The September General Meeting was a Members’ Night attended by a dozen members. There were two presenters on the night. Chris Punter was first up and shared images from a recent trip to Exmouth. Photographs of various aspects of the landscape around Exmouth helped set the scene nicely for what ...

KRM Branch 21st August 2022 KRMB branch’s field outing for August was to Oakley Dam at Marrinup on the Darling Scarp above Alcoa’s Pinjarra Alumina Refinery. The dam was established to provide water for steam trains but is no longer used for that purpose. Surrounded by Jarrah Forest, the dam ...

KRM Branch, 15th August 2022 Our guest speaker for the August meeting was Jasmine Lyons, who delivered a presentation entitled ‘Shark Tales’. As a member of the Underwater Explorers Club, Jasmine is an experienced SCUBA and Free diver who has dived at many locations both within WA and overseas. Consequently, ...

KRM Branch 18th July 2022 The guest speaker for the July meeting was Tom Chvojka delivered a presentation entitled ‘Fuel Reduction Burning, Facts and Myths’. Tom is a musician and string instrument repairer who lives on a woodland property (that has not been burnt for 37 years) near Dunsborough. He ...

KRM Branch, 24TH July 2022 As is the tradition, KRMB members got together for a breakfast gathering to celebrate the anniversary of the founding of KRMB. The venue was the Palm Beach Café on the Rockingham foreshore looking out onto Cockburn Sound and Garden Island, and we were treated to ...

26 June 2022 For our field outing to Goodale Sanctuary, a great turnout of 14 joined our hosts, Bob and Lynnette Goodale, on a beautiful winter morning.  Goodale Sanctuary is a private conservation property of roughly 100 acres adjacent to Nine Mile Nature Reserve in West Coolup, southwest of Pinjarra. ...

20TH June 2022 The guest speaker for the June meeting was Jake Cherry, and his presentation was entitled Naragebup and the Intertidal Communities of Point Peron. Jake is a marine biologist who recently volunteered at Naragebup, the Rockingham Regional Environmental Centre. Jake started his presentation with a description of the ...

Kwinana, Rockingham Mandurah Branch, 22nd May 2022 A group of eight members attended our Field Outing at the Alcoa Wellard Wetlands. The weather gods were kind to us, providing a pleasant morning and holding off on the rainfall until later in the afternoon. The Wellard Wetlands are a series of ...

A report on three presentations by Ailsa, Daniel and Colin at the KRM Branch meeting in May.

Kwinana Rockingham Mandurah Branch, 27 March 2022 Ten members attended our Lake Richmond walk on a grey, windy morning. We commenced the walk near Lake St and Safety Bay Road intersection, walking around the Anne Mueller walk track. Even before we left the lawn area to get on the walking ...