|
Cubs listening to Geoff Lambert |
November
2011
"Orchids of North Head" in Education Room
on November 12; New card designs; hundreds of cubs on North
Head; Plantings; Ocean Care Day Dec 4; Walks; Third Cemetery -
Thomas Dudley; Erythrorchis cassythoides |
|
George Malakwen |
October
2011
Congratulations - awards, new baby; Spring
Wildflower Walks; Report from conference; Speakers included
George Malakwen; Building 20 open; QS
Open Day; Third Cemetery - suicide; "Bag It" film; Climate Watch
Walk; Olearia tomentosa |
Building
20 before refit
|
September
2011
President Judy Lambert steps down; International conference;
Spring Wildflower Walks; Stony Range Fair; Refit of Building
20: Botanical artist chat; Lasiopetalum rufum; Fire on
North Head; Farewell Nelika |
|
Rain
damage and flooding
|
Aug
2011
AGM 13 Aug 2pm Julie Nettleton
will display her work; thank you volunteers from
the past year; International Conference
8-11 Sep; Fire management by Aboriginal people; Conospermum
longifolium; Floods in Nursery and Education rooms; Third
Cemetery - Edward James Edney. |
Bandicoot
foraging |
July
2011
Bandicoots
on North Head; AGM, Environmental Conference on North Head;
Third Cemetery - J Maley; Botanical drawing exhibition; Education
Centre about to move; planting a new area; Monotoca elliptica |
Cane toad
|
June
2011
Third Cemetery
- John Madden; D'harawal talk; ESL students; Acacia ulicifolia;
Artillery School - "too good for soldiers"; dead cane
toad found on North Head |
William
Menzies' grave |
May
2011
NHSF general
meeting: Third Cemetery - William Campbell Menzies; rabbits
digging in bandicoot nesting area; bandicoot spotlighting;
Inspection of Artillery School in 1937; Xanthorrhoea sp
|
Scenic
Drive planting
|
April
2011
Bandicoots and Banksia Scrub;
Q-Station lectures; Walk and Talk by Peter McLaren; Third Cemetery
- Nursing Sister Elizabeth McGregor; Sydney NP Plan of Management;
Skeleton with typewriter; Planting along Scenic Drive; Platysace
linearifolia; News article from 1935 |
Norfolk
Pine
|
March
2011
Avenue of Honour loop - Norfolk Pine; Q-Station lecture series;
Mystery rock shelter; Third Cemetery - 241 people buried there;
Platysace lanceolata; progress with planting program;
Notes from North Head Sanctuary Foundation planning meeting |
Plants
next to the gym
|
February
2011
Planning
meeting;planting near the gym;Asparagus densiflorus; bandicoots
on the brink; Avenue of Honour; former St Patrick's Seminary;
Oplismenus aemulus; Third Cemetery - Edward Kelly |
Avenue
of Honour |
January
2011
Planning meeting; planting; grant to study bandicoot habitats;
Ocean Care Day; Summerama at North Head; Sydney Harbour National Park Plan of
Management; Avenue of Honour; Hibbertia scandens;
Third Cemetery - George Braunton |
 
Navigation
marker and Third Cemetry
|
December
2010
Walk led by Geoff Lambert; Thank you to volunteers; Coastal
Connections activity; new planting area near Scenic Drive;
Ocean Care Day; Indigenous Health talk at Q-Station; Navigation
marker mystery; Thysanotus tuberosus; Third Cemetery
- the story of James (Jack) Freeman
|
Radar on
North Head |
November
2010
Mystery Walk; Seasons Greetings cards; progress of planted area;
North Head news; Radar on North Head; Calytrix tetragona;
Q-Station lectures; Third Cemetery - the story of George Hammond |
Grave of
Annie Egan
|
October
2010
New cards available; more plantings; Climate Watch; thanks to
those who helped with display for Australian Museum; Quarantine
Station talks; Pistol range; 3rd Cemetery with story of Annie
Egan; make comment on latest proposals for Quarantine Station
|
Third Cemetery |
September
2010
Wildflower walks;Beauty of Biodiversity - art display; Quarantine
Station; Year of Biodiversity at Museum; Hospital Picnic Grounds;
Third Cemetery |
Siân
Waythe |
August
2010
AGM speaker - Andy Donnelly, Science Partnerships Director
EarthWatch Institute; new card designs; North Head Sanctuary
Management Plan; Sunday at the Sanctuary; Working Bee; Siân
Waythe profile; 1873 shipwreck on North Head
|
Hanging
Swamp
|
July
2010
Membership
renewal time, AGM on 1st Sept, "Sunday at the Sanctuary"
event 22nd Aug, more planting, new walk guides, weed threat,
Mystery of the cliff ladders, Zieria laevigata |
Jason Nicol
|
June
2010
Profile
Jason Nicol, Mystery of the missing wall, Hakea gibbosa
|
Mystery
gun
|
May
2010
Plantings
to assist bandicoot research; orchids of North Head; more about
the obelisk; Mystery of guns that never were |
Stone Obelisk |
April
2010
"Treasuring
our Planet" exhibition, planting mulched area, Cabbage
Tree Bay Management Plan and special day, awards for two members,
Mystery of stone obelisk |
Planting
and mulching
|
March
2010
Geoff Bailey's news, planting report, Profile - Rachel Miller
(NPWS ranger), Mystery on North Head - ruined infirmaries -
by Geoff Lambert |
Planting
degraded area |
January/February
2010
Geoff Bailey
to speak at 24th Feb meeting, weeding day 7th Feb, Sydney Harbour
NP Plan of Management due for comment, tawny frogmouth |
Planting
seedlings
|
December
2009
Ocean Care Day, Planting out seedlings, Draft Recovery Plan
for Acacia terminalis ssp terminalis, tracking cats on
North Head,
Profile - Peter Jensen |
No mow
area of bush regeneration
|
November
2009
Building
second nursery bay, Floral diversity of North Head, natural
bush regeneration in areas of no mowing, Christmas cards available,
Dr Nelika Hughes will speak at Nov meeting. |
Launch
of Nursery
|
October
2009
Spring wildflower walks, launch of Nursery and Education Centre,
work started on second nursery bay, Workshop on Weeds
|
Ivan, Katie
and diorama
|
September
2009
Launch of Nursery and Education Centre, over 1000 plants in
the nursery, Spring walks, Wildflower Workshop, Diorama in Education
Centre created by Ivan and Katie. |
New Holland
Honeyeater
|
August
2009
Notice of
AGM, New Holland Honeyeater is on North Head, Wildflower Workshop
announced, construction of second bay of Nursery due to start
soon, Quarantine Station Open Day, Whale Watching from North
Head. |
Seedling
in Nursery
|
July
2009
Nursery and Education Centre are open 10-4pm each weekend
day.
Wildflower cards and the book about Aboriginal seasons are
for sale.
AGM will be in August when Tim will talk about birds on North
Head.
|
Planting
time
|
June
2009
First plants
from nursery are in the ground. Aboriginal Seasons talk.
Goodbye Sally Hamilton.
North Head electrical upgrade.
|
Mural and
Katie
|
May
2009
Katie painted a mural for the Education Centre.
Geoff Lambert will give History of North Head talk in June.
New signs to advertise the Centre. |
Nursery
with seedlings
|
April
2009
Seeds and cuttings are now growing in the Nursery.
Australian
Wildlife Conservancy will be on site soon.
Nature of Manly exhibition.
|
Nursery
construction
|
March
2009
Nursery Bay is built but benches are not yet installed.
Several displays are up in the Education Room. Volunteers
are needed to help with the Nursery and the Education Room.
|
Education Room fitout
|
January
2009
We have the keys! Several people helped with working bees
to clean and paint the floor and install donated furniture.
We have gaine a Coastcare Grant for the
Nursery and Education program. |
Philotheca buxifolia Photo: Jenny Wilson
Elaeocarpus reticulatus Photo: Jenny Wilson
Banksia
aemula
Photo: Jenny Wilson
