Australian Orchids

 

 

 When we were in Australia for our youngest son's wedding, we kept an eye out for orchids.  We found several but only one in bloom since it was winter there.  This is the one we found in bloom in the Glasshouse Mountains north of Brisbane, Barbara's Corybas.

Corybas barbarae

The next five photos are of what I believe to be Bulbophyllums, the first photographed in Mossman Gorge and the rest in the Daintree Rainforest.

Unidentified Bulbophyllums

This photo is, I believe of Cymbidium dayanum, photographed along the Manjal Jimalji trail in the Daintree Rainforest.

Cymbidium dayanum

The following two photos are of Dockrillia teretifollia, the first photo taken along the esplanade in Cairns and the second in the Daintree Rainforest area.

Dockrillia teretifolia

This last photo was taken in the Mossman Gorge and is possibly a Sarcochilus, but since I am not at all sure of the ID I've posted it as an unidentified orchid.

Unidentified Orchid

 

Sugar Cane and Cocoa

This post is a bit of a miscellany of photos taken during our stay in Port Douglas and on our way from Port Douglas back to Cairns and on to Brisbane.  The first few photo are from a brief visit to Daintree Village north of Port Douglas, where we had a beer and where the girls bought some post cards.  I wandered around photographing some birds and an orchid.

male and female Australasian Figbird

(this is the northern variety with a yellow breast)

 Bar-shouldered Dove

 Dockrillia teretifolia, an orchid

 Masked Lapwing

 Straw-necked Ibis

 Wedge-tailed Eagle

We also visited a Sugar Cane and Cocoa plantation and listened to a presentation there on growing these two important crops.

Sugar Cane

Cocoa pods and flowers

Word War II bomb site

varia

coast road from Port Douglas to Cairns

cairns on the Port Douglas to Cairns road

Kangaroo farm