Manly Beach is iconic the world over and signals the gateway to Sydney’s Northern Beaches. In contrast to Bondi and the Eastern Suburbs beaches, this northern area of Sydney has a more casual, slightly less cosmopolitan atmosphere. The heart of Manly is in a small spit of land, which joins North Head (the northern point that welcomes the vast Pacific Ocean into Sydney Harbour) with the rest of Sydney’s northern suburbs. Its unique geographical location gives Manly both harbour and ocean shorelines as well as rugged cliff-faces and secluded sandy bays.