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
2013
Nursery news;
Tribute to Peter Caldwell; Echidna survey; Third Cemetery -
Madam de Sturler; Leptospermum juniperinum; Ocean Care
Day; Xanthorrhoea regrowth after fire.
Bandicoot
Heaven
February
2013
Native Plant
Nursery; Bandicoot Heaven - volunteering; North Head - Michael
Rolfe; Third Cemetery - Edmund Thurlow; Old Hoard of Sovereigns;
Regrowth after fire; Xanthorrhoea flowering
Cunningham's
skink
March
2013
Clean Up Australia; Welcome swallows; Climate Watch Walk; Cunningham's
Skink; bug eats spider; Scott Pentland - military heritage talk;
Third Cemetery - Ebenezer John Wakeham; Weed - Scotch Thistle
Toni and
Sue
April
2013
Four year celebration; Sue Halmagyi gets an award - well done,
Sue!; record of plantings - numbers and areas planted; Glycine
microphylla; Clean up Australia Day - a sterling effort;
Mary Johnsen nominated for an award for 15yrs service at North
Head; Education Centre needs helpers; Climate Watch walk
Wall soon
to be opened
May
2013
Next General
Meeting - May 18 Orchids; Aboriginal Heritage Walk - Jun 22;
Climate Watch Walk - Jun 2; Echidna watch; New walk soon to
Fairfax Lookout; Xanthosia pilosa; Breakout from Quarantine;
Third Cemetery - Thomas Robinson
Wall now
open
June
2013
Thank you;
The effects of fire; AWC missing from North Head; Back in Time;
New Walk now that the wall is now open; Native Plant Nursery
Igloo is now functional; Third Cemetery - bubonic plague;
Scizaea
dichotoma
Sue with
volunteers
July
2013
Tribute to Sue Halmagyi - celebrating her contributions to North
Head over the last few years.
The photo is of Robyn, Sue, Toni and Janet who were planting
out seedlings in the Nursery at the time the photo was taken.
Even two weeks before Sue passed away, she was tackling a new
project - see photo to the right.
Railways
on North Head
August
2013
Annual General
Meeting; Nursery watering system; ESBS revegetation trial: QS
Open Day; Parsonsia straminea; Springs on North Head;
Railways on North Head; Stony Range Open Day
Sundew
September
2013
Spring wildflower
walks; AGM report; Nursery igloo up and running; International
Fleet review; Caladenia carnea; Odours on North Head;
Sundew; Third Cemetery - the Antillian.
Additions
to Nursery
October
2013
Spring walks;
Additions to the Nursery: Burchardia umbellata; Navy Fleet Review;
Odour investigation at North Head; Smallpox in Manly in 1888
and Dr Watkins fined for negligence
Julie Nettleton
November
2013
NHSF general
meeting; Ocean Care Day;Three new walking tracks; Julie Nettleton
wins international recognition; Vale Michael Rolfe; Rulingia
hermanifolia;Leaves; Spring Wildflower Walks Research studies following
fire on North Head
Building
229 collapsed
December
2013
Storm damage to Building 229: The Igloo for North
Head Sanctuary Foundation Nursery: comparison of 2010 and 2013
opposite Bandicoot Heaven; Stylidium lineare:Third Cemetery
- Alice or Agnes Blendell?: the wreck of the ketch, Emma Matilda