For a different kind of excursion, we booked a houseboat for a weekend to allow us to explore the Murray River and Peel Harvey Estuary. The weather forecast was for a sunny weekend as our group of 10 members arrived at the Ravenswood depot at 9.00am on Saturday October 26 ...
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Deceased member of the Naturalists’ Bushwalking Group, Katsu Young, made a generous bequest to the Bushwalking Group in 2017. With Katsu’s blessing, part of the bequest was to be used to create a memorial to Alan Notley (1928-2016), who founded the Bushwalking Group more than forty years ago. The Old ...
Read more →Our Club’s scientific journal is now available online, including the very first years’ issues. This will make data contained in the journal available to a much wider audience than ever before. The Biodiversity Heritage Library at Museums Victoria has now finished scanning all volumes of The Western Australian Naturalist, up ...
Read more →October GOLLY Walk ‘Two for the price of one’ Due to a ‘senior’s moment’ I planned our Golly Walk in Thaxter Park, Landsdale a month too early! Consequently, the mass showing of Christmas Morrison (Verticordia nitens) was nowhere to be seen. Nevertheless, our short walk through the park did reveal ...
Read more →Thirty Darling Range Branch members visited the areas around Kulin, Kondinin and Corrigin for four days in mid-October. Led by the energetic Kulin wildflower expert, Robin Campbell, we visited an impressive variety of places. Specific areas, such as the Corrigin Rifle Range, were ablaze with wildflowers including seven varieties of ...
Read more →KRMB October Meeting Rockingham Regional Environmental Centre (Naragebup) has recently regained accreditation as a Marine Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre with October’s presenter Pauline Whitehead and a band of volunteers on hand to provide aid to any young turtles washed ashore on local beaches. Her talk provided details of the ...
Read more →October NSB Meeting Report Our October meeting gave members an opportunity to learn about three very different places that fellow members had recently visited for very different reasons. Cuba: Johanna Notley The lure of travelling to Cuba was set by a guest speaker Johanna had heard a couple of years ...
Read more →DRB November Meeting Members of the Darling Range Branch and visitors were given a treat at the November meeting when 10-year old Poppy Greenacre gave the “Kids’ talk”. The Kids’ talk has been on our program for two years and involves our younger members giving a 5-minute talk on an ...
Read more →November Meeting Report Our speaker was Nerida Wilson, a research scientist at the WA Museum. As head of the museum’s Molecular Systematics Unit, Nerida’s interest is global biological diversity and resolving evolutionary relationships between taxa. Sea slugs are of special interest to her, and she has been on seven expeditions ...
Read more →September 2019 KRM Branch We had a total of 10 participants for KRMB’s visit to the Dryandra Woodlands, which commenced on Friday 20th due to the cottages only being available on the Friday and Saturday nights. The weather forecast was for fine but cool days and cold nights. A group ...
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