June KRM Branch Report Heavy rainfall during the preceding few days led to several members pulling out of this walk—and more overnight rain persuaded others to do the same, resulting in only three of us (Daniel Heald, Debbie James and myself) meeting at the car park off Albany Highway. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...