Author: our natural world
City of Sydney Sculpture Walk 2
City of Sydney Sculpture walk 1
2024: and a nature wander through the year
This version is a different sedt of images, in a different format – a PowerPoint, with musical background to a set of images devoted to our wild world!
It is my gift to us all in the hope that we may come to cherish nature in all its many iterations; that we may come to fight for it in the face of rampant exploitation.
2024: A Year in Pictures
Wandering around Royal National Park
The block of land within Royal National Park near Heathcote East has an endangered ecological community known as the “Duffys Forest ecological community in the Sydney Basin Bioregion”
It occurs on the ridgetops, plateaus, upper slopes and occasionally mid slopes on Hawkesbury sandstone geology, typically in association with laterite soils and soils derived from shale and laminite lenses and on the ridge lines out from Bottle Forest Road this is exactly what we get. It is endangered because this is also a desired location for housing development. Thankfully, this area is within the NPWS estate.
While it is indeed a special area, it suffers from proximity to suburbs and easy access to a rail line and unfortunately there are many mountain bike tracks – some legal but many illegal unchecked expansion – that are leading to fragementation, erosion and loss of biodiversity values.
Despite that, it is worth looking at over the course of the changing seasons and even at this late stage in November, well after the major flowering, there was much to enjoy, if only people took the time to “walk slowly”
The Kurnell Peninsula
The attachment is a report on two visits made over the past week to this area. The two visits covered the same territory. The first was at high tide. The second was half waay between a low and the high tide.
Kurnell peninsula has been much abused over the years and we truly need more robust protection of its ecological values.
Road Trip SW NSW, October 2024; Part 2
Using Narrandera as our base, we visited Bundigerie Hill, Mejum SF, Gillenbah SF, Gillenbah TSR, Murrumbidgee Valley National Park, Cocoparra National Park, Fivebough Ramsar wetland and, en route home, Mundoonen Nature Reserve
Road Trip SW NSW, October 2024 – Part 1
Including visits to Jindalee National Park, Ingalba Nature Reserve, Jerilderie and TSRs, Yanga National Park and Mungo National Park
A Floral Love Affair with Dharawal National Park
Or just a tiny corner, in one morning: September 11th 2024
When you download it and click play, make sure you have sound enabled. The slide show will roll wthout you needing to click. And let the magic of flowers wash over you
Our Natural World 