Canna Lily next to the Woy Woy to Gosford Cycleway. Perennially popular garden plants these and I only just found out what they're called. Quick, aren't I?
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In the foreground you can see the trees still not fully recovered from the Boxing Day 2006 bushfires. Normally they're back on their feet in no time but they've had fuck-all rain since then, what with the drought and all.
Stretching across the background you've got the Tasman Sea (visible through the tree on the left) and the Bouddi Peninsula.
The Bouddi contains, in order from Maitland Bay (Tasman Sea side) round to Hardys (Brisbane Water side):
The Bouddi (Bouddi National Park, from Macmasters Beach to Box Head)
Killcare Heights
Gerrin Point
Putty Beach
Killcare
Tallow Beach & Little Tallow Beach
Box Head (at the mouth of Broken Bay)
Iron Ladder Beach
Lobster Beach
Half Tide Rocks
Wagstaffe
Pretty Beach
Hardys Bay
From the right, between Box Head and Blackwall Mountain, you've got Ettalong and The Excrescence (white blob), Blackwall Mountain, very faintly on its left The Rip Bridge, Daleys Point at the left end of the bridge, Rileys Island (uninhabited) in fron of Daleys, and between Rileys and the foreground, Bustling Downtown Woy Woy.
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From Kincumba Mountain coming into it on the far left and The Excrescence, that blot on the landscape, on the far right.
Similar view but more of Woy Woy and Pelican Island visible there in the middle distance on the left. Then it's up into the Kincumber Broadwater via Cockle Channel and, behind the Broadwater, the hills separating Kincumber (Brisbane Water side) from Macmasters Beach (Tasman Sea side).
Stakles Lookout is on the Woy Woy Road about 2.5 kays from the Phegans Bay turn-off. It's yer left if you're coming from Gosford. Keep an eye out because the traffic will be up your arse and you've got buckley's of doing a U-ey along there.
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I'm struck by the contrast between the two red flowers, both lillies, one tall and phallic, the other seemingly lower to the ground, open and inviting. Excellent photos.
Hadn't noticed but yer right :)
Thank yer. I'm more proud of that gymea one every time I see it. I've cracked the flower photo trick at last.
The gymea one is magnificent! If only they'd grow here in Blighty.
You will need:
1. Conditions similar to those of the interior of Car when left in a bitumen carpark for several hours on a summer day.
2. Impoverished soil with max drainage.
3. 2-6 metres clearance.
4. Flame-flower to simulate bushfire, after which and only after which it will flower.
If successful you will have grown and made flower the only Gymea Lily outside that big glass thingy at Kensington Gardens or wherever it was they grew the triffids.
Kew, dear. Kew Gardens.
I think I'll save myself the bother....
Thank yer.
But think of the gentleman callers you could lure! 'Come back to my place dear and I'll show you my Gymea.'
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