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Spotlight on local creative Mai Oshima, a glass artist living and working on the Northern Beaches. Inspired by the ocean and beaches where she surfs.
… for me. I often get ideas while I am swimming or surfing in the water. I came to the Northern Beaches because …
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The list of the 45 former Pittwater Council scenic streets
Avalon Beach and Clareville Bangalley Way Chisholm Avenue Hilltop Road Hudson Parade Palmgrove Road Riverview Road Riviera Avenue Ruskin Rowe The Knoll The Outlook Trappers Way Urara Road Bilgola Bilgola and Allenn Avenues The Circle The Serpentine …
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View the Australia Day Award winners for 2017
Honour Roll 2017 On behalf of everyone on the Northern Beaches, we congratulate our Australia Day Award winners and thank them for the outstanding contributions they have made to the community. The awards were presented at a ceremony in Manly by Australia …
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Manly Life Saving Club is much loved by locals, club members and volunteers, and is a key landmark on this iconic beach front. It’s also one of the…
Manly Life Saving Club is much loved by locals, club members and volunteers, and is a key landmark on this iconic beach front. It’s also one of the oldest clubs in Australia but, unfortunately, its facilities no longer meet the needs of its users. …
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As part of the Coast Walk Public Art Strategic Plan, artists engaged with the local Aboriginal community and key stakeholders to develop designs based on rock engravings of the Elvina Track and other sites in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park.
A Garigal Welcome to Country, 2022 Michael Glasheen and Leslie McLeod Mona Vale SLSC Mick Glasheen has lived and painted on the Northern Beaches for 25 years, capturing the rock art sites, coastal vistas and caves of the Hawkesbury sandstone landscape in …
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A three-day festival for readers, writers, and thinkers featuring authors who are household names, as well as local and emerging writers, across a range of genres.
Beyond the world-famous Manly Beach and eponymous ferry, Manly has a literary life. Manly and the Northern Beaches is an area rich in cultural and linguistic diversity and creativity. This three-day festival for readers, writers, and thinkers will bring …
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home › things-to-do › recreation-area › long-reef-head-aquatic-reserve
Covering an area of approx. 80 ha, its boundaries extend along the shore from Collaroy rock baths south to Long Reef SLSC and out to 100m offshore.
Long Reef Aquatic Reserve extends from Collaroy rockpools to Long Reef Surf Lifesaving Club and from mean high water out 100m to mean low water. Long Reef was the first reserve declared in 1980 to protect marine invertebrates found on the rock platforms …
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Dive into World Oceans Day 2025 with Friends of Bongin Bongin Bay! Join us at Bongin Bongin Bay for a day of celebration and connection to our beautiful ocean and community.
Join us at the picturesque Bongin Bongin Bay for a day dedicated to celebrating and protecting our magnificent oceans. World Oceans Day 2025 promises to be a memorable occasion, and we invite the entire Northern Beaches community to participate in the …
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home › council › news › media-releases › council-budget-201920-over-99-million-capital-projects
Northern Beaches Council has released the 2019/20 draft budget for community comment including total expenditure of $439.1 million, a capital works program of $99.5 million and a projected surplus of $2 million excluding grants and contributions for …
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… infrastructure and highlight historic links to 1920’s surfing culture. Northern Beaches Council Administrator Dick … are similar to those found at Florida and Hawaii and the surfing culture of the 1920’s.” Drop-in sessions are being …
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