Photo Gallery
Tiny orange fungi making good use of dead material.
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 Grey fungus on karaka trunk.
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Fragile white fungus
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 A shell-shaped white gilled fugus.
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Excellent example of buttress roots of kahikatea trees in Smith's Bush.
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This year's kohekohe flowers.
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 Last year's kohekohe fruit.
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Beautiful, gleaming kohekohe leaves.
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A few items from the roomful of kauri gum at the Kauri Museum.
Fruit of the Indian Fig Tree.
Mangawhai from the Goldschmidt Track
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One of the many lifelike figures at the Kauri Museum.
The ridged trunk of the Pseudopanax ferox.
The Italian Renaissance Garden at Hamilton Gardens
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John made a friend on the water taxi to Kawau Island!
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Weka on Kawau.
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Looking through the trees on Kawau.
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A family of gannets, with parents and young, the latter still in juvenile colours.
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Two adult gannets having a difference of opinion.
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Cabbage tree in flower on Motutapu.
Spotted thrush full of the joys of life: Te Atatu Peninsula walkway, August 2015.
Birdwatching at Miranda
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Praemi and Marilyn on Motutapu.
Treefern canopy
A great day at Goat Island
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Blechnum Novae-zelandiae: young fronds showing red colour for sun protection
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Auckland City Walk in the Cascades, Waitakeres.
Waterfall on the Beverley Price Track, Puhoi.
Earthstar, Geastrum, fungi.
Bridal Veil Falls near Raglan
Wheki pongas in Whirinaki Forest.
Starfish on Snells Beach
Te Henga Walkway on a good day
We were being watched
Kitekite Falls,Waitakeres
Wheki-ponga - Whirinaki Forest Park
At Awataha Marae on the North Shore
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Oyster catchers at Omaha.
Ready for off, Pohuehue Reserve carpark.
Maurice leading over the new Waikino Memorial Suspension Bridge in the Karangahake Gorge.
A bit of fun - Rugby World Cup artwork on Brick Bay Sculpture Trail
Entoloma hochstetterii in Pureora Forest - thanks, Charles!
Karangahake Gorge - old gold mining tunnels
Coral fungus
Jelly fungi (Tremella)
Start, Muriwai - Bethells walk
Kauri fern (Schizaea dichotoma)
Tips of kauri fern, in close-up
Pied shags along Haruru Falls Track, near Waitangi
Young Monoao tree in the Waitakeres
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Dianella nigra, (blue berry, or ink berry)
The view looking over the Pohuehue Waterfall.
Waihi Beach
Karangahake Gorge
Kereru spotted in the Waitakeres
Puhinui Reserve
Tree daisy (Olearia arborescens)
Dot enjoying the boat ride, Bay of Islands, Easter 2010
Tauhinu bush along Coman's Track, Waitakeres
White rata
An example of Terry Stringer's work at Zealandia Sculpture Park
Rangitoto Island near the wharf.
View over Kaipara Harbour from Mt. Auckland
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An informative talk at Miranda Shorebird Centre
