The nature of this event was that members dropped in at various times through the weekend so there was no coordinated activity. By the time this writer arrived mid way through Saturday afternoon the weather conditions were light rain and gusty wind. Nevertheless, we went for a walk to see ...

The September meeting was a Members’ night and featured photographic presentations by Colin Prickett and Daniel Heald. The first presentation was from Colin Prickett who showed a number of photographs taken during the recent KRMB outing to Sullivan Rock together with photographs of orchids, fungi and hairy caterpillars found in ...

The KRMB anniversary breakfast was held at the Rockingham Golf Club. Numbers were a bit down on recent years due to several members being away on vacation. We were delighted to be joined by foundation members Ann and Otto Mueller plus Peter Wilmott and ?? It was good to catch ...

The August outing was to Sullivan Rock, which is located south east of Jarrahdale in the Monadnocks National Park. Six members plus one visitor met at the picnic area on a beautiful winter morning and made our way across the Albany Highway to commence the walk up Sullivan Rock, one ...

The June field trip was to Baldivis Children’s Forest, a small reserve of 49 ha on Old Mandurah Road. The reserve features tuart woodland and the Conservation Category Wetland, Outridge Swamp. The reserve was previously part of an agricultural pasture block and has been restored to its current state through ...

Field Trip 4th May 2014 The May field trip was to Wellard Wetlands with a good turnout of 14 on an overcast morning. The area that is now the wetlands used to be treeless farmland until Alcoa commenced the extraction of clay in the 1980s for the purpose of lining ...

The April field trip was to Anstey Swamp Reserve in Karnup. The reserve is Bush Forever Site 379 and has an area of 270 ha. It is managed as part of Rockingham Lakes Regional Park. It is one of the Stakehill suite of wetlands. In terms of landform and soils ...

General Meeting 7th March The March meeting was a Members’ night. The first presentation was from Colin Prickett who showed a number of photographs of birds. The first few photos were taken during a holiday in Fiji and showed Bar tailed Godwits, Ruddy Turnstone, Common Sandpiper and Reef Heron on ...

Field Trip 9th March 2014  The March field trip was to Lake Clifton and a few spots on the Peel Harvey Estuary. The early cloud had cleared by the time the ten of us arrived at the car park near the Lake Clifton boardwalk resulting in beautiful sunny conditions.   ...

Kwinana/Rockingham/Mandurah Branch Field Trip 9th February 2014 The February excursion was to the AQWA aquarium at Hillary’s Boat Harbour. Eight members met up as the facility opened to view some of the state’s amazing marine fauna that would otherwise be out of sight to most of us. The walk through AQWA ...