MARCH: WILDLIFE OF FORRESTDALE LAKE & ANSTEY ROAD BUSHLAND Our guest speaker Glen Gaikhorst was from the Friends of Forrestdale group. This Friends group has been together for over 30 years and was established from a small group of environmentally aware people, continuing as a small, active group today. Forrestdale ...

A small band of six members attended our excursion to Lake McLarty on November 26 last year. It is a freshwater lake and associated nature reserve located south of Mandurah, with an area of 219ha. It is an integral part of the Peel–Yalgorup System, one of the largest and most ...

The November meeting was also the AGM of KRMB. Minutes from the previous AGM were read. As all committee members were willing to continue in their roles there was no ballot. The Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer will continue in their present roles as will the committee members. The full committee ...

  The guest speaker for our October meeting was Otto Mueller and his topic was ‘Glimpses of something small’. Otto is an avid student of the insect world and likes to use his microscope to study aspects or organisms that are not clear to the naked eye. His talks are ...

  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 ...