Sydney Exponential

Tuesday, 28 September 2021

Exercise parks of Lockdown 2 - No.107: Hunt Reserve, Mt Colah

A pretty small one, this one. More of a picnic park really. But a very nice one.

More picnics!

This time it's Westleigh's Ruddock Park, which has probably never seen such picnicking popularity! But Gladys did tell us to go forth and picnic.

Sunday, 26 September 2021

It's often mistaken for a funnel-web spider, and it is indeed venomous, but not deadly. It's to be found all over our houses, usually in or around its big funnel-shaped or furry-sheet-shaped webs high on our walls. Funnel-web spiders tend to be low down, usually on the ground, and their homes are underground.

This one was behind the garden hose reel which I rudely removed the other day.

The black house spider also goes by the name of Badumna insignis.

Sunday, 19 September 2021

Picnic!

We're still supposed to be in lockdown, but Premier Gladys was determined to give us some new freedoms. This weekend it was all about picnics.

"You're allowed to have a picnic" said the good lady. And look what happened! The people clearly wanted their picnics. Enough of this exercise nonsense!

Here's the view in Wahroonga Park today.

Lockdown bushwalk #137: Galston's secret electric garden

It started as a conventional enough bushwalk along fire trails, starting at Galston, near the swim centre and Hayes Park.

Before long I was circumnavigating an amazing 16 Hectare paddock, buzzing with electricity, power pylons, transformers, switching machines.

Must be handling half of Sydney's electricity supply, and it's got a very low profile, and can't really be seen from any of the surrounding roads. Funny that!