I enjoy talking walks and often take a few pictures (just on my phone, nothing too ambitious) just to remind myself later of what I've been up to. Call it an insurance policy against memory loss.
Of late I find myself intrigued, some might say obsessed, with the moss, lichen and mushrooms I encounter along the way. While most are begrudgingly appreciative a few friends have suggested I expose* the results to a wider audience.
A recent trip to Tasmania has reaped a wide variety of examples so I thought perhaps this might be the opportunity to share the results with Bored Panda readers.
* sorry about the pun. Another bad habit with mixed levels of appreciation.
Seeing red
This mushroom was a brilliant red and really stood out in its surroundings. It was very small, maybe only 4cm high, but I think one of the finest results I've had. I've posted it first because I thought that's the image that becomes the one for the post (it's my first time)
Most of these mushrooms were found in the Lake St Clair area which is mostly temperate rainforest.
The mushrooms ranged in size from the very small like these tiny white ones on a tree trunk...
...to large ones like this also attached to tree trunks
Some don't even look like normal mushrooms
There were small tight clumps like these
and also large proliferations across a wide area
These ones were on a branch that I suspect had fallen off a tree recently and therefore likely grow up high. Again the translucent yellow color was amazing.
I don't actually know much, well anything at all, about the varieties of mushrooms here. That doesn't stop me appreciating their beauty.
Sometimes it's nice to be able to see underneath them. These ones were up high so it was possible.
These almost look like coral.
This, I assume, had become a meal for some critter or other and made for an interesting picture.
I'm still not 100% sure the colouring isn't just dirt, but even if it was it makes for an interesting contrast to the other almost pristine examples.
I got a little carried away with these ones
How could I not?
Another opportunist snacker had been there before me.
The colour, size and texture variations even within each type of mushroom was interesting
If the others were like coral these were more like mussels.
The one here were found in the Franklin Gordon Wild Rivers National Park
Can't say I ever saw blue mushrooms before these ones.
While walking in the Freycinet Peninsula I came across a mushroom growing in this hole of a fallen log.
And this odd spongy one clinging to a live tree.
More clusters of large mushrooms.
A more traditional mushroom found in the Tasman Peninsula, near Port Arthur.
Finally this amazing mushroom in the South West Wilderness World Heritage Area. It capped off (sorry) an amazing trip and even if you don't care for mushrooms Tasmania is a great place to visit.