Upper Ballanjui Falls and Tullawallal

Visiting Binna Burra for the third consecutive week, dad and I combined two short walks to Upper Ballanjui Falls and the Tullawallal circuit.

Surprisingly, in all the years spent exploring this area I had never done the latter. This turned out to be a nice easy detour passing through temperate forest and antarctic beech trees surrounded by mossy boulders. The other highlights from this dual walk were waterfalls and fungi, both accentuated by recent rain.

Coprinus disseminatus mature caps in the top right and young caps bottom right. The big shady fungus is an intruder.

Nagarigoon Falls

We also spotted a couple of interesting animals - a snake snoozing in the sun beside the track to Upper Ballanjui Falls, as well as a small furry tree-dwelling mammal that we glimpsed dancing around a tree both on the way to and from Guraigumai rock.

Cryptophis nigrescens (Small-eyed Snake)

Old Man Jim Jam at the top of Upper Ballanjui Falls

Marasmius haematocephalus of a very orange variety