NS BRANCH Excursion Report Our November GOLLY Walks—the last of the year—are always along the coast, usually combining a mix of paths and beaches. This year we started from last year’s finishing point, Hillarys Marina, and walked approximately 3km south to the old Department of Fisheries laboratories at Watermans. Prior ...
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NOVEMBER 2019 The meeting for November was also the AGM for the branch. Outgoing Chair Bert Rabone read the minutes of the previous AGM and also gave a brief summary of the branch’s activities for 2018. The election of the committee saw only one change with Bert Rabone standing down ...
Read more →The Northern Suburbs Branch held its AGM on the 19th December. Prior to the AGM, branch Chairperson Don Poynton gave a brief presentation on Christmas Spiders (Austracantha minax), which are endemic to Australia. They are the only members of their genus and belong to the orb-weaving family Araneidae. For some ...
Read more →DRB Report on November Workshop There are over 2000 species of native bees in Australia and at least 800 of them are in Western Australia, yet many people confuse our native bees with the introduced European honeybee (Apis mellifera). However, those attending Dr Terry Houston’s native bee workshop learnt to ...
Read more →– at the DRB Nats. Simon Nevill took us on a pictorial adventure tour of the five Western Deserts as his way of bringing nature photography to life at the DRB Nats December meeting. During 2018 he travelled alone for 15,000 km along the tracks of all five deserts: the ...
Read more →Main Club November Meeting Our speaker, Mikael Siversson, is the head of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the WA Museum. He manages the Palaeontology collection of 1.5 million specimens at the museum, which contains for example: stromatolites from the Pilbara, fish from Gogo in the Kimberley and ...
Read more →KRMB General MeetingPhotos: C Prickett Unfortunately, during the week before the October meeting, the scheduled guest speaker advised us that he would be unable to attend. To fill the gap, Colin Prickett presented some photos. He started with a series of images taken at Lark Hill, which was to be ...
Read more →KRMB October Excursion The outing to the Lark Hill Reserve, between Port Kennedy and Secret Harbour, was on October 21. The reserve is located in an area known as the Becher Plain, which has been formed through the accumulation of Holocene sediments over a period of around 7000 years. The ...
Read more →Northern Suburbs Branch October ExcursionAll Photos: D Poynton unless shown otherwise The NSB’s visit to the WA Reptile Park at Henley Brook was arranged as a follow up to Gane Doyle Jnr’s very entertaining presentation, Reptiles, Up Close, at the branch’s July meeting. So it was very disappointing to have ...
Read more →Northern Suburbs Branch¦November Meeting Our guest speaker, Melanie (Mel) Turner is Dive Co-ordinator for the WA Underwater Explorers’ Club. She dives at least twice a week, including regularly in the Swan River at night. Mel first experienced the wonders of night diving about 10 years ago while holidaying in Bali. ...
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