DRB Nats, 8 March 2024 Dr Thorn is a technical officer at the Western Australia Museum, where she manages the terrestrial vertebrate collection (birds, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians). She shared her love of vertebrate palaeontology with descriptions of early 1900s explorations and her own experiences in caves up and down ...
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Main Club, 1 March 2024 Our speaker was Emerson (Em) Lamond, an amateur bryologist. A bryologist studies bryophytes, which are mosses, liverworts, and hornworts. These are non-vascular plants, which means they have no roots or vascular tissue but instead absorb water and nutrients from the air through their surface. Because ...
Read more →Western Wanderer Expedition 15-Day Easy Camping Tour (assisted camping) – Departs Perth 15 May 2024 – Max of 12 participants Spend 14 nights travelling from Perth to Broome and discover Western Australia’s beautiful coastline and ancient Pilbara region. You will fly and land on the Abrolhos Islands, visit the HMAS ...
Read more →South Australian Outback and Channel Country 14-Day Camping Tour – Departs Adelaide 30 May 2024 – Max 10 participants (6 in lead vehicles & 4 tag-alongs) Join Tom Grove, owner and Director of Coates Wildlife Tours, for a true outback camping tour in South Australia. Leaving Adelaide, we will head ...
Read more →6 December 2023 Due to the unavailability of leaders, the November Golly Walk was postponed to the 6th of December. Ian Abbott and Don Poynton led ten members and one visitor through bushland and then along the coast to a surprise destination for refreshments. Our walk commenced with Ian leading ...
Read more →15 February 2024 Our leader Dr John Huisman, Author, and Herbarium Curator is known for his extensive work in taxonomic research into Western Australia’s marine flora. He gave a brief outline of the work undertaken at the site and the history of Western Australia (WA) as the first Herbarium in ...
Read more →20 December 2023 As usual, there was no speaker at the December Meeting of the Northern Suburbs Branch. Instead, the Annual General Meeting was held before our End-of-Year Photo Competition. Office Bearers for 2024 are: During his This Month Naturally segment, Don Poynton told us about the distribution, characteristics, and ...
Read more →2 February 2024 Our speaker was a well-known Perth botanist, Alex George, who has been a Club member since 1956. Some of Alex’s main interests have been the Orchids, the Verticordias, the Banksias, Dryandras and Synapheas, and the history of botanists in Western Australia. He has worked at the WA ...
Read more →The November meeting was the KRMB AGM. Our Chairperson, Colin Prickett, opened the meeting by welcoming everyone. He then read the minutes of the 2022 AGM and then summarised the branch’s activities for 2023. The Treasurer, Norman Aitken, then presented the financial report for the year to date. There was ...
Read more →South Australian Lake Eyre & Flinders Range Tour 10-Day Camping/Accommodated Tour – Departs Alice Springs 14 May 2024 – Max 10 participants (6 in lead vehicles & 4 tag-alongs) This adventure is a must for all who long to experience the Australian outback. From the massive expanse of Lake Eyre ...
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