Titans Rock and Piano Flat

River that ran through the doc camp at piano flat


I checked out the two main beech forest walks at piano flats


An interesting gecko I found under under some rocks at 1100m


View from Titan Rocks of Waikaia forest


High into the alpine tussock there were still patches of snow


One of hundreds of tussock click beetles


Titans Rocks


There were all these strange rock shapes


I was lucky enough to see this rear ground beetle Mecodema chiltonii walking through the tussock


Some more unique rocks


Fiordland bubbled ground beetle

19 November 2010

For those of you that know me well you will know about my obsession with insects. At this time of year there is a certain species of jewel chafer beetle Stethaspis pulcher that can only be found in the Garvie Mountains for 4 weeks at this time of year. Being down this part of the country I couldnt resist going to this wicked spot in South Otago and having a look.