Just a memory

Hidden treasure

Some sort of puff ball fungus. Will look up later.
North Island.
New Zealand.

Emergence

Two cute

Banks Peninsula.
South Island.
New Zealand.

A rusty leaf

Another foliose friend

Nina Valley. Forest floor.

South Island.

New Zealand.

Sea Tulip

Sea tulips are members of the Ascidiacea: "sea squirts".

This specimen was found washed up on Kaiteriti Spit. South Island.

New Zealand.

Beautiful bracket

A large bracket fungus growing on a tree trunk.

Nina Valley.

South Island.

New Zealand.

Possibly Fomes hemitephrus or something similar?

Cold as ice

It's going down to -3 degrees celsius tonight. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Chrysalis

This monarch butterfly chrysalis was found attached to a lavender bush!
The neighbouring swan plant was infested with aphids...perhaps this critter wanted some peace and quiet!

North Island.
New Zealand.

Wicked cool roots

Lifted up some loose bark on the forest floor and found these...

South Island.

New Zealand.

Secret 'shroom

Autumn.

North Island.

New Zealand.

Must try and identify...

Lovely limey lichen

A crustose lichen on bark.

Canterbury.

New Zealand.

Pretty in pink

Seaweed.

Canterbury.

New Zealand.

A cunning crane fly

Diptera: Tipulidae

South Island.

New Zealand.

A rather attractive foliose lichen

Nina Valley.

New Zealand.

Friendly bird; a'cute'ly curious

The New Zealand Robin.

Nina Valley.

New Zealand.

A holey rock

Motunau Beach.

North Canterbury.

NZ.

I wonder how it got its holes?

It's the circle of life...

A rather elegant looking rotting log.
Hamilton. NZ.