Stone Star

Along the track in John Forrest National Park are a lot of rock formations, there I saw this huge star imprinted.

Mossy stones

Along the Swan River were also lots of mossy stones.

Bubbles of Seaweed

I was walking along the Swan River yesterday afternoon with a friend chatting about all the good things in life when I realised that the seaweed washed ashore was different than normally. They were shaped in little green balls made of rolled weeds. I first thought it was rolled up by the waves but it looks more like a special kind of seaweed which grows like that as there was so much of it in that area in Claremont.

Love

We were walking in John Forrest National Park today and I saw this heart on my path so I had to make a picture of it. How loveable is nature?

Weird lemon

This weird lemon is growing on one of our lemon trees. Don't know what happened to the poor fruit to be shaped like that.

Seeds of the Umbrella Tree

This are the seeds of the Umbrella Tree flower. They turn black after flowering and when you leave them for a while the seeds lose their black skin and become brown. I am not sure how it works seedwise, but I love the shape of these little balls.

Black Swan

A few years back around this time the Black Swans had already babies, but this year is late. They are still courting, that's maybe why his feathers are so immaculate.

White Faced Heron

This White Faced Heron, or also called Blue Crane, was standing motionless in the field of grass edging Lake Claremont.

Lake Claremont in August

Lake Claremont on Sunday morning. The water level is low, not yet 3.5 while it was almost 7 a few years ago in August 2005 when the little swans were already there as well.

Wattlebird in the honeypot

During the walk around Lake Claremont yesterday morning I came across this wattlebird sitting on a lower branch of a tree enjoying the honey from the eucalyptus flowers. He wasn't disturbed by anything around him, it must have been delicious.

Pink Eucalyptus flowers

We were walking around Lake Claremont this morning when I saw these beautiful pink flowers in one of the huge Eucalyptus trees surrounding the lake.

Decay

This is a tiny little leave or a seed(?) in a far state of decay which was laying on the concrete tiles outside. I kneeled to pick up something otherwise I wouldn't have seen it. How amazing is nature, look at all the veins coming from the inside.

Caterpillar

I came across this photo on my other blog as it's an old one from July 2005. This huge caterpillar was sunning on our neighbours fence in the warm winter sun. Isn't he pretty, with his fur coat?

Bees

I just watched an interview with a Dutch scientist about how bad it is in the world of bees, that their excistance is under pressure, and thought about the wild bees in Stockyard Gully NP I photographed last year during our Easter camping trip. There were heaps of this kind of structures hanging on the cave wall which where all burned off this year when we were there end of April. Why?

Tumour?

One of my natives, a small scrub tree, has a huge tumour growing on one of the branches. I have no idea what it is, I took this picture last week so will have a regular look at it to see the progress. Maybe it's a nest of some insect?