March 2017 GOLLY WALK “GOLLY, we must be mad!” Although conditions and visibility were far from perfect five brave members jumped into the water at Mettam’s Pool on March 22 to conclude our beachcombing and planned snorkelling event. Their exit was almost as fast as their entry! Our preceding walk ...

MARCH Meeting 2017 Mike Freeman from the WA Department of Mines and Petroleum displayed his passion for geoscience education when he enlightened us about six of recognised impact structures in Western Australia. 15 of Australia’s 33 confirmed and probable impact structures are located in WA. Of these, only four are ...

Speaker David Knowles from ‘Spineless Wonders’ grabbed our attention immediately by questioning whether, as naturalists, we needed to recalibrate how we think about our local fauna. We spend a disproportionately large amount of time looking at mammals and birds, which only make up just over one percent of Western Australia’s ...

NSB July 2016 Golly Walk What I advertised as a 45-minute walk on July 27 ended up taking more than double that time, as we found numerous things to look at. Before the walk began Ann Clarke, co-ordinator of the Friends of Carnaby Reserve, outlined how community-led changes to the positioning ...

NSB Visit to Battye Library, 20 July 2016 The following are the notes provided by Steve Howell, Senior Subject Specialist at the Battye Library. Botanical Material Relating to WA William Dampier William Dampier (1651–1715) was an English navigator, explorer, privateer and writer. He had numerous swashbuckling adventures around Central and ...