Kwinana/Rockingham/Mandurah Branch The February meeting saw 13 members turn up for our first meeting of the year – a Members’ night. There were three presentations of photographs from trips made by various members to the Mid West, Gascoyne and Pilbara regions. First up were Bert and Ailsa Rabone who showed ...

Around 25 members, past KRMB members and visitors from other branches attended our Christmas get together for a BBQ lunch at Lake Richmond. It was good to once again meet up with Anne and Otto Mueller, Peter Wilmott, Roz Hart and Margaret Larke. Prior to settling down for lunch a ...

Field Trip 9th December 2012 to Penguin Island Six members met on a warm morning to catch the ferry over to Penguin Island. Our visit was timed to coincide with the annual influx of nesting Crested Terns and Bridled Terns. The Bridled Terns are present in large numbers on the ...

  Excursion Sunday 18th November 2012 to Rockingham Lakes Regional Park Lake Coolingup Nine of us met at 9:00am to walk some of the perimeter track.  Lake Coolingup is Aboriginal for The Place of the Children and nearby is the Children’s Forest. On Easter Sunday in 2009 there was an ...

Katinka works in Paganoni, Ludlow Forest and Yalgorup National Park on the methods of management and restoration of Tuart woodland ecosystems. Tuart woodlands are limited to coastal areas in the south west and have been considerably fragmented by clearing for agricultural land and suburban development. As well as these threats ...

The meeting began late as there were problems with the connection to the projector and so the group huddled together around the computer screen to see the presentations. Proceedings began by welcoming Bert Rabone back after a sudden, serious illness and he is now back on form. Sightings included a ...

On a warm and sunny morning three of our members met at Ellis Brook Valley (Banyowla Regional Park). Banyowla was a Nyoongar Elder at the time of colonial settlement and Captain T.T. Ellis was the Superintendent of the Mounted Police who were involved in the infamous Pinjarra Massacre of 1834. ...

 The presenter for the September general meeting was Dr. Norm Pinsky. About two years ago Norm showed us some photographs of his home in Nova Scotia, Canada. Unfortunately the projector settings went awry on that occasion and did not show the photographs in their true colour and such was the ...

Eight of us met at the car park at 9.00am above Bickley Brook on a pleasant dry Sunday morning.  There are good facilities such as BBQs, picnic furniture, parking and toilets, (where there were a lot of Potuguese caterpillars).  There were a lot of ants throughout the area and we ...

Trip to Dairy Wells, Cue from the 10th August 2012 From the 10th August for about a week seven of us spent varying amounts of time at Dairy Wells, a leased property near Cue, belonging to Rosalie and Geoffe Barritt..  Unfortunately flu and funerals depleted the numbers and shortened the ...