2018 Newsletters
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Visitor to Planted Area
January 2018
North Head Sanctuary Discovery Day; Celebrating 21years; North Head Project; ESBS redefined; next General Meeting Feb 24 will include a walk around our planted areas; Third Cemetery - pneumonic influenza;
Discovery Day 2018
February 2018
General Meeting Feb 24 - walk around planted areas; North Head Sanctuary Discovery Day; FrogID; Weed - Anagallis arvensis or Scarlet Pimpernel; Bubonic Plague; North Head Project - art on display at Manly Art Gallery
Horse Sculpture
March 2018
Information Room; Manly Flower Shows from the past; Nursery News; Snake bite in the 21st Century; Bronze Horse Scultpure; Third Cemetery - 100 years since soldiers arrived home from the First World War with influenza.
Phillip Jones
April 2018
Next general meeting - April 21 - Speaker, Phillip Jones; New walking track; Torres Strait Islander flag; The lungs of a plant; Third Cemetery - getting permission to erect a tombstone; King George VII carriage?
Acacia terminalis
May 2018
Replacing wooden benches in North Head Sanctuary nursery; Enjoying North Head in 1933; Threatened Species Children’s Art Competition 2018 from June 4 to August 3; Third Cemetery - stories of the plague in April,1900.
New track
June 2018
Recognising & celebrating Aboriginal culture; Whale Watching Season; New Track on North Head; Back in time; Julie Nettleton’s Triptych; Third Cemetery - deaths from the Makura.
After the burn
July 2018
General Meeting, July 28, by Wendy Grimm entitled "Pollination – not just the realm of bees!"; Education Room - new display of wildlife; Thank you to Four Seasons Nursery; Wartime life at North Head; Hazard reduction burns on North Head; Third Cemetery - memorial wreaths in 1920
Grass trees after fire
August 2018
Spring Wildflower Walks; Native Plant Nursery - Frog Pond area; After the burn - Grass Trees (Xanthorrhoeas) recovering; Back in time - the value placed on Zanthorrhoea resin; North Head - a special cultural place; Third Cemetery - baby died from measles; Stony Range Spring Festival
Boronia ledifolia
September 2018
Spring Wildflower Walks; Boronia ledifolia; After the burn is over ...; Native Plant Nursery; Back in time; Grass Tree gum; Stony Range Botanic Garden Spring Festival; Q-Station 10th Birthday Open Day; Third Cemetery - Italian reservists
After the 2018 burn
October 2018
Annual General Meeting - 2pm on Nov 10; Spring Wildflower Walks; Caledenia carnea; Botanical Survey of North Head; After the burn is over ...; Native Plant Nursery; News from the Fire Front; Citizen Science - call for ideas for small projects that could be attempted on North Head; Back in time - a person in quarantine "escaped" and went to the movies in Manly in June 1919.
Liverwort
November 2018
Annual General Meeting - 2pm on Nov 10; Northern Beaches Council Eco Awards; Triple J - new kid on the airwaves; Spring Wildflower Walks; Liverwort; Brush-turkey App; Third Cemetery - smallpox death in 1914
Sword Grass Brown Butterfly
December 2018
Ocean Care Day; Native Plant Nursery; Insects of North Head (The Sword Grass Brown Butterfly, Tisiphone abeona, and the White Tussock Moth, Acyphas sp); Back in time - transfer of land; Third Cemetery - deaths from influenza; Committee for 2018 - 2019
