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A bit of info about suburbs we are located in
The area of the Northern Beaches is a great place to live in, a place where the land meets the ocean under a blue sky. Let’s take a closer look at the suburbs of the Northern Beaches.
Mona Vale
At 28 km of Sydney, close enough for a work commute and far enough to still feel like a holiday destination, resides the Mona Vale suburb with its more than 10,000 residents. Known originally by the Aboriginal name of “Bongin Bongin”, this area received the name of Mona Vale from its colonial owner Robert Campbell around 1814, who named it supposedly after a Scottish town that has yet to be identified.
Mona Vale looks like a natural enclave caught between the ocean surf beach on the East and the calm waters of the Pittwater gulf on the Northern side. With its lush vegetation and its well serviced friendly community, Mona Vale offers a great laid back lifestyle.
Nature lovers are happy to find a breathtaking combination of rugged coastline and gorgeous blue waves with golden sand beaches in between – a surfers’ paradise.
Talking about surfing, sports are a way of life here – almost any local practised sport has its own club, whether it’s sailing, surfing, gliding or netball or rugby.
One of the most beloved attractions in the area is the Winnererremy Bay Reserve, one of the preferred parks for families, where they can enjoy cafés and an outdoor play area with a bike trail. The view from the bay, dotted with yachts that bob on the waves, is an added wonderful bonus.
The Mona Vale Village is the pearl of this area, with its shopping district full of boutiques and cosy cafés that make life worth living.
Dee Why
A little gem in Sydney’s close proximity (18 km only), with more than 21,000 residents, Dee Why keeps a shroud of mystery on how it acquired its name. According to Wikipedia, the first reference to it was made in 1815 by the way of a pencil note of surveyor’s James Meehan reading “Wednesday, 27th Sept, 1815 Dy Beach – Marked a Honey Suckle Tree near the Beach”. Nobody knew what “Dy” meant and several supposition were forwarded to clarify the matter: either DY was simply a marker that Meehan used to mark many other places, or the name came from the Aboriginal language that Meehan used to name many of his surveyed locations, or it was in fact the Leibnitz notation for the derivative in differential calculus, dy/dx (!). By 1840, the “Dy” abbreviation had become one word, “Deewhy”, since probably nobody knew anymore what it stood for.
Dee Why lives on the beach, where the heart of its community is. Residents wake up early in the morning to use it for their morning exercise before work, and the rolling waves are ridden by surfers year round. Also on the beach, the community organises its annual events, like Sun Run and the pro boat series Ocean Thunder, as well as festivities like Australia Day and New Year’s Eve fireworks.
Other attractions of Dee Why, also suitable for families, include the Stony Range Regional Botanic Garden and Dee Why Lagoon Wildlife Refuge. The botanic garden is an oasis of Australian native plants, famous for its spring floral displays, that hosts a Spring Festival every year. The wildlife refuge includes 47 hectares above the high tide water mark of remnant native bushland, a heaven for birdwatching.
On The Strand, there are numerous alfresco cafés and restaurants with expansive views towards the ocean, where you can peacefully spend your days. Asian and Indian grocery stores are mixed in with delicatessen shops and multicultural dining options.
Sawtell
Sawtell is a small suburb in the Northern Beaches, with almost 4,000 residents, and got its name from a man that purchased the land and subdivided it for housing and farmland at the very beginning of the 20th century.
One of the most underrated surfside towns on the east coast of Australia, Sawtell is a developing gem, with superb and unspoilt beaches. It is farther from Sydney, but very well connected by train with the East coast rail line, and by air with the Coffs Harbour airport, only 10 minutes away.
Its patrolled beaches are great for families and excellent for surfers, with beach-breakers that can compete with any other from the East coast. The beach has singing sand when walked on in dry conditions.
Sawtell has numerous sporting clubs and facilities. There are sport clubs for golf, bowling, swimming, surf, tennis, the list goes on and on.
The local community hosts annual events like the Chilli Festival, with more than 100 stalls of local and national vendors serving chilli-based food and products, or the New Year’s Super Fun Day for family entertainment, with competitions of wood chopping, a fun run, or tug of war. There is also the Ben Woods Cricket Tournament, held between Sawtell and Coffs Harbour, which takes place during the Christmas Period. An important surfing competition, to which surfers from all over NSW and Queensland come to compete, raises money for those living with spinal injuries.
There are numerous restaurants and cafés to choose from, and other interesting attractions like the Sawtell Headland, which is popular for whale watching, or the Boambee creek, that has a walking path around the headland and allows safe swimming.
Sawtell is more and more a popular place to live, work and holiday for young and old, for families and professionals. It’s a thriving community with much to show for.
