Fieldwork misadventures in Victoria's Central Highlands

11/4/2015

Holly, Matt, Julian and Wibi headed out to the tall wet forest of Victoria's Central Highlands this week.

They finished deploying remote cameras at sites established to better understand how biodiversity varies among patches of different time since fire, and where data are available, fire severity.

They avoided the heavy rain of Tuesday 7th but not the oncoming traffic. Highlights included blue mushrooms and a 20-cm worm. This sounds like the product of hallucinations but they've provided photographic evidence.

Please let us know if you can ID the mushrooms.

Blue mushrooms

Meeting the locals

20 cm was the distance between its eyes

Fire-side gatherings are perfect opportunities for checking your cameras function correctly

4 Comments

pete collins

10/4/2015 10:08:56 am

if that nissan got any further over it would be driving a la continent. i think the mushrooms are fungi so they would be blue fungi. wheres the photo of the worm!!

Holly Sitters

10/4/2015 11:46:25 am

Thanks Pete, that's a stride (of sorts) closer to a scientific name.

pete collins

10/4/2015 10:10:00 am

Sorry the worm picture just appeared big eyes

Holly Sitters

10/4/2015 11:47:34 am

Good, I hope it stays put. It was very wriggly, particularly when Julian poked it.

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