NS Branch Golly Walk – June 2020 It was great to be able to recommence our monthly Golly Walks with a bracing walk at Ocean Reef that was good for our physical and mental well-being. The downside was, we were there to view the bushland and limestone cliffs that are ...
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26 AUGUST 2020 An excellent turnout of 15 members and three visitors, who found us on Meetup, were greeted by Christine, Chris and Danielle from the Friends of Inglewood Triangle. Danielle explained how the triangle of bush was saved by accident when the Mt Lawley Golf Club who owned the ...
Read more →The Northern Suburbs Branch used the occasion of its annual January Barbecue and Social event to unveil a memorial to life member, Alex Saar, who passed away in March 2019. Alex joined the Club’s Young Nats in the early-mid 1950s and after graduating to adult membership in 1959, remained a ...
Read more →The Northern Suburbs Branch held its AGM on the 18th December. Prior to the AGM Don Poynton (Branch Chairperson) donned a Santa Claus hat and conducted a short quiz based on the scientific or common names of WA flora and fauna that were in some way related to Christmas. The ...
Read more →Deceased member of the Naturalists’ Bushwalking Group, Katsu Young, made a generous bequest to the Bushwalking Group in 2017. With Katsu’s blessing, part of the bequest was to be used to create a memorial to Alan Notley (1928-2016), who founded the Bushwalking Group more than forty years ago. The Old ...
Read more →October GOLLY Walk ‘Two for the price of one’ Due to a ‘senior’s moment’ I planned our Golly Walk in Thaxter Park, Landsdale a month too early! Consequently, the mass showing of Christmas Morrison (Verticordia nitens) was nowhere to be seen. Nevertheless, our short walk through the park did reveal ...
Read more →October NSB Meeting Report Our October meeting gave members an opportunity to learn about three very different places that fellow members had recently visited for very different reasons. Cuba: Johanna Notley The lure of travelling to Cuba was set by a guest speaker Johanna had heard a couple of years ...
Read more →GOLLY, thirteen might be unlucky for some, but for the thirteen members and visitors who joined us at Allen Park Bushland, Swanbourne it was just the opposite. We were very fortunate to have passionate and skilful guides, Joan and Rob Sharpe, as our leaders. Both are long time members of ...
Read more →September 2019 Presenter Hazel Dempster has made an outstanding contribution to the knowledge of Australian plants, in a voluntary capacity during her membership of the Wildflower Society of WA for over 40 years. She is an Honorary Life Member of that Society. Hazel is also a voluntary associate consultant with ...
Read more →August Northern Suburbs Branch The unseasonably hot weather forecast did not stop a very pleasing turnout of 16 members and visitors (at least three of whom had seen it on Meetup, including a recent arrival from Wales) from visiting Marangaroo Conservation Reserve—all of them I think for the first time. ...
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