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Midwinter on the Fleurieu’s southern edge: bark, moss, fungi & leaf litter

 

 

If you are partial to mosses and fungi, the premier South Australian place is the floor of the old-growth stringybark forest in Deep Creek National Park.

The best time to go there is midwinter, in a cool, wet winter.

It is less than two hours’ easy driving away from Adelaide, but in a “proper winter” this forest “feels” like another planet.

Moss and fungi co-star in today’s featured image, but this is the last time in this series that any plant species will enjoy “hero” status.

The next post’s hero fungi are neither a whole lot weirder, nor very much bigger than today’s.

However, not long thereafter…

Published in Australia (not WA) nature and travel photographs