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 ...

Our annual breakfast was again held at the Rockingham Golf Club.  The Club is next to the Rockingham Lakes Regional Park, Lake Cooloongup, which is looking very lush and healthy at the moment and kangaroos were grazing on the fairway. There were eighteen of us, including Ann and Otto Mueller ...

KRM Branch Meeting, 20 Jul 2012 The guest speaker for the July meeting was Dr. Nick Dunlop from the Conservation Council of Western Australia and the topic was Climate change responses in West Australian seabirds and microbats. It is generally accepted that climate change is occurring but what is not ...

The guest speaker for the June meeting was Dr. Brian Chambers from the University of Western Australia and the topic was Fauna Underpasses and the Brush-tailed Phascogale, a UWA Research Project. It has become common practice to install underpasses to help reconnect populations of fauna that have been fragmented by ...

The weekend started with the arrival of the first visitors, Margaret and Stan Telford, always the early birds.  People continued to come during the day and the last arrival turned up after dark.  The weather was very mixed with a lot of rain in the morning so some people cancelled.  ...

Our May meeting was a members’ night and we were pleased to have three visitors from the Main Branch come to visit us: John and Maureen Gardener and Margaret Larke. The evening started with a computer-projector problem so we had to make do with the laptop. Bob Goodale took the ...

        The May field trip was to Peel Zoo, located in Sanctuary Drive, Pinjarra (near the golf course). Eight members attended on a fine autumn morning. For most of us this was a first visit to this facility. Peel Zoo is a privately funded zoo and wildlife ...