A fine morning in Rockhampton. Check this guy out! Unbelieva-bull. I thought taking a photo was free but there were hidden charges.
Hill Street in Yeppoon – family ancestors home in the early 1940s.
Supplies from Yeppoon – a french bakery where the pain is real.
Waterpark Creek at Byfield
The Bowenia Rainforest Circuit features riverine rainforest with the ancient fern-like cycad, Bowenia serrulata (Byfield fern).
Byfield fern
Why the scientific name is serrulata.
Another cycad species at Waterpark Creek (Macrozamia miquelii)
Flowering Cabbage palm (Livistona decora) which has a range from Magnetic Island along the coast to Rainbow Beach.
Bowenia circuit – we saw a massive red-bellied black snake not long before this.
Piccabeen palm at Waterpark Creek. The Piccabeen palm’s range is from Mackay to Bateman’s Bay in NSW. A close relative, the Alexandra palm grows from Melville Range on Cape York to Gladstone so there is an overlap in this area. The Piccabeen Palm has pale pinky purple flowers and is green on the underside of the leaf. The Alexandra Palm has creamy white flowers and is powdery white on the underside of its leaf.
Tendrils on the rainforest vine
Freycinetia scandens along the creek
Scrub turkey
Spangled drongo
Waterpark Creek
Waterlily
Callistemon flowering along Waterpark Creek
Grey fantail
Varied triller
Pine plantation opposite Byfield National Park with Mount Atherton in the background
Grevillea banksii
Banksia robur circuit
Creek on the Creek to Coast walk
Nativie hibiscus (Hibiscus splendens)
Track on the Creek to Coast walk – the rangers told us it was very snaky (taipans, eastern brown snakes, and death adders are found here).
The return walk
Banksia robur and Melaleuca heathland at Byfield National Park.
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