Eight of us met at the car park at 9.00am above Bickley Brook on a pleasant dry Sunday morning. There are good facilities such as BBQs, picnic furniture, parking and toilets, (where there were a lot of Potuguese caterpillars). There were a lot of ants throughout the area and we ...
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Ten people thoroughly enjoyed the tour through the Environment Centre and the wetland west of the Centre. Under the wonderful guidance of Joan [from the Centre], we walked through the tall Sugar Gums [Eucalyptus cladocalyx], and Flooded Gums [E. rudis], west of the car park, to see the value of ...
Read more →Nineteen people shared the discoveries on the Sorrento Beach on Sunday 22nd July 2012. Although cloudy, with north-west winds, the weather was fine throughout. Using the hand-out sheet, the group walked three areas of dune plants, recording both the male and female plants of the Beach Spinifex [Spinifex longifolia], Westringia ...
Read more →Searching for fungi near log at Nanga Bushcamp Twenty one Naturalists converged on the area on Friday 15 June. The weather had been fairly wet for the previous week. Our journey down to Nanga through a swathe of toppled branches and damaged forest trees showed us just how severe the previous ...
Read more →Rebecca Hamilton, one of a team of rangers from DEC (the Department of Environment and Conservation) working in our local National Parks, presented us with a talk entitled ‘The Parks of the Hills and How We Range Them’. Rebecca introduced us to the eight parks in which she has responsibilities. ...
Read more →Trip to Dairy Wells, Cue from the 10th August 2012 From the 10th August for about a week seven of us spent varying amounts of time at Dairy Wells, a leased property near Cue, belonging to Rosalie and Geoffe Barritt.. Unfortunately flu and funerals depleted the numbers and shortened the ...
Read more →The Margaret River Conservation Farming Club would like to thank Naturalists’ Club member who helped us re-establish our six pit-trap fauna survey lines at Glenbourne. This has laid the way for the resumption of our trapping on 12-14th October after some years of inaction. We have almost a decade of ...
Read more →Our annual breakfast was again held at the Rockingham Golf Club. The Club is next to the Rockingham Lakes Regional Park, Lake Cooloongup, which is looking very lush and healthy at the moment and kangaroos were grazing on the fairway. There were eighteen of us, including Ann and Otto Mueller ...
Read more →KRM Branch Meeting, 20 Jul 2012 The guest speaker for the July meeting was Dr. Nick Dunlop from the Conservation Council of Western Australia and the topic was Climate change responses in West Australian seabirds and microbats. It is generally accepted that climate change is occurring but what is not ...
Read more →Many ‘tricks of the trade’ were revealed to us when Gerhard Saueracker took us underwater and then to the wilds of Canada in his search for the perfect photo. Initially, Gerhard focussed on scuba photography and the wonders of the briny – and what wonders! Because of the poor lighting ...
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