Wilsons Creek Area …. west of Mullumbimby …. Northern NSW Track along the Lower Creek Area of old farm As at 27.12.01
Creek in shallow pools …. Slowly meandering around the black basalt outcrops of the creek bottom ….. clear rainforest creek water …… moving slowly with the lack of seasonal rain ……. The water is still by the creek bank …… .yellow - golden leaves float at stationary edges caught by a fallen dead limb ….. tussocky clumps of fine lomandra grass punctuate the emerging rocks and pools of still water ……. Gentle sounds of eddying water signals the aliveness of the creek. Forest: ….. on the top side of the creek, there is a gallery forest of cream - brown barked trunked watergums …… often in multiple trunks ……. Some 1000mm ….. some 500 mm thick ….. occasionally etched with a fine tracing of soft green moss on the south side of the tree …… a crown of finely divided lanceolate dark green leaves …… branchlets merging as a patchwork dark and open space …… .sunlit shafts of sunlight leave changing lightforms on the smooth trunks ……. Light cream versus shades of soft brown in the shadows ……. Small yellow flowers at leaflet ends ……. Roots splayed in twisting contorted shapes searching for underground moisture ….. the stand of water gum trunks punctuated by an assortment of other rainforest trees of different coloured trunks ….. one dark brown fibrous in ascending stripes ….. another ….. a smooth to pimply earth - brown bark in ascending rings ……. The gentle breeze lazes through leaves and branches with a gentle rustling sound ….. an occasional squeak of overlapping limbs punctuates the stillness in gentle forest violin - like tones …… .further down the creek, trees are looped with 100 mm coils of lianas …… snakelike as they twist over tree branches. Threadbare Path : ….. follows a thin trail in the tan – brown fallen leaves …… leaves spill over on a section of cream - brown rounded creek gravel near the creek bank ….. further on short 300 mm high dark green rasp ferns edge the path in an encroaching quilt. Boulders: ….. occasional big grey – black basalt boulders of varying sizes punctuate the flat slope of the creek bank. ….. broken with rounded angles worn down by rolling along by floodwaters …… covered in patches of grey and dark blue green lichens ….. light green fine mosses in strings in one section …… green matts in other areas….. a small crowsnest fern clings to the vertical rock surface with wide-bladed fronds. Umbrella Ferns or Sticherus fern groves are in dense patches of gravel on the creek bank ……1.00 m high in thin multitudinous black stalked clumps ….. rising to overlapping fans of shiny green finely divided fronds. Fishbone Water Ferns ….. are scattered along the moist bank 500 mm in open whorls of light green fronds emerging from a small fibrous stem.
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Creek in shallow pools …. Slowly meandering around the black basalt outcrops of the creek bottom ….. clear rainforest creek water …… moving slowly with the lack of seasonal rain ……. The water is still by the creek bank …… .yellow - golden leaves float at stationary edges caught by a fallen dead limb ….. tussocky clumps of fine lomandra grass punctuate the emerging rocks and pools of still water ……. Gentle sounds of eddying water signals the aliveness of the creek. Forest: ….. on the top side of the creek, there is a gallery forest of cream - brown barked trunked watergums …… often in multiple trunks ……. Some 1000mm ….. some 500 mm thick ….. occasionally etched with a fine tracing of soft green moss on the south side of the tree …… a crown of finely divided lanceolate dark green leaves …… branchlets merging as a patchwork dark and open space …… .sunlit shafts of sunlight leave changing lightforms on the smooth trunks ……. Light cream versus shades of soft brown in the shadows ……. Small yellow flowers at leaflet ends ……. Roots splayed in twisting contorted shapes searching for underground moisture ….. the stand of water gum trunks punctuated by an assortment of other rainforest trees of different coloured trunks ….. one dark brown fibrous in ascending stripes ….. another ….. a smooth to pimply earth - brown bark in ascending rings ……. The gentle breeze lazes through leaves and branches with a gentle rustling sound ….. an occasional squeak of overlapping limbs punctuates the stillness in gentle forest violin - like tones …… .further down the creek, trees are looped with 100 mm coils of lianas …… snakelike as they twist over tree branches. Threadbare Path : ….. follows a thin trail in the tan – brown fallen leaves …… leaves spill over on a section of cream - brown rounded creek gravel near the creek bank ….. further on short 300 mm high dark green rasp ferns edge the path in an encroaching quilt. Boulders: ….. occasional big grey – black basalt boulders of varying sizes punctuate the flat slope of the creek bank. ….. broken with rounded angles worn down by rolling along by floodwaters …… covered in patches of grey and dark blue green lichens ….. light green fine mosses in strings in one section …… green matts in other areas….. a small crowsnest fern clings to the vertical rock surface with wide-bladed fronds. Umbrella Ferns or Sticherus fern groves are in dense patches of gravel on the creek bank ……1.00 m high in thin multitudinous black stalked clumps ….. rising to overlapping fans of shiny green finely divided fronds. Fishbone Water Ferns ….. are scattered along the moist bank 500 mm in open whorls of light green fronds emerging from a small fibrous stem.
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