Field Trip 31st August 2013 – 1st September 2013 The August field trip saw a return to Goodale Sanctuary on Saturday 31st August. KRMB members were joined by a few members from the Main Club for the opportunity to spend a day or two as guests of Bob and Lynette Goodale. The wet ...
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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 ...
Read more →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 ...
Read more →.. 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 ...
Read more →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 ...
Read more →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 ...
Read more →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 ...
Read more →Visit to the Armadale Reptile and Wildlife Centre. Ten KRMB members attended the visit to the Centre and were joined by Steve Page from the Main Club. Situated on South West Highway in Wungong the Centre boasts a fine range of Australian reptiles, mammals and birds. It is popular with ...
Read more →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 ...
Read more →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 ...
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