Getting into nature, gets you into nature.

The easiest way to become environmentally sensitive is to get amongst nature. I always come back from a bushwalk feeling more enthusiastic than ever about saving what I have just seen. This weekend we took the kids and did a walk from Cowan down to Jerusalem bay in the Hawkesbury river (Ku-ring-gai Chase). The valley is steap, dark and has a phrehistoric feeling.

Here’s some Umbrella Ferns (Sticherus flabellatus) we saw on the section where the creek is not quite at sea level.  We have this fern growing naturally in our backyard thus my interest in this one. 

If you live in Sydney and want to know what plants are called that you see on bushwalks then get Les Robinson’s Field Guide to the Native Plants of Sydney. It just makes the experience richer when you learn a little about what you are looking at.