Mount Tomah is Australia's Mountain Garden, located 1000m above sea level in the northern Blue Mountains. We were over that way at the weekend so thought we should pay it a visit - it was a glorious sunny spring day (though the day before had been snow flurries!). Well, it was simply magical. A small wedding was taking place there that day (you can just make out the bridal party in one of the landscape pictures below) and the whole place was just alive with millions of spring flowers: Waratahs, Rhododendrons and even bluebells! There were some exotic plants there too, such as the beautiful 'magic flower' or 'sacred-flower-of-the-incas'. All around was the distinctive sound of the Whip-bird and Kookaburra in the trees as the odd lizard scuttled amongst the rocks. The air was fresh but the sun was warm. From a viewpoint in the Gondwana woodland we could see Sydney in the distance, a world away.
Anyone know what the insect is?! I'd say a cicada, but then that is the only large Australian insect I know that looks vaguely like that! I'm particularly pleased with that picture though.
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