YOUNG NATURALISTS with MAiN Club – 6 August 2023 The weather was ideal for this year’s beach sweep, but unfortunately, only two families turned up! There were piles of sea wrack on the beach – mainly seagrass – but the variety of finds was a little disappointing, and some things ...
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5 March 2023 – CLEAN-UP AUSTRALIA DAY This event was put in place to occur on the same day as Clean-up Australia day as it is a favourite snorkeling and hang-out spot for a lot of people. At 8.00am on Sunday the 5th we expected lovely weather for our visit ...
Read more →Young Naturalists, Main Club 24th July 2022 We were lucky to have fine, calm weather for a beach sweep at South Cottesloe, led by Maureen Gardner, Steve Lofthouse and me. A good crowd turned up, about half of them non-members and a number of children. There were piles of fresh ...
Read more →8 July 2022 Forty members and visitors gathered outside the Herdsman Lake Discovery Centre, feeling optimistic and ready to look for frogs around the lake’s edges. As it was still quite light, our leader and frog expert, Paul Doughty, spent a few moments describing some of the common frogs of ...
Read more →Sunday, 14 February 2021 The fine, warm weather for our postponed snorkelling event was in stark contrast to the rain which lead to the cancellation on the original date. By chance, the move from the 7th to the 14th brought the event closer to Darwin’s birthday, the 12th February. Eighteen ...
Read more →BEACH SWEEP 6 AUGUST 2020 The weather was not at all conducive to a beach excursion. However, eight people braved it, including four children, as well as our three leaders. The storm overnight had left piles of kelp and seagrass for us to fossick amongst. But with rain threatening, we ...
Read more →A small group of Nats Club members gathered on a clear but breezy Sunday morning to explore one of Perth’s most popular dive spots, the Omeo shipwreck in Coogee. The Omeo had quite a varied service history, serving as an iron steamship, a passenger and cargo carrier, transporting materials for ...
Read more →Young Nats and Main Club March Excursion A small but enthusiastic group of members came to the beach for snorkelling on Sunday 10 March. Initially the weather was grey and lowering but it fined up to a beautiful day with sunshine and 29°C. There are a lot of exposed rocks ...
Read more →Young Naturalists Excursion FebruaryAll photos M Martin A group of around seven Young Nats families celebrated Darwin Day on Sunday February 10th at Point Walter Reserve (Dyoondalup) on the Swan River. It was a very hot morning, and so after a short talk on the meaning and importance of Charles ...
Read more →Invitation to all Young Naturalists Club members New¦ The WA Museum invites YNC members to help us create a banksia mural which will be displayed in an exhibition in the New Museum for WA. Join us for a two-day program during the July school holidays where WA Museum scientists and ...
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