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.
Car-rang-gel Sanctuary on North Head, Sydney
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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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Boxing Day Yacht Race
January 2016
Boxing Day at North Head; My North Head by Alan Ventress; Christmas Bells on North Head; Native Plant Nursery; Third Cemetery - Alfred Eric Brown; Answer to mystery plant photo

Mystery radar
February 2016
General Meeting February 6; Native Plant Nursery volunteers working on the Oval; Congratulations to July Reizes - 25yrs service; Caustis flexuaosa; Clean Up Australia Day on March 6; Mystery posed Nov 2010 now solved; The Thistle Saga; Third Cemetery - Ferdinand Mercker - small pox
 
William Mills' headstone
March 2016
Clean Up North Head on March 6; Rain Gauge; Thistle Saga - part 2; Third Cemetery - Smallpox - William Mills and others in January 1887

Golden Orb Spider

April 2016
General Meeting May 11at 7pm - speaker Peter Mcinnis; Golden Orb Spider; Clean Up at North Head; Protection of North Head's native fauna; Scotch Thistle - part 3; Third Cemetery - Smallpox from The Preussen


Julie Nettleton
May 2016
Next meeting - May 11 at 7pm - speaker, Peter Macinnis; Native Plant nursery invitation for people to join in; Odours at North Head; Little wattlebird; Gold Medal for botanical art for Julie Nettleton; Survey mark at Collins Flat; Thistle Saga Part 4 and other weeds; Third Cemetery - The Preussen - Part 4
Bank planted 2013
Bank planted 2013

June 2016
Guringai Festival Walk; Frank Langham Burdett – his mark; Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub recommended to be listed as critically endangered; Second Cemetery; Third Cemetery - John Lindsay Christie; Miniature Range building; Venomous spiders - Part 1
Bird of Paradise Fly Tick
Bird of Paradise fly and a Tick

July 2016
Guringai Festival Walk; Venomous spiders - part 2; Bird of Paradise Fly, Ticks, Congratulations to Manly Environment Committee for 25 years service; Third Cemetery - Bubonic Plague

Red Back Spider
Red Back Spider
August 2016
First Cemetery; Barbarian of the bush - Tea-tree; Third Cemetery - Pte Walter McCroanan; Venemous spiders - part 3
Repairs
Repairing nursery
September 2016

Annual General Meeting - 2pm on 8th October - in Building 20; Nursery - break in and repairs; Boronia ledifolia; Spring Wildflower Walks; Manly Environment Centre celebrates 25yrs - Sept 25 1pm-4pm; Third Cemetery - another plague victim; High Rise buildings for North Head proposed in 1956; Venemous spiders - part 4
Rockfall
Rockfall Aug 2016
October 2016
Annual General Meeting - 2pm on 8th October - in Building 20; Rock fall on North Head; Water on North Head
Walk for women
Walk for women
November 2016
Ocean Care Day; Spring Wildflower walks report; Sydney International Walk for Women; Nursery Group; Whisky Grass; Third Cemetery - suicide of Peter Chervin; NO DOGS on North Head
Tawny Frogmouth
Tawny Frogmouth
December 2016
Education Room; New Brochure; Return of the Tawny Frogmouths; Native Plant Nursery;  Piece be with you; Third Cemetery - bubonic plague


Featured Flora and Fauna from the newsletters:

January 2016


Blandfordia nobilis Photo: Jenny Wilson
February 2016


Caustis flexuosa Photo: J. Wilson
March 2016 and April 2016
 Weed found on North Head

Scotch Thistle - Onopordum acanthium
Photo: Jenny Wilson
September 2016

Boronia ledifolia
Boronia ledifolia Photo J. Wilson
November 2016
 Weed found on North Head
Whisky Grass
Whisky Grass Photo J. Wilson

November 2011


Erythrorchis cassythoides  Photo: Jenny Wilson
 
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North Head Sanctuary Foundation, P.O.Box 506, Balgowlah, NSW 2093

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