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This spotting is an old growth tree in the
Native Olive, aka Australian Olive, is an indigenous plant of the genus Olea ...
We saw a few of these little marsupials while hiking in
Also known as Tinder Fungus, Coal Fungus, Carbon Balls, and King Alfred's ...
directly beneath native Red Cedar and Strangler Figs, and nearby
Asplenium australasicum, commonly known as "bird's nest fern" and "crow's nest ...
A spectacular large bird with black feathers and a red head. It has a ...
This is a female. Females are distinctively green/brown or otherwise entirely ...
Stereum ostrea, also called "false turkey-tail" and "golden curtain crust", is ...
Wood-rotting bracket polypore fungi. Two specimens found on the root of a dead ...
The Glossy Turban Carnivorous Snail belongs to a family (Rhytididae) whose ...
My first encounter with this species. Some would say the plumage of the Grey ...
Small reddish-brown fungi. Very soft and jelly-like to touch. Bracket ...
The Strangler Fig (aka Watkin's Fig) is a hemiepiphytic fig that is endemic to ...
The Strangler Fig is a hemiepiphytic fig that is endemic to Australia, and this ...
Who said fungus can't be fun, particularly when it looks like Mickey Mouse?! ...
Red Cedar (Toona ciliata) is a forest tree in the mahogany family which grows ...
This was a big animal, and I almost died when it shot out from the rocks and ...
The remains of a Glossy Turban Carnivorous Snail. It belongs to a family ...
Funnel-shaped agaric growing in overlapping clusters, and it is ...
I didn't recognise these brackets at first. There were two distinct areas of ...
This is the largest bracket fungi I have ever seen (photos 1 & 2). There were ...
Fomitiporia robusta (formerly Phellinus robustus) most likely sp. I found this ...
Cartoon characters? Sadly not, although they do have character. These are Grass ...
"Red-necked wallabies are distinguished by their black nose and paws, white ...
"The Red-browed Finch is most easily recognised by its bright red eyebrow, rump ...
"The Yellow-throated Scrubwren is a small, ground-dwelling bird with a ...
A gorgeous male King-Parrot. These males are "the only Australian parrots with ...
When I see Grass Trees I think of the Australian bush with all its ...
Up there as one of my favourite birds, the Pied Currawong is "a large, mostly ...
The Eastern Whipbird is "mostly dark olive-green above, with a long tail, and a ...
Also known as Black Jezebel. Not sure if this is a male or female as I was ...
This juvenile was already quite used to humans. The Red-necked Wallaby is ...
This is a male! In their breeding plumage, these stunning little Fairy-wrens ...
There are five subspecies of which three are actually crimson (Wiki), and ...
Archontophoenix cunninghamiana, commonly known as the Piccabeen Palm, is an ...
These beautiful, predatory birds are an overall black/slate grey colour with ...
The Australian Magpie is "black and white, but the plumage pattern varies ...
with my other recent spotting of Stereum ostrea at the
A bracket polypore and club fungi species which occurs naturally in Queensland. ...
A bracket polypore and club fungi species, "horsehoof fungus" is very ...