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 ...

The September field trip was a return to “Wandoo Ridge”, a 450acre bush block owned by Dave Daniels and Libby Burgess. Libby and young son Andrew were our hosts as Dave was working away and unfortunately unable to join us. A total of 5 members made the trip. Driving west ...

Numbers for the Kwinana / Rockingham / Mandurah Branch September meeting were down due to many members being away on holidays. For those of us at the meeting Andrew Motherwell came prepared with a large number of plant specimens from his garden and nearby dunes (Andrew’s home is near Warnbro beach ...

  As is the tradition at this time of year, KRMB members held our annual get together to celebrate the anniversary of the founding of the branch. This year we met for breakfast at the Bodrum Bay Café in Safety Bay. A total of fourteen of us enjoyed a very ...