Trail Log 1995-1997 - Lamar at Colorado State University

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1800's. Crimson rosellas. Lots of red wattle birds. Drove to Wentforth Falls and walked to overlook. New Holland honeyeater, up quite close. Returned to Blackheath and spent time in visitor center. Casuarina, she-oaks, long needle-like stems, green, resemble a jointed pine needle. The genus was split into three in 1982; most of the Australian species are now Allocasuarina. Called Casuarina because of the likeness of the drooping foliage to the feathers of the cassowary bird. Called she-oak because lumber is oak-like but inferior! Pteridium - fern is here The forests generally seem dry, though they call the forests in the drainage courses here rainforests. The ranger at the Visitor Centre says she sees lyrebirds frequently. Lunched at overlook at Govett's Leap. Drove to Mt. Victoria and then to Bell and turned back west, back through Blue Mountains. Still quite dry-looking woods. To Kurrajong, Richmond, Windsor, then back into the Sydney suburban area, to Hornsby and took National 1 north. Dense traffic. Night at Wong. Supper in an enormous shopping centre. July 6, Saturday. Left Wong and drove around through The Entrance, a narrow opening to Tuggerah Lake. Over a bridge here, on to Budgewoi, back to the freeway, regaining it at Morisset. North on National 1. Through gum forests, often quite dense rainforests, though often also drier and more opened up from cutting. Lots of cattle and pasture. No row cropping. Lunch at Visitor Center at Taree, in the Manning Valley. On north to Kempsey. Geo is the Australasian Geographic Magazine. The ocean here is called the Tasman Sea, as well as the South Pacific Ocean. On to Coffs Harbor, a coastal resort, then to Grafton, more inland, for the night. Pizza at Pizza Hut. Grafton celebrates its jacaranda trees. This is the Clarence Valley. Red cedar (a cypress?) seems to have once been a highly desired timber tree here. Littoral rainforest. Watered by the ocean filtered through sand. A few banana plantations toward the end of the day. July 7, Sunday. Drove north through sugarcane country. Often rather scenic landscape, rolling hills, with sugarcane on the flats. Also bananas. Sometimes considerable gum forests. Crossed into Queensland, and lunched at the much developed Gold Coast. Nice Norfolk Island Pines. Reached Brisbane and found the University of Queensland. Staying at Woman's College, a residence hall complex. July 8, Monday. At the Australasian Philosophy Conference The word "Australasian" includes Australia and New Zealand, but there is nothing Asian in the term. Dinner: Spaghetti in a café at a shopping centre adjacent to campus. July 9, Tuesday. Gave paper 11.00 a.m., to about 35 people. Val Plumwood and William Grey were there; he was William Godfrey-Smith. In the afternoon, rode a bus to downtown Brisbane, and walked around. Dinner at Woman's College.
July 10, Wednesday. Drove to Lamington National Park, and O'Reilly's Lodge. Drove back to south Brisbane, and down Route 1 to Oxenford and cut off there. Thence to Canungra and booked hotel at # 35! Drove up to O'Reilly's, a resort inside the Park. Narrow, winding road, and slow drive up. Lunched on hood of car in parking lot. Passed many grass trees on the way up. Xanthorrhoea preissii. Grass tree. Common black boy. Walked to Tree Tops. 6-8 brush turkeys on the walk. Wild but rather tame. Tree tops is a suspended walkway through high rainforest. Then to a botanical gardens. King parrots. Lots of crimson rosellas at a feeding station. Pied currawong. Took hike to Moran Falls, and joined a naturalist party on the way down. Interesting forest, lots of strangler figs. Ferns on much of the forest floor. Trees often have impressive buttresses. Jane though she caught cold here. staghorn - the epiphytic plant on the tall trees. On the drive back, about dusk, nine wallabies on the roadside. The first "kangaroos" we have seen. Watched them several minutes. Impressive. July 11. Thursday. Up at 5.00 a.m. to get off at 6.00 (still quite dark) and head for Brisbane airport. The drive went smoothly. We reached the airport about 8.00 a.m. and returned the car. Flight to Cairns. Clear day and nice flight. Arrived about 1.00 p.m. Found motel and spent the afternoon at the Visitor Centre working out tours. July 12, Friday. By ship to the Great Barrier Reef. Went by False Cape, then Cape Grafton, and to Fitzroy Island. Saw Green Island, but didn't take the trip to land there because it is under lots of reconstruction. On Fitzroy Island, we walked around. Sulfur-crested cockatoo. Walked with naturalist with lots of ethnobotany and folk medicine in the talk. Some vines grow up to one meter a day. Dead dog tree = Beach plum = ink. Beach almond. Pandanus, false pineapple tree, with a soccer ball sized fruit, and with roots like a tepee. Fish poison tree. Coral tree. Hibiscus, yellow, turns salmon color when it falls. Can grow to 4 meters a year. Used for rope fibers and threads. Coconuts were introduced. Papaya, locally called a paw-paw, introduced. Orange footed bush hen, makes mound outside tree. After the naturalist hike, we saw a Ulysses butterfly, with blue color, seen near the oyster research station. On to the Outer Reef, Moore Reef. Many of these fish can change their sex under various conditions in the course of their life. Reached the outer reef and a large pontoon anchored there. Lunch. Ride in semi-submersible boat. The coral is quite intricate. Staghorn coral, but not all that colorful. Colorful fish, some large swarms of small fish. No big fish seen. Parrot fish. Returned and went snorkeling off the pontoon. The water temperature is quite pleasant. Crown of Thorns starfish (COTS) outbreak. This is a coral eating starfish. It destroys an area, but there is a recovery after about twenty years. Many think this is a naturally occurring phenomenon. The starfish turns its stomach inside out to envelope the coral. July 13. Saturday. Drove north to Daintree River Ferry for a river cruise.
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Trail Log 1995-1997 Holmes Rolston,
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1995 January 4, 1995. Wednesday. Ad
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"Winnow" - the root is wind, vent,
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Worker's Directory. He gave me a co
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7 year. Leaving the hospital comple
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9 Bougainvillaea. Many kinds, all w
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11 Gerenuk - a very long necked ant
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13 I took a bird walk on my own, as
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15 francolins egret, unidentified e
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17 2 males, old males 3 females, wi
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19 somewhat better on the return tr
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21 mahogany trees wild fig trees ga
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Continuing, we crossed a long, flat
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25 50 zebras 1,000 zebras on one si
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27 impala giraffe and baby zebras c
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29 Robin chat stone chat northern d
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31 We drove back around in the lake
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33 small park. Jane Goodall's resea
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35 July 6. Thursday, continued. Met
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37 July 10. Monday. Drove to Kruger
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39 The guides go first, Jan up fron
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Page 142 and 143: Back to the ranch. The coyote was a
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Russia has an 80-year old system of
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In the dining car, there never seem
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Reached Zilovo, about 10.15, about
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City tour on a nice day. Population
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second oldest 2,000,000 years. It h
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Communism unraveled, and that, we t
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Thalictrum foetidum Grimmia calcare
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Walk to Shaman Rock. From the rock,
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Viola rupestris Euphorbia alpina Pl
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Lychnis sibirica Schizonepetala mul
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wapiti, elk (American term), red de
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July 16-18, 1997, Tuesday through F
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Events in Ft. Collins area: July 28
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Camped at Sarto Creek, in flats nea
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Shuttle back to Missoula, arriving
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Polygonum viviparum, Alpine Bistort
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