A beautiful spring day, a packed lunch, a full tank of fuel, a map, off we go ........ oh mustn't forget, the mosquito spray, even though it's hardly worth it as they're in plague proportions where there are orchids.
It is easy to spend time searching for the beautiful orchids of the Great-Southern and South Coastal region of Western Australia, drive and stop at any area of bush, usually those marked Nature Reserves are good, and if there are mozzies you can be assured there are orchids. At one of the places we stopped there were so many mozzies we had to be very quick or get carried away.
Silky Blue Orchid - Cyanicula sericea
Rattle Beak Orchid - Lyperanthus serratus
King Spider Orchid - Caladenia pectinata
Terterden Yellow - Caladenia straminichila
Cowslip Orchid - Caladenia flava
Jug Orchid - Pterostylis recurva
Pink fairy - Caladenia latifolia
Spider orchid - Caladenia ??
White Spider Orchid - Caladenia longicuada 
Dragon orchid - Caladenia barbarossa
Donkey Orchid - Diuris ? 
Blood Spider Orchid - Caladenia filifera
Spider Orchid - Caladenia ??
Rabbit Orchid - Leptoceras menziesii
Joseph's Spider Orchid - Caladenia polychroma
Spider orchid ??I have named as many as I can, and hope they are correct, please contact me if you're able to id any, or if I have an incorrect id on any of them.
These were all found on a days outing from my home in Albany.
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