Little Cove Walk

*

Walking in Little Cove
Pre Moonbootitis...

One day I named this glade-
which really is just a pretty section
of footpath,
Bromeliad Lane

and the name has stuck,
you can rest assured
that when the Bromeliads flower again
I will be showing them to you
in all their glory...

Meanwhile I have found another
Powder Puff for you,
another Calliandra

but this time
looking semi circular in shape

The basket fern
Drynaria Rigidula
is often found under eucalyptus
in the rainforest margins

see how the older dried leaves
form a basket at the base of the fern

Many of you will be familiar
with the poinsettia
as a colourful
Christmas pot plant

Here we have the poinsettia shrub

I learned from watching
this busy bush turkey
that turkeys are quite partial
to the fruit
of the pandanus tree

Turkey has a segment
of the fallen pineapple shaped
and sized fruit
and is tearing at with his beak






Turkey has been here...
Setting cement atop a wall
on our building site
bears the marks of the resident turkey
who resumes his occupancy
once the builders have left the site
for the day






I love the way
that flowering grass

can do this...
when huddled together

we are coming down
to the ocean now
past the purple weedy vine

with spiral whorled centre

and vibrant orange creeper,
the orange trumpet vine
a South American Native
Pyrostegia Venusta or flame vine

to the silver trunked gum tree
standing majestically
on the edge
of the great Pacific Ocean...



*