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. ...
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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 ...
Read more →Eleven of us spent almost two hours, in perfect weather, wandering around Careniup Swamp Reserve looking at the flora and fauna in its wetlands, large open spaces and urban forests. Inside the Secret Garden Photo: P Auty The land around the Careniup Swamp was originally part of ‘Swan Location K’, ...
Read more →MAY 20 – 24 On the first day, twenty of us met for a briefing by our leader Mike Gregson. We learned that Jonica Foss lived here until she was 13 years old. Her dad, John Currie, was Officer-in-Charge for 35 years and Jonica shared some interesting facts with us. ...
Read more →The speaker was member Desiree Heald, who presented photographs from a recent trip to Japan. Her trip was to the northern regions of Honshu, and she visited areas hardest hit by the earthquake and tsunami of 2011. The trip got off to a good start with a clear view of ...
Read more →What is “remote sensing” and how well do we understand this term? How does it work and why do we need remote sensing? As stated in many text books and other publications the term remote sensing is commonly used to describe the science—and technology—of identifying, observing, and measuring an object ...
Read more →Erika Roper treated a packed house to a well-illustrated, informative and entertaining talk on her study of Forest Red-tailed Black Cockatoos, work she is conducting for the degree of PhD at UWA. Much of the talk was focused on the spread of these cockatoos into Perth’s urban environments, where they ...
Read more →Our speaker was Hans Lambers, Professor of Plant Biology at the UWA School of Biological Sciences. Hans has worked in several European and Australian universities. His main interests are phosphorus nutrition in native plants, food crops and pasture plants, as well as mine-site rehabilitation. Hans began by reminding us that ...
Read more →Sixteen members and friends, mostly from the Meetup group, enjoyed a beautiful autumn day in Kings Park on April 7th. Rosser’s Banksia (Banksia rosserae) was in full bloom in the endangered garden. This arid land Banksia grows naturally south of Cue on Kirkalocka station, so it was a rare treat ...
Read more →Our April 28 outing was to the Alcoa Wellard Wetlands, near the intersection of Kwinana Freeway and Mundijong Road. A small group of seven members was boosted by the attendance of five visitors who had learned of the walk on Meetup; it was a beautiful autumn morning. The Wellard Wetlands ...
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