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One of the millions of a single species of caterpillar in the area at the time the photographs were taken, this one can be seen demolishing a Senecio sp. flower.
Photo: Don Hitchcock
Senecio sp. flowers on which the caterpillars were feasting.
Photo: Don Hitchcock
Flowers of the Wilga tree.
Photo: Don Hitchcock
Cypress Pine seed cones, opened to release the seeds.
Photo: Don Hitchcock
Pea flower. There are many native peas in Australia, a large proportion of which are poisonous to stock.
Photo: Don Hitchcock
Ruby saltbush. The berries are edible, but the taste is never going to set the world on fire.
Photo: Don Hitchcock
Unidentified flower on a tree.
Photo: Don Hitchcock
Unidentified flower on a bush.
Photo: Don Hitchcock
A very hairy white flowered Eremophila sp. growing on the eastern side of the lunette on the tourist drive.
Photo: Don Hitchcock
The white flowered Eremophila sp. bush shown in close up above, growing on the eastern side of the lunette on the tourist drive.
Photo: Don Hitchcock
Photo: Don Hitchcock
A very hairy purple flowered Eremophila sp. growing on the eastern side of the lunette on the tourist drive.
Photo: Don Hitchcock
A very hairy purple flowered Eremophila sp. growing on the eastern side of the lunette on the tourist drive.
Photo: Don Hitchcock
A Eucalyptus - salt bush community on the eastern side of the lunette.
Photo: Don Hitchcock
A succulent flower on the eastern side of the lunette near Vigars Well.
Photo: Don Hitchcock
Lily.
Photo: Don Hitchcock
Lily.
Photo: Don Hitchcock
Field of Lilies.
Photo: Don Hitchcock
Botany Bay Greens. These were used by Captain Cook to combat scurvy when he landed in Australia. In contrast to most Australian native plants used for bush tucker, these are quite palatable without any special treatment.
Photo: Don Hitchcock
Cypress Pine on the shores of Lake Mungo
Photo: Don Hitchcock
Flowering spinifex
Photo: Don Hitchcock
Lichen on the ground beneath these mallees helps to keep the soil from blowing or washing away, even though there is little other ground cover.
Photo: Don Hitchcock
The environment here is dry enough to support the growth of spinifex grass beneath the eucalyptus trees.
Photo: Don Hitchcock
This area has been ripped in order to destroy rabbit warrens, and is now in the process of recovery. The natural vegetation has begun to recolonise the area.
Photo: Don Hitchcock
Two trees joined. Perhaps one is a sucker from the other, and the connecting root is now exposed by erosion of the sediments in which the trees grew originally.
Photo: Don Hitchcock
Nicotiana (an exotic weed of the tobacco family) being buried by mobile sand on the back of the walls of china lunette, the eastern lee side.
Photo: Don Hitchcock
Nicotiana flowers
Photo: Don Hitchcock