A good turnout of 10 members met at the car park at the southern end of Lake Claremont on 24th October 2017, a partly cloudy but pleasant morning. After a brief introduction to the lake from Bob Goodale we set out along the walking path on the south-eastern side ...

   Hort’s Duck Orchid, C. Prickett On a morning that started out mainly sunny with a threat of showers later, seven members joined hosts Bob and Lynette Goodale for our September 24 visit to Goodale Sanctuary. We commenced with a walk to the main lake, which had water levels as ...

A good-sized audience of members and visitors gathered for our September meeting: Caspian Terns as a Sentinel Species for the Southern Metropolitan Coastal Waters presented by Dr Nic Dunlop. Caspian Terns (Hydroprogne caspia) inhabit coastal and inland waters in sub-tropical and temperate regions around the world. In south-western Australia, Caspian ...

With many members away and others with other commitments there were only four attendees for our August 27 excursion at Gooralong Park in Jarrahdale, which turned out to be a beautiful morning. Our visit coincided with a walk along the Kitty’s Gorge Trail organised by the Jarrahdale Heritage Society, so ...

A small group gathered for the August meeting. It commenced with Acting Chair Colin Prickett sharing the outcomes of the meeting of Branch Chairs that had taken place on the previous Saturday. Colin then had the pleasure of presenting the perpetual trophy for Naturalist of the Year to this year’s ...

Due to several members being away, it was a small group of members that attended the anniversary breakfast at the Rockingham Golf Club. Those that did attend were served a hearty breakfast and enjoyed views out over the fairways towards the woodlands surrounding Lake Cooloongup. A pair of Wood Ducks ...

At our July meeting we had two presenters. The first was Chris Punter, who showed some photographs taken during the recent (May) camp stay at Cue (see report in the August newsletter.) There were a few photos of the areas visited during the stay, including two showing KRMB members on ...

At the beginning of the year when planning our calendar of events, this June 24-25th weekend visit to Goodale Sanctuary was envisaged to be primarily focused around fungi. However, the dry start to Perth’s winter has resulted in conditions being far from ideal for fungi. With quite a few members ...

Over the four days of this excursion, 11 members and two guests came and went at various times to enjoy the delights of Dairy Wells, five kilometres from Cue. Some camped, others caravanned and the remainder slept in vehicles. The weather remained dry; in fact the weather had been dry ...

Our June meeting saw us return to Naragebup for the evening, where guest speaker Pauline Whitehead delivered a talk on Reptiles. The reason for the venue change was so that Pauline could give us a hands-on experience using the reptiles from the exhibit at Naragebup. The first exhibit she showed ...