Photo Friday: Fantastic fungus
December 12, 2008 by Caitlin
Filed under Places & Inspiration
Liffey Falls, Tasmania; March 2007
The spectacular orange fungus was growing from a log next to Liffey Falls, a rainforest area in northern Tasmania, Australia. I was on a family holiday – driving around Tasmania in a campervan with my grandmother, two aunts and cousin. The walk down from our campsite to Liffey Falls was one of the few hikes that my grandmother managed – it was about 40 minutes with steps. After that she mostly stuck to flat ground, such as the boardwalks at the alpine lakes and strolls along the beaches fossicking for shells. I’ve previously written about this holiday on my food blog The Gooseberry Fool.
Here is my cousin Rhia with our Grandma on the walk to Liffey Falls. And below is me at the waterfall.
Beautiful fungus! Who knew?
I can’t get over the fungus! It’s such an amazing color! The waterfall is beautiful, too.
That is beautiful! How nice to enjoy it with your cousin and grandmother!
What a gorgeous fungus! Lovely ladies out on their travels, too
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Go GRANDMA!!
Can you imagine what in nature, makes fungus that color? Very cool. (Go grandma!)
I love finding those funky fungii in the woods…your’s is a particularly nice one
That fungus looks like a living, breathing, thinking creature – amazing! And the color is awesome. I never saw anything like it before!
Gorgeous! this is one of the things I love about hiking in a new region… you never know what you’ll find!
Aren’t fungus fun? We saw some cool orange ones in Sweden this summer! Can’t wait to RV around Tasmania when our open ended world tour leads us to that continent! So nice to do it with family…lucky you!
Thanks for your comments everyone. Sorry there’s been a delay in approving some of the comments but I am on the road and internet access has been limited. – Caitlin