A small, sheltered cove on the rocky shoreline between Manly and Shelly Beach, Fairy Bower Beach is one of the quieter corners of Sydney's northern beaches, valued more for its rock pools and calm water than for surf. It sits along the Marine Parade walkway that links Manly's main ocean beach to the protected waters of Cabbage Tree Bay, and its modest strip of sand and tidal pools give it an intimate feel far removed from the busier beach nearby. The cove's best-known feature is the Fairy Bower.....

A ferry ride across Sydney Harbour, past the Opera House and the heads, delivers visitors to Manly Beach, one of the city's most popular ocean beaches on the northern side of the harbour entrance. The wide arc of golden sand, backed by towering Norfolk Island pines along the Esplanade, has been a seaside resort since the nineteenth century, when the entrepreneur who developed it promoted the suburb as being seven miles from Sydney and a thousand miles from care. The surf beach faces the Pacific.....

Winding for around ten kilometres along the northern shore of Sydney Harbour, the Manly to Spit Bridge Coastal Walk is one of the city's best-loved bushwalks, linking the seaside suburb of Manly with the Spit Bridge at Mosman. The track threads between pockets of bushland, secluded harbour beaches and clifftop lookouts, offering a sequence of changing views across the water to the city skyline, the heads and the boats that crowd the harbour. Along the way walkers pass quiet coves such as Forty .....