A sunny Tuesday at Gorge Wildlife Park - Neville

 My first outing with the U3AC Photo-shoot Group took me to Gorge Wildlife Park

 

Spring Mating Plumage and Monkey Magic on display - Vale

We had a wonderful sunny morning for the animals at Gorge Wildlife Park 

 

 

 

The other side of Mr. Peacock   

 

All my breakfast so stay away please

 

Breakfast in the sun 

 

An Australian male Bustard in full mating regalia 

 

Not Happy Jan!! 

 

Gorge Wildlife Park - Jan

 The second photo of the Spider Monkey perhaps shows how it got it's name....

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gorge Wildlife Park - November 2025 - Grant

 Gorge Wildlife Park

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spring native flowers in Wadmore Park - Vale

 In the last week of the term a few members of our photo-shoot group wandered through a local patch of native heathland photographing the flowers that were blooming, especially looking for orchids.

Dodonaea viscosa

right: Calytrix tetragona a fringe myrtle

Thelymitra antennifera

One of the sun orchids nicknamed "Rabbit Ears"

 Arthropodium milleflorum the pale vanilla lily

Left: Glossodia Major  The purple cockatoo orchid

Caladenia dilatata King Spider orchid

grasses and king spider orchids 

Orchids and wildflowers Wadmore Park - Grant

 

Orchids and other natives: Wadmore Park Beth