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 2021
Interpretive centre may open later in January if it is Covid-19
safe; Christmas party for Nursery Volunteers; 135 bus replaced
by 161 bus; Echidna research; Natural bushland recovery after
fire; Influenza pandemic in 1918 - vaccine rollout.
Dinty's house
February 2021
Interpretive centre still closed due to Covid-19; Nursery
volunteers are working Tuesdays and Fridays; Carpenter Bee;
Family stories from Quarantine Station days living in Dinty's
House; 1919 death in Quarantine Station
Memorial Walk plaque
March 2021 NHSF AGM on March 13; Education Room opening from
March 6 onwards; Nursery group would welcome new volunteers;
Garigal Landcare are stepping in to remove weeds from the burn
areas and would welcome volunteers; Pimelea curviflora;
Memorial Walk; Tunnel Tours now include Plotting Room; Scenic
Area upgrade; Third Cemetery - James Cahill
Backobourkia
April 2021
Nursery - the pond area after heavy rain;Backobourkia (an orb spider); About how much
earth is moved by an Echidna in a year?; Wolf
Spider; Quarantine in 1971; Third Cemetery - Private
Robert Fairley
Fairfax Lookout
May 2021
Education Room; Native Plant Nursery; North Head Fairfax Lookout
area Upgrade; Lone Pine; 1790s Port Jackson 4 pounder; Third
Cemetery - "The Makura"; Back in Time - serious allegations
about treatment at the Quarantine Station.
Cellular Slime Mould
June 2021
Sanctuary definition; Community consultation on plans for North
Head; Education Room; Native Plant Nursery; Fire as a tool in
recovery of Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub (ESBS) ecological
community; Cool fires versus Hot fires; Cellular Slime Moulds.
Whale
July 2021
Whales seen from North Head; Education Room; Native Plant
Nursery; Quorum sensing; Atua and Influenza
Kookaburras
August 2021
Nursery; Medicine in the Sanctuary; Life in Quarantine;
Congratulations to Aunty Fran Bodkin; "Knowing our Country"
Bar-shouldered doves
September 2021
Native plant nursery; Spring is here; Echidnas; Birds of North
Head; Controlled burn areas - "before" and "after" photos
showing regrowth.
Juvenile Plovers
October 2021
Native plant nursery; "My North Head" by Peter Nash; Birds of
North Head; Solanum aviculare; Third Cemetery - baby
John Lindsay Christie; retirement of Lindsay Christie; burial of
George Mark Burman
Australian Painted Lady
November 2021
North Head Sanctuary Foundation Annual General Meeting December
11; Bandicoot Heaven still closed; Vale Christabel Casimir;
Upgrade to Scenic Area at North Head in Sydney Harbour National
Park; Woollsia pungens - and using Latin names for
plants; Vanessa kershawi or Australian Painted Lady;
Third Cemetery - John Casey; Flannel Flowers flourish after
bushfires
Garigal Landcare group
December 2021
Annual General Meeting - Malcolm Fisher speaking about Manly
Dam; Nursery visitor - an echidna; Welcome Sparrow; Back in Time
- Pandemic in 1919; Garigal Landcare group removes weeds on
North Head; North Head Wastewater Treatment Plant installs new
equipment; Monotoca elliptica; Third Cemetery -
unvaccinated person dies from smallpox.