The format of the July meeting was a Members’ night. The first presenter was Colin Prickett and his theme was Fungi. Colin told the meeting that just because it is winter we should not put our cameras and macro lenses into hibernation, as there are lots of wonderful fungi to ...

.. The venue for the June field trip was Goodale Sanctuary. This was a combined trip with the Main Branch and so this report will not go into detail. However, there were a few points worth mentioning. Although June had been a bit dry up until this particular weekend, and ...

Our speaker for the June meeting was Bob Goodale who delivered a presentation on Goodale Sanctuary. Bob spoke on the same topic to the Main Branch in May and it was written up in the June newsletter. Consequently this report will not go into detail. Most of the audience was ...

Gooralong Park in Jarrahdale.  Four KRMB members made the trip to Jarrahdale for a walk in Gooralong Park. On a very pleasant morning we parked the car and set out through Jarrah Forest towards an area that had previously been open for camping. The camp facilities have now been closed ...

  KWINANA/ROCKINGHAM/MANDURAH BRANCH The format for the May general meeting was a Members’ Night. The first presentation was by Rosalie and Geoff Barritt who showed a series of photographs taken on their recent trip to China. The photos featured many of the better-known landmarks, such as the Great Wall, the ...

At the April meeting our guest presenter was Bill van der Pyl who showed us a selection of his bird photographs. Bill has lived in the Kwinana Rockingham area all his life having been born in Medina and lived in Baldivis and now Waikiki. Bill has a love of nature ...

At the March meeting our guest speaker was Peter Wilmot and his topic was “Lake Mealup on the road to recovery: an adaptive management approach to acid sulphate soils and typha invasion”. The presentation was co-authored by Heidi Bucktin of the Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) and was first ...

As a follow up to the presentation at the March general meeting, on Sunday 17th March ten KRMB members joined Peter Wilmot for a visit to Lake Mealup to view the results of the recovery project. For many of us this was our first visit to Lake Mealup so we had ...

Kwinana/Rockingham/Mandurah Branch Field trip to Tern Island On Sunday 17th February at 8am ten KRMB members gathered in the car park next to the yacht club, where the Safety Bay jetty used to be, for the February field trip, a beach walk at Tern Island nature reserve at Safety Bay. This nature ...