Manly Observer

14/11/2025

14/11/2025

Here it comes everyone! You ready ? 🎁 🔔 🎄

📍 Manly Corso

14/11/2025

We had such a wonderful community response to the Giving Tree at DYRSL last year (shown here), we are hoping 2025 brings an equal bounty!

THE WHAT NOW?

The giving tree is a Dee Why RSL initiative: Donate a gift this festive season to bring a little joy to those who need it most.

Each bauble on the Giving Tree represents an opportunity to make someone’s Christmas a little brighter.

With your kindness, a simple gift can become a moment of happiness and warmth for children and families in our community. 🎅

WHAT DO I DO?

🎁 Pick and remove a bauble (or more!) from the tree at DYRSL
🎁 Purchase a new gift for the age range displayed on the bauble you picked
🎁 Wrap your gift in clear cellophane or place in a gift bag and place the bauble on the outside
🎁 Place present back under giving tree

All gifts will be collected on Thursday 18 December and distributed to local children and families who need some extra kindness this Christmas.

Want to know more? Visit https://bit.ly/3LK4KdA

ℹ️ Proudly sponsored by Dee Why RAL

13/11/2025

We’ve had no luck on the Aurora front this evening but let us know if you’ve spotted them this evening and from where and what time!

Did enjoy watching all the people staring at the sky and a few staring at the sea, though. 🎣 🌊

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13/11/2025

🌊 SEA YA, TEMPERATURE GUY 👋

Every morning at 4am, before the sun peeps over the horizon, Guy Dunstan, aka the Temperature Guy steps into the sea at South Steyne.

With a headlamp for illumination, he always enters the ocean at the same spot – below the boat ramp at the southern end of Manly Beach. He’s been doing it this way since 15 August 2021.

There, armed with a thermometer (at last check a Weber BBQ meat probe), he records the seawater temperature and then writes the figures on a concrete podium at the south end wall in coloured chalk. It is often accompanied by a picture that has some meaning to him or the community more broadly.

But today he completed his ritual for the last time. Deciding, for no particularly reason other than it being the right moment, his journey as Temperature Guy was at an end.

We will pop in a homage in our next print edition of Manly Observer in early December, but didn’t want to wait that long to say goodbye.

Thanks for the information, the pretty pictures, and the food for thought.

But please chalk on, early risers, chalk on….

Interested in his back story? Enjoy our profile on the Manly identity from two years back: https://manlyobserver.com.au/a-numbers-guy-meet-the-mysterious-man-behind-the-chalk-temps/

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13/11/2025

NEW INDUSTRIAL AND STORAGE SPACES OPEN AT BROOKY!

The Rockwater Brookvale industrial development by is entering its final phase, with completion only a couple of months away. The project, located in one of the Northern Beaches’ key industrial precincts (Brooky!), is bringing new storage and warehouse options to the area.


📍Situated close to Warringah Mall in the epic and awesome suburb of Brooky, the development is about 4km from Curl Curl and Manly, with the Sydney CBD about 30 minutes away.

🌊 The location offers a blend of industrial functionality with access to the Northern Beaches lifestyle.

📦With only seven warehouses remaining, the project is running an end of year promotion on selected units until December 19. The display suite is currently open for inspections, giving prospective buyers and tenants the opportunity to view the spaces before the February move-in date.

🗓️The development features modern storage and warehouse solutions designed to meet various business needs, from compact storage units to larger warehouse spaces. Each unit has been designed with contemporary industrial requirements in mind. Inspections available now at the display suite.

⏰More info: https://rockwaterbrookvale.com or follow

ℹ️ A sponsored post in support of local news and decent storage space

12/11/2025

12/11/2025

A Severe Geomagnetic Storm (G4) is currently in progress as of 12pm AEDT Wednesday, 12 November 2025.

The Australian Space Weather Forecasting Centre has issued an Aurora Alert. The Aurora Australis may be visible from unusually low latitudes, including dark-sky locations near Sydney and Perth.

To view auroras, you ideally need a dark night with little cloud cover, and an unobstructed view to the south.

Clear skies are forecast tonight for New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and the majority of South Australia and Western Australia.

There will be cloudy skies across most of Tasmania. Victoria will have partly cloudy skies in several districts but some breaks in the cloud that could hopefully provide some good viewing windows.

For the latest forecasts and warnings for your area, go to our website www.bom.gov.au or visit the BOM Weather app.

12/11/2025

12/11/2025

What incredible beauty at North Head this evening ! If you haven’t done the swamp walk since the fires a few years back it’s absolute perfection at the moment.

12/11/2025

12/11/2025

MANLY WARRINGAH GYMNASTIC CLUB BUILD BEGINS

🤸‍♂️ This week sees the start of the construction of Manly Warringah Gymnastic Club’s (MWGC) $10 million dollar Centre of Excellence which is set to open in early 2027.

“Our commitment is for MWGC to be the place where every journey from cartwheels to the Olympics matters,” said MWGC CEO, David Krantz, at Monday’s Turning of the Sod event.

“The Centre of Excellence, here at Nolan Reserve, will allow that commitment to ring true for generations of athletes, young and old. This will be the place where Olympic dreams are held, nurtured and achieved.”

MWGC CEO, David Krantz. Image: Avi Vince
MWGC secured a 30-year lease arrangement with Council to construct, fund and operate a world class indoor gymnastics Centre of Excellence at Nolan Reserve (where the former North Manly Bowling Club once was).

Full story on our website 🔗 https://manlyobserver.com.au/ten-years-in-the-making-construction-on-manly-warringah-gymnastic-clubs-centre-for-excellence-begins/