SEANA Campout at Naracoorte 8 - 10 March 2008

Baileys Rocks and Rules Hole


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Saturday 8 March 2008
Leader: Rob Kriesl

There were several excursions to these areas. Highlights included

  • Green granite mounds and boulders
  • Varied vegetation associations.
  • The disputed border
  • Rules Hole
  • Baileys Rocks
  • Robertston's Cave. The first homes in the district used rock quarried from here.
  • Struan House. The house has over 40 rooms, and was built in 1875 from local limestone. The house is now owned by the Department of Primary Insustries.

Fauna and flora included:

Plants in flower
Box Mistletoe
Common Beard-heath  
Drooping Mistletoe
Ixodia
Silver Banksia
*Stinkwort

Fungi
Bracket Fungus
White Punk 		Plants not in flower  
Beaked Hakea
Black-anther Flax-lily
Cotton Fireweed
Narrow-leaf Wattle
Small Grass-tree
Sweet Bursaria
Wrinkled Hakea
Yellow Hakea

Spiders
Golden Orb Spider
Bent-leaf Spider 		Birds
Shelduck (30)
Crimson Rosella
Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
Long-billed Corella
Wedge-tailed Eagle (2)
Kestrel
Brown Falcon
Grey Fantail
Superb Fairy-wren
White-throated Treecreeper
Red Wattlebird
White-eared Honeyeater
Eastern Spinebill
Striated Pardalote
Spotted Pardalote
White-winged Chough
Currawong
Magpie
? Raven