Feather on a sandstone rockshelf, Ku Ring Gai Chase National Park.

No idea what species of bird it’s from.

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A fragment of sandstone on a sandstone rockshelf in Ku Ring Gai Chase National Park. Minor movements in the loose rock from wind and rain have disrupted the weathering of the underlying rockshelf surface.

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Roots, desperately searching for water on the surface of a sandstone rockshelf in Ku Ring Gai Chase National Park.

I expect that these are tea-tree roots. The rockshelves would be an incredibly hostile environment - millimetres of sandy soil on top of the rock, and baking-hot conditions in the Australian summers.

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