Freshwater
Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids.
The term excludes seawater and brackish water, but it does include non-salty mineral-rich waters, such as chalybeate springs. Fresh water may encompass frozen and meltwater in ice sheets, ice caps, glaciers, snowfields and icebergs, natural precipitations such as rainfall, snowfall, hail/sleet and graupel, and surface runoffs that form inland bodies of water such as wetlands, ponds, lakes, rivers, streams, as well as groundwater contained in aquifers, subterranean rivers and lakes.
Getting around Freshwater the local way
- Get inIn the south, the Northern Beaches are connected to Circular Quay by the famous Manly Ferry, running every fifteen minutes between Manly and the (Sydney City Centre).
- Get inFrom the north, there is also Palm Beach Ferries which operates between Palm Beach and Ettalong (on the Central Coast) and runs every hour or two.
- Get aroundThere are a couple of specialised local service ferries around the northern beaches.
- Get aroundThe Church Point Ferry company provides services on Pittwater between Church Point and Scotland Island.
From Wikivoyage: Sydney/Northern Beaches, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-05.
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