Swimming for life Narrabeen’s Paul Bailey has certainly had an interesting journey in his 60 years, spanning a 40-year career as an accountant, a decade and a half spent surf lifesaving, and an ongoing battle with mental health. This vast array...

North Shore lawyer Nikki Cassar reveals what life is like volunteering in the NSW State Emergency Service (SES) Mosman Unit. It’s been a wild few months across the lower North Shore, with homes, businesses and roads flooded due to the fierce...

Most readers will know that Powder Works Road at Narrabeen gets its name from a failed attempt to produce gunpowder commercially. They may know that it was the brain child of an entrepreneurial businessman, Carl von Bieren, or was it? Certainly,...

Can mediums actually see things beyond the physical? Can they connect us to family members long gone? North Shore Living sent four intrepid locals to one-on-one readings to find out.   Does the idea of seeing a psychic intrigue you, but you’re...

What’s evident upon sitting down to chat with three-time Winter Olympian Sami Kennedy-Sim is she’s a Warringah girl through and through. The former Mosman High student smiles fondly as she recalls growing up playing touch football with Manly Warringah and training...

Manly’s multi-award-winning author, Belinda Murrell, is striving to create a positive space for young writers, helping them find their creative voice. Writing since the age of eight, Belinda is continuing her legacy as an author, with a strong history of writers...

Whoever said old dogs can’t learn new tricks hasn’t seen older men on the Northern Beaches learning how to cook. Men’s Kitchen is a not-for-profit organisation where older men come together to learn cooking skills, gain confidence in the kitchen...

One of the earliest churches on the Northern Beaches was also its most remote. Its building was initiated by Father John Joseph Therry, an Irish Roman Catholic priest who arrived in the Sydney colony in 1830 at age 30. His arrival...

Michelle Palatucci’s major dance comeback is on for 2022, after dancing her way from the Northern Beaches to New York when she was just 17 years old. Peninsula Living caught up with the Aussie in America over Skype in late...