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 ...

Our May meeting was a Members’ Night. The first presenter was Bob Goodale. Bob and Lynette had recently returned from a trip to Botswana and Bob brought along a number of photographs taken during that trip. These covered a wide range of Africa’s wildlife and included shots of birds, iconic ...

KWINANA/ROCKINGHAM/MANDURAH BRANCH APRIL MEETING REPORT At the April meeting we viewed the documentary Houtman Abrolhos Islands—Wilderness Regained, which was produced by Bob and Ann Goodale in the early 1980s. For many of the audience this was the first time they had seen the film. Bob Goodale gave a brief introduction: ...

MARCH Excursion 2017 Our field outing on March 26 was a walk along the shore at the Point Peron Reserve in Rockingham. Not put off by a very windy, cool morning, certainly not the best of conditions for a walk around this coastal reserve, nine members plus one visitor (Brian) ...

MARCH Meeting 2017 A large audience of members and visitors turned out for our March meeting to listen to guest speaker Delphine Chabanne, a PhD Candidate at Murdoch University’s Cetacean Research Unit (MUCRU), who presented a talk on her PhD project. Delphine is conducting a comprehensive investigation into the ecology ...

Nine members of KRMB plus Lou Scampoli from the Main Club attended the excursion on February 26 to the Coodanup foreshore and Creery Wetlands within the Peel-Harvey Estuary. These locations are part of the extensive Peel-Yalgorup Ramsar Site and are an important feeding area for migratory shorebirds that depart their ...