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 .....

Port Jackson is the formal name for the great natural harbour at the heart of Sydney, the deep, branching inlet more widely known simply as Sydney Harbour. Carved by a drowned river valley and fed by the Parramatta and Lane Cove rivers, it stretches inland from the Pacific between the sandstone cliffs of North and South Head and takes in the bays, coves and headlands that frame the modern city. The harbour was named by James Cook in 1770 as he sailed past, though he did not enter it; it was Art.....

Strung high among the trees of Taronga Zoo, Wild Ropes sends climbers swinging, balancing and zipping through the canopy with Sydney Harbour spread out below. It is an aerial adventure course set within one of the city's most famous zoos. The course is built into the treetops near the top entrance of the zoo, on the harbour-side slopes at Mosman. Climbers wear safety harnesses clipped to overhead lines as they make their way around. A series of linked courses offer suspension bridges, climbing.....