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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Bushwalk
Guided walk
January/February 2017
Next meeting March 1 at 7pm will feature local residents; bushwalks led by NHSF for various groups; Native Plant Nursery progress; Rainfall monitoring on North Head; Third Cemetery - consumption claimed 2 lives in 1919; Making crystals an unusual way.
New bush regen site
New bush regeneration site
March 2017
March 1 Meeting 7pm in Building 20 - several walking and bush related videos; New bush regeration site; North Fort Road; The other obelisk; Missing headstone found!
 snake
Yellow-faced whip snake
April 2017
Cats and dogs - threats on North Head; Yellow-faced whip snake; Third Cemetery - more about Jean Baptiste Adonis; Stone masons at work repairing grave stones.
Austracantha minax
Austracantha minax spider

May 2017
Datura stramonium - nasty weed; Austracantha minax - a spider; Third Cemetery - Margaret Whitehead; John Baptist Adonis’ grave marker is now upright

Pygmy possum
Pygmy Possum
June 2017
General Meeting - 2pm June 10th in Building 20 - guest speaker, Helen Vickers; Nursery people work on the Oval; Walk and Talk - Sunday June 18; Eastern Pygmy Possums back on North Head; Strangled! - the demise of a seedling Eucalyptus camfieldii; Third Cemetery - deaths from smallpox in 1913.
Tawyny Frogmouth
Tawny Frogmouth
July 2017
Annual General Meeting - September 16 - 2pm in Building 20
Speaker Jennifer Anson - Topic Re-introductions on North Head;
Education Room; Finding a Tawny Frogmouth; Native Plant Nursery;
Third Cemetery - in pursuit of the missing headstones
Gym planting 1  Gym planting 2
2015           2017
Planted area near old gym

August 2017
Nursery group's planting outside the old gymnasium - March 2015 and now (July 2017); Spring Wildflower walks - September and October; Hazard reduction burns planned for North Head;  Third cemetery - Ellie George; Keeping count of people visiting North Head.

Bandicoot
Bandicoot

September 2017
Annual General Meeting at 2pm on September 16 - Guest speaker will be Jennifer Anson speaking about "Possums, rodents, bandicoots and dasyurids: Fauna Restoration at North Head Sanctuary"; Thank you Aunty Fran; Spring Wildflower walks; ESBS - changes to the list of species recognised to be endemic to this classification; Third Cemetery - Richard Perry died at North Head but was buried in the Necropolis at Rookwood Cemetery.
Pond
Pond area
October 2017
Thank you to Jennifer Anson for a fascinating talk; Cleanup of Pond area; Spring Wildflower walks; After a fire; Third Cemetery - path paved;
SS Atua and influenza
Spring Walk
Spring Wildflower Walk
November 2017
General Meeting November 25 2pm - speakers Vince and Julia Williams; Ocean Care Day - 3rd December; North Head Project - 8th Dec, 2017 to 18th Feb, 2018 - showcasing the work of 10 artists who are depicting aspects of North Head; North Head Discovery Day - Sun 21 January 2018, 10am – 4pm; more buses for North Head on Sundays and public holidays; Spring Wildflower Walks; airport for North Head?; Third Cemetery - Influenza
Army truck
Army truck
December 2017
North Head Discovery Day - January 21, 2018; Tears at North Fort; The naming of species; The UAV vegetation survey of North Head;  Third Cemetery - rum and innoculation


Featured Flora and Fauna from the newsletters:

May 2017-
 Weed found on North Head
Datura stramonium
Datura stramonium: Seed pod and flower Photo: J. Wilson
 September 2017  

Grevillea
Philotheca salsolifolia plus Grevillea speciosa Photo: J. Wilson
 October 2017

Kunzea capitata plus baeckia imbricata
Kunzea capitata plus Baeckia imbricata
Photo: J. Wilson
October 2012


Hibbertia diffusa  Photo: J. Wilson
 
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North Head Sanctuary Foundation, P.O.Box 506, Balgowlah, NSW 2093

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