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 2022
Native Plant Nursery; North Head Scenic Area update; Habitat
Pods for animals after bushfire; Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub
now Critically Endangered; Papuan medical students accommodated
at the Quarantine Station; North Head Sanctuary Foundation
approaching 20 years of action.
Annie Egan plaque
February 2022
North Head Scenic Area upgrade; Firemen quarantined at North
Head in 1918; Remembering Annie Egan and Elizabeth McGregor, who
were nurses died during the Influenza pandemic in 1918; In 1918,
there was an appeal for pyjamas needed for people in quarantine;
Garden escape - Agapanthus - seen at North Head.
Bondi to Manly walk
March 2022
General Meeting March 19 - Speaker John Faulkner - Topic Bondi
to Manly Walk; Bandicoot Heaven re-opening; Nursery
volunteers welcome; Plant Names; Rain impacts on North Head;
Frog Pond construction; Third Cemetery - young man, Sydney
Burrows, died in 1898.
Diamond python
April 2022
Thank you to John Faulkner for fascinating talk; Bandicoot
Heaven; Native Plant Nursery; Storm damage to planted areas;
Hanging Swamp track now open; Tricoryne elatior;
Diamond python; Third Cemetery - mistake in record of child
death in January 1886.
Ants
May 2022
Education Room; Native Plant Nursery - new frog pond;
Formication of ants; Follow the leader caterpillars; Third
Cemetery - arrival of "Stirlingshire".
Frog
June 2022
Thank you to volunteers; World Environment Day - June 5 -
bushcare targetting whisky grass; Meeting on June 18 - speaker Tom Keneally; Q-Station
Open Day - June 5; Volunteers welcome in Education Room and
Native Plant Nursery; Frogs on North Head; Third Cemetery -
Sydney dealing with smallpox
Black Cockatoo
July 2022
Thank you to Tom Keneally for interesting talk in June; Repair
of collapsed frog pond bank and planting it out; Upgrades to the
Wastewater Treatment Plant; Bondi to Manly Walk - signs erected
at North Head; Third Cemetery - deaths from plague in 1900.
Echidna
August 2022
Annual General Meeting Sept 17 - Anne Jackson will talk about
the MediDivert system for managing hospital waste; Native
Plant nursery supplied over 800 plants to NPWS for the renewed
viewing areas on North Head; Spring Flower Walks; Echidna survey
on North Head; Third Cemetery - death from Flu; After the burn.
Lapwing chick
September 2022
Annual General Meeting - Sept 17 at which Ann Jackson will speak
about Medidivert which is a system for reducing waste from
medical facilities; Spring Wildflower walks - Monday 3 Oct 2pm:
Sunday 9 Oct:10am, Wed 12 Oct: 10am; Lapwing chicks have
hatched; The curiosities behind what we can see in Nature;
North Head Scenic area carparks, pathways and bus stop are now
open; New Lookouts are under construction; Third Cemetery -
Joseph Stock died of influenza.
Oval planted area
October 2022
Native Plant Nursery planted area next to oval - many flowering
plants; Echidna survey; Australian Wildlife Conservancy news;
Thelionema umbellatum; Kennedia rubicunda; Third
Cemetery - report from 1919 during Influenza epidemic where
restrictions impacted Anzac Day celebrations.
Frog Spawn
November 2012
10yr celebration; Splendour of Spring; planting on the oval;
Aunty Fran talk available online; North Fort Memorial dedication;
Ocean Care Day; Blue Fish burn revelation; Calochilus;
Third Cemetery - Chinese burial; echidna
New Holland Honeyeater
December 2022
General meeting Dec 3 - Dr Peter Mitchell speaking about the
geology of North head; Echidna survey; Native Plant Nursery; New
Holland Honeyeater; Surveying wild orchids; Orchid photos; North Head Scenic
Lookout; Cryptostylis subulata; Third Cemetery -
smallpox 1884