The first meeting of 2005 saw another huge turnout with over 80 members and visitors attending. All watched and listened intently on what Quentin had to say about growing and caring for olives.

Quentin has a great deal of knowledge about everything bonsai and more.	Huge crowd squeezed into the hall.
Quentin's great raft style olive.	Quentin with another large olive.
It took two of them to move the tree.	Quentin explained how he dug this olive out and created the raft out of it.
Notes ready.	Quentin's dragon shaped fun olive.
He used his angle grinder to perform the initial shari work on the olive's hard wood.	Then used his die grinder for some more shari work.
He used the smaller dremel to do some minor work.	Close up of the concentration.
Another one of Quentin's dug up olives.	A monster Olive dug up from the Boort area.
Quentin uses lime sulphur mixed with indian ink to preserve the deadwood.	Using a brush to paint the lime sulphur on to the deadwood.
President Barry Woods having a word to all the members.	Size comparison.
Barry and Rob.	Lots of laughs at our club.
Ted and Michael stressed out about the return of the school year.	Favourites at BNW, Gerry, Barb and Steve.
Enjoying the biscuits after the meeting.	The always reliable Glenys who makes the whole club run smoothly.
The Boys Club.	Victor and Frank.
Lola always the centre of attention reading out raffle tickets.	Ian explaining some of the basics of bonsai.
Tony and his wife are raffle prize winners.	Vencel, Robert and David having a chat.
Recently dug up Olive.	Group of Bald Cypress.
Black Pines for Sale.	Angus McIntyre is selling advanced field grown black pines.

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