt.)
 Lomandra glauca.
Philotheca salsolifolia
 Berry of Persoonia micropylla
 Acacia obtusata
Lomandra longifolia
Petalochilus fuscatus.  There were several colonies of the species located.  As usual they varied in colour from all pink to nearly white.
 A major zoom in to a flower of Exocarpos strictus.  At a rough guess these flowers are about 2mm across.  (They are of course not to be confused with Exocarpus strictos!)
 Epacris microphylla
 Hakea sericea
 Aotus ericoides: about the most elegant member of the Fabaceae seen today.  Note avoidance of the pea/bean controversy!
 Daviesia leptophylla
 Glossodia major
 Leionema diosmeum
Chloanthes parviflora: I didn't think these flora were at all 'parvi'.  In comparison to the Exocarpos they were huge!  Thus they earn two photos!

Kunzea parvifolia: why are all 'parvi' things mauve: is there a nuance of botanical nomenclature I have missed?
 Acacia brownii.
 There were some of the densest collections of scribbles I have ever seen.
A leaf beetle.  Possibly Paropsisterna sp?
 Being brave I will say this is an insect:  Roger Farrow has advised that is is Nysius vinitor.  It was perched on a Petalochilus petal.
The second rarest thing we saw today was a pair of rangers.  Apparently they were checking for illegal shooters, looking for cut fences etc.  (Why anyone would cut a fence when the gate was wide open when we arrived is a mystery.)  I have obfuscated the number plate: The NSW Government is not expressing its love for biodiversity.
 A bee fly perching on a rock showing the pretty pattern on its wings.
Moving right along to Claypit road this is Pultenaea microphylla, swathes of which decorated all the roadsides in the area.
This is much rarer - rarer even than the sight of Rangers in a Reserve - Bossiaea oligosperma of which only 2 sites are known.  Hopefully the landowners on whose property most of the plants here were growing will protect them.
 I was asked by a member to include an image of Lissanthe strigosa so here it is!
Very close to Claypit Rd was this display of gardening equipment.  By way of contrast the pair of toilet pedestals on Oallen Ford Rd seem to been moved.
After a surprisingly damp start to Sandy Point Rd, we drove along Willow Glen Rd pausing to take these two images of the most spectacular of the Pomaderris.


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