January 2023

In December, Peter Mitchell gave a fascinating talk on the geology of North Head. Click here for a summary of Peter's talk; Rabbits; Echidna; Young Adult Hospice on North Head; Platysace lanceolata, Third Cemetery - Plague victims

February 2023

Education Room; Plant Nursery; Defence of Sydney; Underground facilities in the tunnel system at North Head including a Casualty Ward: Third Cemetery - during the Plague, burials in graves numbered 97-100; Haemodorum planifolium

March 2023

Special General Meeting on March 18 to vote on changes to the constitution and the speaker will be John Dengate talking about Northern Beaches' Wildlife; Max Player has donated $10,000 to our organisation for nature conservation; Stage 1 of the Lookout upgrades is complete; A liking for lichens article; "Species at Risk" art exhibition at The Botanical Gardens Mar 18 - Apr 2;

April 2023

Thank you, John Dengate; Plants supplied by our volunteers for North Fort upgrade; Fleabane - a weed; Acacia terminalis; Aboriginal place names; Third Cemetery - plague victims in 1900

May 2023

Igloo cover replaced; Echidna; Processionary caterpillars; Ku-ring-gai Wildflower Garden walks; Third Cemetery - 1900 - bubonic plague deaths of William Hayden and Walter Haynes - both were in their early 20s.

June 2023

General Meeting June 17 at 2pm in Building 20 - Speaker: Wendy Grimm BSc, MPhil from Australian Plants Society with the topic being Orchids; Spiders often seen on North Head; Nursery Group volunteers; Remembering Rory Linsky who volunteered with our organisation; Third Cemetery - plague victims who died in Quarantine in 1900AD.

July 2023

Education Room and Nursery - volunteers invited to help on either of these activities; Back in time - 1900 when there was the plague in Sydney; New Lookouts at North Head together with revegetated surrounds; The demise of the Christmas Beetles; Third Cemetery - William Brown died from the Plague; Northern Beaches Council ‘Caring for our Bushland’ 2023 EcoAward winner - Jenny Wilson.

August 2023

Annual General Meeting - September 16, 2023 - at 2pm in Bandicoot Heaven; The speaker will be Dr Helen Smith, Technical Officer in the Arachnology section of the Australian Museum and her topic will be Spiders and their Silky Secrets; Volunteers plant specimens from our Nursery at North Head and pull out weeds; Spring Wildflower Walks; Open Day at the Quarantine Station - Sunday September 10, 2023; Pterostylis concinna; Whisky Grass - a weed; The Plague cases at Quarantine Station in 1900.

September 2023

Annual General Meeting - September 16, 2023 - at 2pm in Bandicoot Heaven; The speaker will be Dr Helen Smith, Technical Officer in the Arachnology section of the Australian Museum and her topic will be Spiders and their Silky Secrets; New volunteers needed; Spring Wildflower Walks; Open Day at the Quarantine Station - Sunday September 10, 2023; Philotheca buxifolia; Red Cross supported people returning from the First World War in 1919. Some died in Quarantine.

October 2023

New volunteers needed; Native Plant Nursery; Q-Station Open Day; North Head Sanctuary Master Plan - have your say; Thank you Dr Helen Smith for the fascinating talk about Spider Silk on Sept 16; Echidna seen in the sandstone wall; Back in Time - an article written in 1933; The Third Cemetery - the Bubonic Plague of 1900.

November 2023

Fire bans on North Head; Need for more volunteers in Bandicoot Heaven; repair of North Fort sandstone wall; Pythons on North Head; Third Cemetery - a death from bubonic plague in 1901.

December 2023

Thank you, Tom Hazell for the wonderful Nov 27 talk on Birds of Manly Lagoon; New volunteers needed; Farewell to volunteer Katie Meyer who has contributed to our display area and has provided environmental information to visitors over many years; survey of native plants; James Griffen, MP - speech to parliament recognising the contribution of NHSF volunteers over the years - especially Jenny Wilson who writes these newsletters; article from Sydney Morning Herald, from March 1901; Death in 1901 from plague of James Ernest Derrington.
10 year celebration of North Head Sanctuary Foundation; Ocean Care Day; My North Head by Janet Fish; Third Cemetery - World War I returnees; Billardia scandens