February 2018 Field Visit – Yanco

I don’t seem to be off to a good start with field visits in 2018.

After last month’s failure, I decided to try again to find Turkey Flat wetlands, near Yanco. Despite a dearth of signposting, I succeeded this time.

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January 2018 Field Visit – McCaughey’s Lagoon

Hi everyone, my apologies for getting this up several days late, thank you for patience.

For my first field visit of 2018 I decided to visit Turkey Flat near Yanco. I then proceeded to get myself all mixed up and ended up at McCaughey’s Lagoon instead.

Map showing relative positions of Turkey Flat and McCaugheys Lagoon
Hey, I was close.

 

It looked to be a nice little wetland-with-woodland area, and I could not get my brain to make sense of the actual map, which was oriented a different way to my mental map of the local area, so I decided to stay and check out McCaughey’s Lagoon instead, and try again for Turkey Flat another day.

McCaugheys Lagoon near Yanco
McCaughey’s Lagoon near Yanco

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