DARLING RANGE BRANCH APRIL EXCURSION REPORT This was a joint excursion with Friends of Jorgenson Park (FoJP) which is a very keen, but smallish, group of volunteers dedicated to restoring the one-time golf course to something like its original bushland status. Their ‘leader’ Joy explained to the 11 members and ...
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NORTHERN SUBURBS BRANCH April Golly Walk Report City skyline from northern shore of the lake (T Marwood) A perfect windless autumn morning, 24 bird species, some interesting invertebrates and an amphibian made our April GOLLY walk around the northern end of Herdsman Lake an enjoyable and rewarding excursion. Fifteen people ...
Read more →RETIRED & LEISURED GROUP APRIL MEETING REPORT Our April meeting was a talk by Tony Ahmat on Australia’s yellow diamonds, specifically the Ellendale diamond mine. Diamonds are the hardest naturally occurring substance and alluvial diamonds were known in Australia from 1851 and discovered in commercial quantities in 1895. The Ellendale ...
Read more →KWINANA/ROCKINGHAM/MANDURAH BRANCH APRIL MEETING REPORT At the April meeting we viewed the documentary Houtman Abrolhos Islands—Wilderness Regained, which was produced by Bob and Ann Goodale in the early 1980s. For many of the audience this was the first time they had seen the film. Bob Goodale gave a brief introduction: ...
Read more →DARLING RANGE BRANCH MAY MEETING REPORT Members of DRB may have been forgiven in thinking that their May meeting was going to be a ‘flora-walk in the park’—Kalamunda National Park in fact—presented by Gooseberry Hill resident Ken Patterson. Perhaps they expected an evening of interesting observations of the flora and ...
Read more →NORTHERN SUBURBS April Meeting Report Amellia (Milly) Formby is a passionate shorebird conservationist with many and varied strings to her bow. She started academic life with a Visual Arts degree from Monash University and worked as a professional tapestry weaver at the Australian Tapestry Workshop in South Melbourne for seven ...
Read more →Main Club MARCH Meeting Report The speaker at the March meeting was Dr Jane Chambers, Academic Chair for Environmental Science and Environmental Management and Sustainability at Murdoch University. With over 30 years of experience in wetland research, management and restoration in WA and internationally, Jane has also served as Deputy ...
Read more →Club member Pam Ghirardi says she is delighted to now be opening the Gould League’s Herdsman Wildlife Centre on the first Sunday of every month from 1 to 4pm, beginning in June (which will be the 4th—on the long weekend). It is a wonderful place to explore, so she encourages ...
Read more →March 2017 The group visited the Travellers and Traders in the Indian Ocean exhibition at the museum, which tells the story of the voyages and people who travelled in the area over hundreds of years and of the objects which they carried—originating from many countries and often discovered in far ...
Read more →MARCH Excursion 2017 Our field outing on March 26 was a walk along the shore at the Point Peron Reserve in Rockingham. Not put off by a very windy, cool morning, certainly not the best of conditions for a walk around this coastal reserve, nine members plus one visitor (Brian) ...
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