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From hilltop at north end of Garie Beach, Royal National Park, coast south of Sydney. The brown shrubs are flowering male plants of Allocasuarina distyla. Female plants are plain olive-green. Also abundant is Banksia ericifolia. The purplish shale lower down the slope is one of the upper formations in the Permian Narrabeen Series sediments.