Northern Suburbs Branch, 27 August 2025 Our best turnout for the year. Seventeen members and visitors attended our walk led by Dr Mark Brundrett, one of the founding members of the Friends of Warwick Bushland more than 20 years ago. Mark chose the recently revamped Jarrah Trail, one of several ...

Northern Suburbs Branch, 23 July 2025 Golly, we were lucky! Just a light sprinkle of rain as we neared the car park – and they had forecast thunderstorms. Lake Gnangara is the most southerly of the Wanneroo wetlands. The surrounding terrain consists of low dunes and undulating sand plains of the Bassendean ...

Northern Suburbs Branch, 25 June 2025 Golly, it was cold this morning! A comment was made by everyone arriving at Donelly Park, Wanneroo, the meeting point for our walk around the northeast corner of Lake Joondalup, part of Yellagonga Regional Park. The temperature in Perth when most people left home ...

Northern Suburbs Branch, 21 May 2025 Jeremy Wilson is the newly appointed Curator of Arachnids and Myriapods at the WA Museum. Jeremy started his presentation by showing a slide of the three groups in the order Araneae. The suborder Opisthothelae comprises two families: the Araneomorphae, which have more advanced spinnerets, ...

Northern Suburbs Branch, 23 May 2025 We joined the Friends of Star Swamp for a night walk on a calm and clear 90-minute stroll around Star Swamp. Early heavy rain had left that wonderful bush smell. Approximately 25 people from both groups enjoyed the outing, and many conversations were held ...

Northern Suburbs Branch, 23 April 2025. Much to our relief, the BOM radar showed that the forecasted heavy rain had passed by the time seven of us climbed the stairs to the lookout from which we had views seaward, across Marmion Marine Park and landward, across the foreshore reserve which ...

  Northern Suburbs Branch, 15 April 2025 There is plenty of information around for those that think they maybe affected. That’s what I thought anyway. A conversation with our branch treasurer about DPIRD and the local council visiting her garden a couple of times to investigate, made me aware of ...

Northern Suburbs Branch, 26 March 2025 The Wanneroo and District Branch, now the Northern Suburbs Branch (NSB), held its first excursion on Sunday, 31 March 1985. It was to Neil Hawkins Park on the western side of Lake Joondalup. As part of its 40th anniversary celebrations, 13 NSB members and ...

Northern Suburbs Branch, 18 March 2025 The Northern Suburbs Branch is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, and their 18th March meeting marked 40 years since the branch held its first meeting in 1985. Almost on the same date, on March 19, 1985, 40 members (a good size even for ...

Northern Suburbs Branch, 18 February 2025 About a dozen members attended our Greet and Eat meeting to start the year. For the first time in many years, the temperature wasn’t in the high thirties. The cooler weather was ideal for our walk around part of Star Swamp and was appreciated ...