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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Nursery volunteers
Nursery volunteers
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
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
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
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
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.

Slime Mould
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
Whale

July 2021
Whales seen from North Head; Education Room; Native Plant Nursery; Quorum sensing; Atua and Influenza
kookaburras
Kookaburras

August 2021
Nursery; Medicine in the Sanctuary; Life in Quarantine; Congratulations to Aunty Fran Bodkin; "Knowing our Country"

Bar-shouldered dove
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 Masked Lapwings
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
Painted Lady
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
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.


Featured Flora and Fauna from the newsletters:

February 2021

 Parsonsia straminea
Parsonsia straminea with carpenter bee
Photo J Wilson
March 2021

 Pimelea curviflora
Pimelea curviflora
Photo Elizabeth Mills
September 2021

Gahnia sieberiana
Dragonfly on Gahnia sieberiana
Photo: Robyn Missen
September 2021

Philotheca salsolifolia
Carpenter Bee and Philotheca salsolifolia
Photo: Robyn Missen
 October 2021

 Solanum aviculare
 Solanum aviculare
 
Photo: Jenny Wilson

November 2021

Flannel Flower
Actinotus helianthi (Flannel Flower)
Photo: Ian Evans
December 2021

Cockatoos feeding on Monotoca elliptica berries
Cockatoos feeding on Monotoca elliptica berries
 
Photo: Alan Ventress
 December 2021

Monotoca elliptica berries
Monotoca elliptica berries
Photo: Jenny Wilson
 
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