Activities in March

Sunday 9 March, 9 to 11 am
Walk Katandra Bushland Sanctuary (booking essential)

Katandra is a sanctuary for flora and fauna where the wildflowers are their most colourful during spring but all year round there are opportunities for bird watching. The sanctuary covers 12 hectares and is situated on the Ingleside/Warriewood escarpment. We will walk through rainforest remnants with creeks and fern-fringed pools.

Wednesday 12 March, 6:30 to 7:30 pm
Ku-ring-gai Library, 799 Pacific Highway, Gordon, NSW 2072

Join us for the launch of John Martyn’s new book on the geology and flora of the Sydney Basin (booking essential)

Sunday 23 March, 9 am to 1 pm
Walk in Castlereagh Nature Reserve (booking essential)

Formerly Castlereagh State Forest, this is the largest area of natural bushland on Cenozoic age alluvial deposits (rather that shales) in the Western Sydney region. The tree that drove its economics was broad-leaved ironbark Eucalyptus fibrosa which is still the dominant tall tree in the reserve though you will see many others with smooth, pale trunks, either scribbly gums or Parramatta red gums. But it’s the ground flora that’s special; there is an unusually large number of rare, threatened and endemic species: notably nodding geebung Persoonia nutans and the pea-flowered Dillwynia tenuifolia.