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
Which Year of Newsletters would you
like to visit?
January/February 2012
World Wetlands Day Walk Feb 2; Official opening
of Bandicoot Heaven; Weeding Day Feb 5; Planting Day Feb 16
4:30pm followed by General Meeting Feb 16 7pm; Weeding on oval
Nov 2011;Third Cemetery; Dampiera Stricta
Signpost near arch
March
2012
Signpost at Blue Fish Rd to North Head Sanctuary; Xanthorrhoea
seedlings; Climate Watch Walk Mar 4; Planting Day Mar 11; Childcare
Centre comments due; Fire in 1936; Third Cemetery - Alice Lawler;
Themeda australis
Echidna on North Head
April 2012
Weeding day 16th April; Caf� at North Fort to
open 5th April; Eco awards for Mary Johnsen and Peter Nash;
Climate Watch walks; Echidna; Fires on North Head in 1931; 3rd
Cemetery - Richard W. Smith, Aseroe rubra.
Is it oil?
May 2012
Speaker - May 19 - Insects; bandicoot tracking;
climate watch; 3rd Cemetery C.W.Smart; North Fort; Is it oil
on the water?; Cassytha species
Bubonic plague victim
June
2012
Funding for new research project; Author talk
at Manly Art Gallery; Acacia suaveolens; Farewell from
one of our volunteers; Planting Day in June; Walls of North
Head; Third Cemetery - William James Harden
Nursery group farewell
July 2012
AGM 7pm Aug 14; Memberships due; Spring Wildflower
Walks; North Head Sanctuary Champions; Childcare Centre; Acacia
myrtifolia; Climate Watch Walks; Third Cemetery - Joseph
Franklin Jun; Farewell Sue
James Miller Wilson
August 2012
AGM - speaker Fran Bodkin; Spring bushwalks;
Patersonia sericea; a day in the life of a volunteer;
Third Cemetery - James Miller Wilson, aged 7; volunteer to help
with bandicoots; History 1933-5 - North Head designated as a
wildflower garden but then needed for defence
Duck family
on hanging swamp
September 2012
Spring walks; Leucopogon ericoides; duck
family on hanging swamp; The Bad Old Days; New commitee; Third
Cemetery - John O'Neill; 1898 construction of sewer pipes and
pathway from Manly to Shelly Beach.
Controlled burn
October
2012
Hazard reduction burns; whale watching; Hibbertia
diffusa; Third Cemetery - Francis Jackson; research taking
place after the burns
Spring walk
November 2012
10yr celebration; Splendour of Spring; planting on the oval;
Aunty Fran talk available online; North Fort Memorial dedication;
Ocean Care Day; Blue Fish burn revelation; Calochilus;
Third Cemetery - Chinese burial; echidna
10 year
celebration
December
2012
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