Yesterday as is our wont Deb and I got out and about.
We stayed relatively close to home, deciding to have a late breakfast and head for an abandoned gold-rush era cemetery.
After a light shower in the morning it turned into a beautiful spring day.
You can see from this piccie what a bright sunny afternoon it became.
Welcome to the Queenstown cemetery which was in use from 1860 until 1981.Most of the 380 recorded graves were from the gold-rush and pioneer era.
Showing the standards of the time there are believed to be a significant number of unrecorded and unmarked graves of Chinese gold miners. Evidence of most graves including the recorded ones has vanished, destroyed by a bushfire in 1962.
My intention was to make a record of the graves and cemetery (I love cemetaries).
But I was quickly distracted. Because spring means wildflowers.
There were hundreds, many of which I have never seen before. Remember I have only lived in Victoria for a few years and Oz has an incredibly regionally diverse flora.
Just two of the beauties I captured were a Spotted Sun Orchid (Thelymitra merranae)
And a close up.
Isn’t it exquisite?A white Hyacinth Orchid (I think)
I’m not sure of the species, more research is in order.Speaking of research I posted this piccie of a cute bird, but didn’t know what it was.
It turns out s/he is a White-browed Scrubwren (Sericornis frontalis).Thanks for the reminder Amanda
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