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 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 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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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 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
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
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