KRMBranch, 21 July 2024 The KRMB Anniversary breakfast event was again held at the Palm Beach Café on the Rockingham waterfront. A good turnout of 18 members attended and enjoyed the good quality meal choices and service available at the café. It was especially good to have Diana Hitchin (accompanied ...

KRM Branch, 15 July 2024 The July meeting saw a good turnout, a mix of members and visitors. The theme was a Members’ Night, and presentations by Daniel Heald and Colin Prickett were featured. First up was Daniel, who mentioned that while in New Zealand on holiday during the Christmas/New ...

Kwinana Rockingham Mandurah Branch, 23 June 2024 The June field excursion was to Paganoni Reserve, primarily focusing on Fungi. An excellent turnout of 34 members and guests met at the power line entrance as a fine drizzle started to fall, but it soon blew over, and the remainder of the ...

Kwinana Rockingham Mandurah Branch meeting, 17 June 2024 Daniel Heald was the speaker for our June meeting. He gave a presentation on fungi, discussing around 30 fungi to describe fungal diversity in the environment. Some estimates put the number of species of fungi in the 2.2 to 3.8 million range, ...

Kwinana Rockingham Mandurah Branch, 21 April 2024 The April field excursion was to Goegrup Lake on the Serpentine River at Greenfields in Mandurah. A small group of nine members met at the Riverside Gardens car park on a fine autumn morning for the walk. Many others were also enjoying the ...

Kwinana Rockingham Mandurah Branch, 26 May 2024 The May field excursion was to Lake Richmond, and a good turnout of ten members and three visitors met at the northwest corner of the lake on a fine morning. For the benefit of new members and the visitors, Colin gave a summary ...

MEMBER’S NIGHT – Kwinana Rockingham Mandurah Branch, 20 May 2024 Desiree Heald was the speaker for our May meeting. She shared photos of flora, fauna, and geological features taken during a long trip to Japan earlier this year. Her trip took her to many locations across Japan during the northern ...

Kwinana Rockingham Mandurah Branch, 15 APRIL 2024 The speaker for our March meeting was Andrew Marriot, who delivered a presentation entitled “Rockingham Underwater”. The level of interest in this topic was evident because 24 people attended the meeting, our best-attended meeting for many a year. Andrew has produced many e-books ...

Kwinana Rockingham Mandurah Branch, 24 March 2024 The March field excursion was to Creery Wetlands at the northern edge of the Peel-Harvey Estuary in Mandurah. Our group met at the car park near the main entrance on a fine morning. We were unsure what we might see in the reserve ...

KRM Branch, 18 March 2024 Our member, Daniel Heald, was the speaker for our March meeting. Daniel’s presentation covered fauna, flora, and natural aspects that he (along with Desiree) encountered on a short stay in the Canberra, Cooma, and Tumbarumba areas over Christmas, followed by a more extended trip exploring ...