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
2015
Native Plant Nursery; Education Room; Angophora hispida;
Ocean Care Day; North Head Long Nosed Bandicoots; Third Cemetery
- Vincent Heaton; Sandstone obelisks
WW1 gun
being restored
February/March
2015
Jim Frecklington talks about restoration of WW1 gun; Native
Plant Nursery; Revegetation after fire; Third Cemetery - James
Ernest Derrington; Xyris gracilis
Jumping Spider
April
2015
Meeting May 20 - speaker David Jenkins, whale
spotter; North Head plant labels; new plantings; congratulations
to award recipients; Bandicoot update; Clean Up Australia; Spider
webs; Pittosporum revolutum; Third Cemetery - James McNair,
Alice and Adelaide Forshaw
Termite
(white ant)
May
2015 Whale Watching talk on May 20; The Usefulness
of White Ants (termites); Aerial photographs - then and now;
Gleichenia
microphylla; Third Cemetery - The
Duchess of Argyle
Opening
visitor centre
June
2015
Whale Watching
presentation; Publication of Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub research
papers; Opening of SHFT visitor centre at North Fort; Third
Cemetery - Java Fever; When was the Obelisk built?; Hibbertia
fasciculata; Forgotten engravings on North Head.
Snail shellsl
July
2015
Next Meeting July 29 Staff of Waste Water Treatment Plant
will talk about odour;The
"John Barry" and the mystery of when the Obelisk
was built; Spirals in nature; Third Cemetery - measles from
on board the "Energia".
Antechinus
stuartii
August
2015 Spring
Walks; The Missing Antechinus holotype; Reporting wildlife
deaths; Spiral Shell project; Third Cemetery - 3 Cornelius
children
Costa Georgiadis
visit
September
2015 AGM September 12 at 2pm; Spring Walks; Q Station Community
Day; Nursery needs wire coat hangers; Gardening Australia's
Costa Georgiadis visit - to be screened on Sept 19 on ABC at
6:30pm: Patersonia glabrata; Twining and twisting - flora
and fauna; Third Cemetery - Ah Yet from the Chinese Liner,
Taiyuan.
Dr Jennifer
Anson
October
2015
Spring Wildflower walks; Planting on the oval to provide cover
for bandicoots; Then and Now - planting in Feb 2013 compared
with the same bank in September 2015; Round the Twist - part
4; Second phase of introductions of Native bushrats to North
Head by Dr Jennifer Anson of The Australian Wildlife Conservancy;
Caesia parviflora
Surveying regeneration
November
2015 Invitation
to tour Waste Management Plant on Nov 14; Ocean Care Day on
Dec 6: North Head Sanctuary Foundation Nursery; Report on Spring
Wildflower walks; Plover Chicks are thriving near Bella Vista
Café; Cockroaches; Survey of after effects of measures
taken to reduce impact of rabbits after fire in Eastern Suburbs
Banksia Scrub areas.
Sand on
North Head
December
2015
Ocean Care
Day on Dec 6; Planting on the Oval; Cryptostylis subulata;
Magpie death; Soil changes on North Head over time; 1899 bushfire
on North Head; measles and scarlet fever at the Quarantine Station
in 1913; Mystery photo from North Head.