Annual General Meeting 16th November 2015 The November meeting was also the KRMB AGM. Our Chairperson Alan Bellman presented a summary of the year’s meetings and excursions and thanked all office bearers for their support during the year. The committee was re-elected without any changes. After the formalities of the ...

Seven members made the trip up to Wongan Hills for the weekend to explore the region’s nature reserves. The weather was overcast, fairly cool and windy but there was no rain. During the weekend we visited the Wongan Wildflower Walk and Christmas Rock Walk, both close to town, and we ...

  The topic for the August meeting was Wildflowers and the presenter was Anne Bellman. Anne outlined her introduction to wildflowers many years ago that evolved into her involvement as a volunteer on many vegetation surveys and at the WA Herbrarium. She is certainly one of KRMB’s gurus on WA ...

  A good turnout of 11 members made the trip to Herdsman Lake for the October field outing. Herdsman Lake is part of a chain of wetlands that once extended from north of Joondalup to south of Cockburn. Herdsman Lake is one of the few remaining water bodies in the ...

  The topic for the September meeting was Waterbird Conservation and the presenter was Ruth Clark of the Waterbird Conservation Group. Ruth commenced her talk by outlining the history of the Group, its formation coming about after an outbreak of botulism affected large numbers of water birds at Thomsons Lake ...

  The June field trip to Goodale Sanctuary was planned to be a weekend event, but the rain set in on Saturday evening and resulted in a change of plans for those that were to visit on the Sunday. There was a good turn out for the Saturday, with eight ...

  The topic for the June meeting was ‘Small is Beautiful’ and the presenter was Otto Mueller. Otto’s presentation started with a sequence of PowerPoint slides highlighting how microscopic life develops when water is left in an open bucket outside. At first the water is clear, then after a few ...

BRANCH General Meeting 18th May 2015 For the May meeting there were two presenters from within KRMB. First up was Pauline Dilley who presented a series of photographs and video footage taken on trips to Kalbarri, Albany, Zambia (Africa), the Whitsundays and at local areas such as Shoalwater Marine Park, ...

Twelve members attended our April field trip at Bibra Lake on a beautiful autumn morning. On first impressions there appeared to be plenty of water in the lake. But it soon became apparent that the water level was quite low. The giveaway was the presence of Black Winged Stilts out ...

  The topic for the April meeting was ‘Managing Our Natural Marine Assets’ and the guest speaker was Dr Kim Friedman, Principal Research Scientist (Monitoring) with the WA Marine Monitoring Program (Department of Parks and Wildlife). Dr Friedman commenced by stating that our coastal beaches and waters play a big ...