Wendy Bedggood
The first Saturday in November, 18 of us met at the Piccaninny car park. As rain had been predicted for weeks with none showing up, I had predicted this day would be the same, not so. A heavy shower came down just as we were about to set off so we all hopped in the cars till it passed. We set off, a fairly easy walk and managed to spot a couple of orchids and a few other wildflowers notably a cute duck orchid and the bronze Caladenia, I had hoped we may have found more in that far southern part of the Grampians, but like the rest of the area the plants were suffering from lack of rain. We did however find some very interesting yellow worms which at first we thought were the single strands of telecom wire, only they moved when we went to pick them up. We had a great view from the top looking out over Dunkeld and surrounding farmland. There was a light shower as we headed back down to the cars, it did stay fine while we ate our lunch and as we were packing up we got hailed on. Despite the rain we had a very enjoyable outing.