North Head Sanctuary Foundation
is working with Government agencies
towards the establishment of Car-rang-gel Sanctuary
on North Head
at the gateway of Sydney Harbour
- a flagship for Australia's
environmental resolve
and a celebration of
our natural and cultural heritage.
Newsletters: If you would like to receive North Head
Sanctuary Foundation newsletters via your email from now on, just
ask to be put on the mailing list by contacting:
northhead@fastmail.com.au
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like to visit?
January
2011
Planning meeting; planting; grant to study bandicoot habitats;
Ocean Care Day; Summerama at North Head; Sydney Harbour National
Park Plan of Management; Avenue of Honour; Hibbertia scandens;
Third Cemetery - George Braunton
Plants
next to the gym
February
2011
Planning
meeting;planting near the gym;Asparagus densiflorus; bandicoots
on the brink; Avenue of Honour; former St Patrick's Seminary;
Oplismenus aemulus; Third Cemetery - Edward Kelly
Norfolk
Pine
March
2011
Avenue of Honour loop - Norfolk Pine; Q-Station lecture series;
Mystery rock shelter; Third Cemetery - 241 people buried there;
Platysace lanceolata; progress with planting program;
Notes from North Head Sanctuary Foundation planning meeting
Scenic
Drive planting
April
2011
Bandicoots and Banksia Scrub;
Q-Station lectures; Walk and Talk by Peter McLaren; Third Cemetery
- Nursing Sister Elizabeth McGregor; Sydney NP Plan of Management;
Skeleton with typewriter; Planting along Scenic Drive; Platysace
linearifolia; News article from 1935
William
Menzies' grave
May
2011
NHSF general
meeting: Third Cemetery - William Campbell Menzies; rabbits
digging in bandicoot nesting area; bandicoot spotlighting;
Inspection of Artillery School in 1937;
Xanthorrhoea sp
Cane toad
June
2011
Third Cemetery
- John Madden; D'harawal talk; ESL students; Acacia ulicifolia;
Artillery School - "too good for soldiers"; dead cane
toad found on North Head
Bandicoot
foraging
July
2011
Bandicoots
on North Head; AGM, Environmental Conference on North Head;
Third Cemetery - J Maley; Botanical drawing exhibition; Education
Centre about to move; planting a new area; Monotoca elliptica
Rain damage
and flooding
Aug
2011
AGM 13 Aug
2pm Julie Nettleton will display her work; thank you volunteers
from the past year; International Conference 8-11 Sep; Fire
management by Aboriginal people; Conospermum longifolium;
Floods in Nursery and Education rooms; Third Cemetery - Edward
James Edney.
Building
20 before refit
September
2011
President Judy Lambert steps down; International conference;
Spring Wildflower Walks; Stony Range Fair; Refit of Building
20: Botanical artist chat; Lasiopetalum rufum; Fire on
North Head; Farewell Nelika .
George
Malakwen
October
2011
Congratulations - awards, new baby; Spring Wildflower
Walks; Report from conference; Speakers included George Malakwen;
Building 20 open; QS Open Day; Third Cemetery - suicide; "Bag
It" film; Climate Watch Walk; Olearia tomentosa
Cubs listening to Geoff Lambert
November
2011
"Orchids of North Head"
in
Education Room on November 12; New card designs; hundreds
of cubs on North Head; Plantings; Ocean Care Day Dec 4; Walks;
Third Cemetery - Thomas Dudley;
Erythrorchis cassythoides
Girl guides listening to Kathy Ridge
December 2011
Official opening of Bandicoot Heaven; Girl Guides
visit North Head; Ocean Care Day; Hakea dactyloides