The November meeting was the KRMB AGM. Our Chairperson, Colin Prickett, opened the meeting by welcoming everyone. He then read the minutes of the 2022 AGM and then summarised the branch’s activities for 2023. The Treasurer, Norman Aitken, then presented the financial report for the year to date. There was ...

Kwinana Rockingham Mandurah Branch, 22 October 2023 The Field Excursion for October was to the Stacy’s Loop Walk trail at Jarrahdale. This walking trail can either be taken as the lead into the longer Kitty’s Gorge trail or as a shorter loop trail. Reviewing the information board at the start ...

KWINANA/ROCKINGHAM/MANDURAH BRANCH 16 OCTOBER 2023 The speaker at the September meeting was Jasmine Lyons, who delivered a presentation entitled ‘Christmas Island’. Jasmine, a member of the Underwater Explorers Club, is an avid SCUBA and Free Diver and has previously been a guest speaker on two occasions, discussing the local underwater ...

KRM Branch,18 September 2023 The speaker at the September meeting was Daniel Heald, who delivered a presentation entitled ‘A Madness Most Discrete – Gall Biodiversity’. Daniel explained that galls are the lumps found on branches or leaves of trees or shrubs and that there is an enormous variety. He then ...

KRM Branch, 29 September – October 2023 Thirteen members, plus two visitors, were present for the weekend stay at Dryandra Woodlands and assembled at the Lions Village on Friday afternoon. After a members’ get-together, we all went for a short night walk near the Lions Village. A possum with a ...

Kwinana Rockingham Mandurah Branch 21 August 2023 The August meeting was a Members’ Night, with three members delivering presentations. First up was Norm Aitken, who showed some images plus a video, taken in Scotland, of a Hummingbird Hawk Moth rapidly flying between flowers to get nectar. The video highlighted the ...

Kwinana Rockingham Mandurah Branch, 27 August 2023 Eleven members attended the excursion to Karnup Nature Reserve on a fine late winter’s morning. We headed off along the Don Shepherd Nature Walk, named after one of the founding members of KRMB. Just inside the gate, we spotted Cockies’ Tongues (Templetonia retusa) ...

A total of 13 members/past members met at the Palm Beach Café on the Rockingham Foreshore to celebrate the 43rd anniversary of the founding of the KRM Branch. We were blessed with a beautiful sunny morning and were thrilled to see a few Australasian Gannets gliding overhead the end of ...

The July meeting was a members’ night with three members delivering presentations. Pauline Dilley discussed her recent cruise in the Kimberley region, backed up with photographs. Daniel Heald showed a series of images of species sighted during the June weekend invertebrate survey at the Field Station on Cooleenup Island in ...

KRM Branch Field Outing, 25 June 2023 The June field excursion was to Paganoni Reserve, and a great turnout of 22 members and visitors met at the car park for fungi walk. It was great to see so many people interested in fungi, especially the young children excited at the ...