The lime green half-ball was an exciting find elsewhere. My first marker on the next section of my westward journey, looking back toward the starting position, which is no longer visible.
It's been a while since I marked this western, to-the-winter-solstice-sunset route. Only about a hundred and fifty metres as the crow flies from the starting point, but already across four watercourses, two on this occasion containing water due to recent rain. As observed previously, trees, particularly callitris, often seem to be in direct line with my desired route, which is both good and bad. 
A broken wattle tree, in direct line with my route (pleasing). When I first saw it, I thought it was a man-made item such as metal rods. But I didn't have my glasses on. The previous waypoint, a dead callitris sapling, can be seen below the apex of the triangle.
I continued past the fourth creek, up a slope, placing a few route markers and noting others points my route traversed.
Large tree directly in way (not photographed) then dead sapling white spots bottle neck (quote from my notes). The spotted sapling is quite distinctive, which is more than can be said for the bottle neck, which appears inconspicously in the top right hand side of this photo, threaded onto a fragile twig. Looking west.
The next route marker, craxed white ball in callitris near track (a public walking track near to my area of investigation)
The following two photos are place markers on this last section of the day's investigation. Firstly, at the place where I crossed the walking track, marked in a small wattle tree with a stone and bark. Secondly, at my last location, a fence marking the transition to private land.
At the walking track.
At the fence. I was pleased that the inaccessible part of the route appeared to be in line with the vehicle track.
However... checking my route with the help of the handy phone fitness app, it became clear that I had deviated in my usual way uphill, with one small deviation not far from the last creek, and a more serious one at the point where I crossed the walking track.
Interesting.
Watch out for the next exciting installment, when I sincerely hope to reach the winter solstice sunset point, because it's not so long until the spring equinox now.
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