This post can be linked to my post of yesterday - Wednesday Walk - Through the Forest in Everton Conservancy.
In yesterday's post, I shared some forest views and sceneries. In today's post, I want to share some of the beautiful, colorful details that can be found along the trail in the forest.
As mentioned yesterday, we had rain the night before we walked this trail, walking through the forest in the Everton Conservancy, which is situated in the Upper Highway Area, west of Durban on the east coast of South Africa.
As you can see in my first photo today, everything was still wet and the freshness of the new morning was amazing!
On some of the greenery around us, the wetness from the previous night was still evident...almost like shiny diamonds...
Color was in abundance around us.
Tiny, but very prominent yellow flowers against a shiny background...
Passing by a fallen tree trunk, one would think it has served its purpose. Yet, it provides an opportunity for new colorful life and creates even more beauty in nature...
Passing through an open space where the sun was shining, I spotted something that didn't look exactly like the rest of the leaves around it...a "hairy" caterpillar that was patiently making its way to a new leaf.
Can you spot it (right in the center of the photo)?
Besides the frequent, friendly sounds of birds chirping in the forest, there were no other sounds to be heard. Yet, the forest has come alive...
Such as this strange-looking spider, who was ready for the day.
In my last photo for today, you can see another fallen tree trunk we came across that caught my attention.
I am by far not an expert on these things, so I searched online to see what I could find. The closest I could find (without knowing what I was looking for and having no name/description to enter), I found something that looked similar. It is a mushroom called "Turkey Tail". Although we are in South Africa, this post I found - Common Mushrooms That Grow on Trees - describes it as follows: "One of the most common mushrooms on trees in North America, and a popular mushroom mostly known for its "medicinal" benefits. Turkey tails are a decomposer of logs and stumps of deciduous trees, and on the rare occasion, coniferous trees. They're widely used as a medicinal in things like mushroom tinctures."
I'm not sure if it's the same, but they look very similar to me when I compare them to the ones in my photo...
And that's all for today folks.
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