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 ...

The topic was, in full: “Mobile Sand Dunes – Migration of Lime-sand Dunes on the Midwest Coast and their Impacts on the Infrastructure” and the speaker was Mike Freeman, a geologist with the WA Department of Mines and Petroleum. Mike provided details and results of a study into the migration ...

KRM Branch March Excursion Our March outing to Lake McLarty was a good follow-up to the presentation at our general meeting. A good turnout of 14 members and visitors met at the southern gate, which had kindly been opened by Bob Paterson (of the Friends of Lake McLarty) allowing us ...

KRM Branch March Meeting The speaker in March was Peter Muirden, a DBAC Hydrologist; he was accompanied by Bob Paterson from the Friends of Lake McLarty. Lake McLarty is an ephemeral wetland just to the east of the Peel Harvey Estuary. It has long been a significant site for waterbirds, ...

KRM Branch Excursion FebruaryAll photos C. Prickett The February field trip was a good follow-up to the February meeting’s topic of marine plants. A good turnout of 12 attendees met at the car park at the end of Woodman Point View (at the north-western end of Jervoise Bay). As we ...

KRM Branch February Meeting  The speaker for our first meeting of 2019 was KRMB member Daniel Heald who gave a talk, supported by photographs, on marine plants of the local area. He started with a brief summary of the structure of seaweeds—a general term that covers all forms of marine ...

DECEMBER 2019: CHRISTMAS LUNCH a KRM Branch Report There was a good turn-out of members for the Christmas lunch at Lake Richmond on December 16. It was especially good to catch up with some old friends that are no longer able to participate in our activities, such as Margaret Shepherd ...

December KRM Branch Excursion After our last two outings were rain affected the weather gods were finally with us for our outing to Penguin Island and 13 attendees met at the ticket kiosk on a warm sunny morning. Upon arrival on the island we spotted large numbers of Bridled Terns ...

November KRM Branch Excursion Report Coodanup Foreshore and Creery Wetlands are good locations to spot some of the thousands of migratory shorebirds that make the long trip from their Arctic breeding grounds to spend the southern summer feeding on the Peel-Harvey Estuary’s rich mudflats. Despite the threat of heavy rain ...

NOVEMBER 2019 The meeting for November was also the AGM for the branch. Outgoing Chair Bert Rabone read the minutes of the previous AGM and also gave a brief summary of the branch’s activities for 2018. The election of the committee saw only one change with Bert Rabone standing down ...