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
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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 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!
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 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
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.
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
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
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 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 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
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