June Meeting Report. DRB Nats What an evening! The venue was packed to the rafters! One hundred and seventeen people attended with a record number of eighty four members, such was the popularity of the speakers and the topic.Our main presenters were horticulturist Mark Tucek, from Tucker Bush™ , and ...
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June Excursion DRB Report Forty-three people joined the Carmel walk in Korung National Park in spite of the cold, wet winter weather on June 30th. It was a great event for seeing plants, flowers and fungi in such a small area, encircled by a track of around 2.5 km. We ...
Read more →There were three presenters for the members’ night. First was Heather Adamson, who presented a series of photographs taken while crossing the Nullarbor that she entitled “Hope you like Saltbush”. The title was the response she received while mentioning that she was about to drive across to Adelaide. However, her ...
Read more →June: NS Branch Meeting Report Although our speaker Dr Tony Start was introduced to mistletoes as a child in Kenya, it was his move to the Pilbara in WA as regional superintendent of national parks that rekindled his interest. Knowing the area was prone to wildfires and that mistletoes don’t ...
Read more →Golly! Our planned circular walk around the Big Carine Swamp with a side visit to the historic Briggs’ lime kiln certainly didn’t go to plan! Firstly we couldn’t find the underpass beneath Reid Highway, then we couldn’t find the kiln site and to top it off it began to rain—so ...
Read more →June KRM Branch Report Heavy rainfall during the preceding few days led to several members pulling out of this walk—and more overnight rain persuaded others to do the same, resulting in only three of us (Daniel Heald, Debbie James and myself) meeting at the car park off Albany Highway. The ...
Read more →June 23: Bush Walking Group Report A note to all the wimps who were too scared to leave their front doors for fear of getting a bit wet: you sure missed a wonderful day! The bush was sparkling in the sun with the previous night’s rain—so green and peaceful. The ...
Read more →JULY meeting of Main Club Our speaker was Elaine Davison, a long-time member of our Club. Dr Davison is Adjunct Professor in the School of Molecular and Life Sciences at Curtin University and a research associate at the WA Herbarium. She has worked in South Australia and the UK and ...
Read more →The day of May 26 started fresh and cold, promising to warm up around the time we would be setting of for a walk through John Forrest National Park, 24 km east of Perth. This park was the first named National Park of Western Australia, and the second in Australia. ...
Read more →The May 26 excursion to the Armadale Reptile Centre attracted a good turnout of 11 members and two visitors (the latter via the Meetup site) to attend on a pleasant, sunny morning. We made our way inside where we met one of the owners, Klaas Gaikhorst, who kindly took the ...
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