PITTWATER PERFECTION
Many years ago, when I lived in Melbourne, a new man in my life asked me if I had ever been to Pittwater. I told him I didn’t know what it was, but it sounded like a backwater or a swamp!
Needless to say, that man made it his mission to show me every nook and cranny of beautiful Pittwater and now, more than a decade later, I am very proud to call it home with said man.
We agree that Pittwater is one of the world’s best kept secret waterways. Every inch is as beautiful as the famous waterways of Europe or America but has a fraction of the people, pollution and pretence.
Pittwater is a body of water approximately 40 kilometres north of the Sydney CBD. A semi-mature, tide dominated, drowned valley estuary, it is the result of McCarrs Creek, Cahill Creek and a number of small confluences originating near Church Point combining to form an open body of water. It flows north into Broken Bay, between West Head and Barrenjoey Head, and out to the Tasman Sea. The total area of Pittwater is 18.4 square kilometres. It’s a pristine, majestic wonderland and sits adjacent to the
