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 2020
Manly's 26th Ocean Care Day; Australia's memorial walk; Manly to
Bondi Walk; Australian Brush Turkey; Third Cemetery - cases of
plague
Indigenous dancers performing on North Head on January 26.
February 2020
General meeting, March 7 at 2pm - speaker Aunty Fran Bodkin;
Aboriginal use of Grevillea buxifolia; new botanical
greeting cards available in Building 20; Invasion Day
ceremony on North Head on January 26; Independent review of
Sydney Harbour Federation Trust; Rainfall statistics for North
Head; Third Cemetery - plague victims in 1900.
Caper White Butterfly
March 2020
General meeting, March 7 at 2pm - speaker Aunty Fran Bodkin;
Native Plant Nursery - plantings and overflowing frog pond
during the rain; North Head birdlife; Caper White butterfly;
1939 - Trespasser on North Head military land; Smallpox patients
in Quarantine in 1901.
Echidna
April 2020
Education room closed but plant identification link provided;
Heliotropium amplexicaule - weed; Nursery on "care and
maintenance" only due to Covid-19; Eating the wildlife; Book
review of "Healings and Burials at Sydney’s North Head"
by Lady Jean Duncan Foley; Third Cemetery - Mr Arthur Reid;
Independent Review of the Environment Protection and
Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
Planting 2014 Plants in
2020
May 2020 Native Plant Nursery; Planting
in 2014 and what the area looks like in 2020; Photos from North
Head; Pampas Grass and its negative impacts; Sydney Morning
Herald article from 1930 about the Quarantine Station and its
carvings.
Female Superb Fairy Wren
June 2020
Education Room (plus front door) repainted; Native Plant Nursery
volunteers working but with restrictions due to Covid-19; Birds
of North Head; Bird of Paradise Flies; Lantana camara;
Back in Time - 1918 Spanish Influenza epidemic
Black cockatoo
July 2020
Native Plant Nursery; Calyptorhynchus funereus (Black Cockatoo);
Imperata cylindrica - not a weed, but a taste of history; Back
in Time - stories from Newspapers - Neglected Cemetery in1911
and The Plague in 1900
Third Cemetery
August 2020
Nursery; Sands under the microscope; Bitou Bush & Boneseed
(Chrysanthemoides monilifera, subspecies rotundata &
monilifera); Back in Time - Parks and Playground Movement report
from 1935; Third Cemetery - two nurses, who looked after
patients with Influenza, contracted the disease and died.
Obelisk
September 2020
Heavy rain caused flooding in the nursery; Pandorea
pandorana; Seeding mosses; Obelisk with engravings by
soldiers who were quarantined in 2018; Acetosa sagittata
or Turkey Rhubarb - a weed
Regrowth after controlled burn
October 2020
Spring in the Nursery; Controlled burn of bushland;
Actinotus helianthi flourishing after fire; Reminiscences of growing up on North Head by John Neil Harris
QR Code sign
November 2020
Echidna helps with Asset Protection Zone; Hazard Reduction Burn
escapes; Have your say about North Head Sanctuary; $40.6m
for Harbour Trust Heritage Sites; Bushland will recover; Net
experiments on North Head; Installation of QR Code signs helping
people to get to know our plants.
Domino Cuckoo Bee
December 2020
Native Plant Nursery closed from Dec 22 through to Jan 5, 2021;
Regrowth after September fire; Domino Cuckoo Bee; Yellow-tailed
black cockatoo; Wildlife and the fire; Influenza Pandemic
1919