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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Echidna
Visitor to Planted Area
January 2018
North Head Sanctuary Discovery Day; Celebrating 21years; North Head Project; ESBS redefined; next General Meeting Feb 24 will include a walk around our planted areas; Third Cemetery - pneumonic influenza;
Discovery Day
Discovery Day 2018
February 2018
General Meeting Feb 24 - walk around planted areas; North Head Sanctuary Discovery Day; FrogID; Weed - Anagallis arvensis or Scarlet Pimpernel; Bubonic Plague; North Head Project - art on display at Manly Art Gallery
 Horse sculpture
Horse Sculpture
March 2018
Information Room; Manly Flower Shows from the past; Nursery News; Snake bite in the 21st Century; Bronze Horse Scultpure; Third Cemetery - 100 years since soldiers arrived home from the First World War with influenza.
Phillip Jones
Phillip Jones

April 2018
Next general meeting - April 21 - Speaker, Phillip Jones; New walking track; Torres Strait Islander flag; The lungs of a plant;  Third Cemetery - getting permission to erect a tombstone; King George VII carriage?

Acacia terminalis
Acacia terminalis
May 2018
Replacing wooden benches in North Head Sanctuary nursery; Enjoying North Head in 1933; Threatened Species Children’s Art Competition 2018 from June 4 to August 3; Third Cemetery - stories of the plague in  April,1900.
New track
New track
June 2018
Recognising & celebrating Aboriginal culture; Whale Watching Season; New Track on North Head; Back in time; Julie Nettleton’s Triptych; Third Cemetery - deaths from the Makura.
Post burn
After the burn

July 2018
General Meeting, July 28, by Wendy Grimm entitled "Pollination – not just the realm of bees!”; Education Room - new display of wildlife; Thank you to Four Seasons Nursery; Wartime life at North Head; Hazard reduction burns on North Head; Third Cemetery - memorial wreaths in 1920
Grass trees after fire
Grass trees after fire

August 2018
Spring Wildflower Walks; Native Plant Nursery - Frog Pond area; After the burn - Grass Trees (Xanthorrhoeas) recovering; Back in time - the value placed on Zanthorrhoea resin; North Head - a special cultural place; Third Cemetery - baby died from measles; Stony Range Spring Festival

Boronia ledifolia
Boronia ledifolia

September 2018
Spring Wildflower Walks; Boronia ledifolia; After the burn is over ...; Native Plant Nursery; Back in time; Grass Tree gum; Stony Range Botanic Garden Spring Festival; Q-Station 10th Birthday Open Day; Third Cemetery - Italian reservists
After burn
After the 2018 burn

October 2018
Annual General Meeting - 2pm on Nov 10; Spring Wildflower Walks; Caledenia carnea; Botanical Survey of North Head; After the burn is over ...; Native Plant Nursery; News from the Fire Front; Citizen Science - call for ideas for small projects that could be attempted on North Head; Back in time - a person in quarantine "escaped" and went to the movies in Manly in June 1919.
Liverwort
Liverwort
November 2018
Annual General Meeting - 2pm on Nov 10; Northern Beaches Council Eco Awards; Triple J - new kid on the airwaves; Spring Wildflower Walks; Liverwort; Brush-turkey App; Third Cemetery - smallpox death in 1914
Brown Butterfly
Sword Grass Brown Butterfly
December 2018
Ocean Care Day; Native Plant Nursery; Insects of North Head (The Sword Grass Brown Butterfly, Tisiphone abeona, and the White Tussock Moth, Acyphas sp); Back in time - transfer of land; Third Cemetery - deaths from influenza; Committee for 2018 - 2019


Featured Flora and Fauna from the newsletters:

February 2018
 Weed found on North Head

Scarlet Pimpernel
Anagallis arvensis (Scarlet Pimpernel)
Photo: J. Wilson
February 2018

Banksia aemula
Banksia aemula Photo:
Jenny Wilson
March 2018

Lomandra longifolia
Lomandra longifolia destroyed in the nursery
 by an animal eating the white fleshy stem
April 2018

Tradiscantia albifora
Tradiscantia albifora or Wandering Jew
May 2018

Acacia terminalis ssp terminalis
Acacia terminalis ssp terminalis   Photo J. Wilson
June 2018
Triptych
Triptych
Flannel flowers (Actinotus helianthi)
• Grass Tree (Xanthorrhoea resinosa)
• Camfield’s Stringybark (Eucalyptus camfieldii)
September 2018


Kunzea capitata
Photo: Jenny WIlson
October 2018

 Caledenia carnea
Caledenia carnea (Pink Fingers)
Photo: Ian Evans
 
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