Hunting for a Winter Spider Orchid

When I find out that an orchid I've never seen is flowering and I'm going to be nearby it's quite reasonable to say I'll be on the hunt to find them.

This orchid doesn't grow around where I live and as I was traveling to the City to see family it was a good excuse to find out as much as I could about where it was, and how to get there.

Collecting a lovely gourmet picnic lunch from Glen Forrest Gourmet I set off across the hill to Toodyay. Not too far, but I did forget to fill up with fuel before I left, so had to keep an eye on the gauge!

I had good directions from friends where to find these little treasures and was soon pulling off the road onto the track as instructed, I only had to walk about 50m and there they were on the side of the track just like I'd been told. So tiny and difficult to spot amongst the leaf litter, but there they were and I must say I did a little happy dance and was very careful where I put my feet as I didn't want to stand on any of them.

Winter Spider Orchid

"Caladenia drummondii"

 Taken on my Olympus TG5

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