Discover Waverton
Waveton
Buying local is environmentally responsible and helps create a dynamic suburb.
If you are new to the area, or just want to familiarise yourself with all that is on offer, the following catalogue of local businesses and services will be useful to you.
Is yours not listed? Contact us and we can include it. This is a service to residents.
North Sydney Council Useful Information
The Coal Loader
- The Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability
- Coal Loader wharf
- The Coal Loader cafe
HMAS Waterhen
HMAS Waterhen was commissioned in December 1962. Waterhen is the Australian Navy’s lead establishment for mine warfare. The base is occupied by many professional sailors and home to some of the most advanced mine countermeasure equipment and technology.
Berry’s Bay Lookout & Future Park
Merrits Playground
Merrits Playground is due to receive an upgrade by North Sydney Council sometime in 2024.
Balls Head Reserve
Woodleys Shed
Quarantine Buildings
Oyster Cove and Marina
Badangi Reserve
Often noted as one of North Sydney’s best hidden gems, the area boasts peaceful nature trails with rocky surfaces, waterfalls and pools of water, surrounded by trees and ferns that add to tranquility. Hard to imagine you are just a few kilometres from the city centre. Badangi Reserve serves as a much needed natural area for flora and fauna to find sanctuary, and a small pocket of unspoiled space to remind us of what was here before European settlement.
Waverton Train Station & Wakelin Reserve
This station, once named Bay Road station, opened in 1895 and has been servicing the community ever since. In 1929 it changed its name to Waverton Station and still has an old world charm that other stations have lost.
Running parallel to the station on the eastern side is Wakelin Reserve, named for local artist Roland Wakelin whose beautiful paintings captured local vistas in the early 20th century. The reserve has a well defined, substantial pathway that links the village shops and station to the southern end of Carr Street, and is a scenic shortcut to or from Euroka Street, Union Street and beyond that, McMahons Point.
Bushcare
Bushcare is an environmental program that provides an opportunity for the community to become involved in managing, restoring and conserving local urban bushland areas. Participants meet on a regular basis and are provided with direction, technical advice, tools, native plants, mulch, removal of rubbish, signage and training. Bushcare volunteers can participate in North Sydney Council’s free annual training programs and attend a variety of interesting and informative weekend workshops. Participants keep in touch with the quarterly Bushcare newsletter.
For more information or to find out how to participate, follow the Bushcare link which takes you to the relevant part of the North Sydney Council website.
Streets Alive
We are ‘Willing workers weeding in the Waverton wilderness‘
Streets Alive is similar to North Sydney Council’s popular and effective Bushcare program.
Like Bushcare, Streets Alive draws on the time, skills and commitment of volunteers to enhance the beauty of North Sydney, and in this case, Waverton.
Streets Alive builds on what is already happening informally throughout North Sydney as many residents currently help maintain public gardens near or adjacent to their property. Streets Alive recognises these volunteers for their work and provides them with the support and resources they need to continue.
Streets Alive also provides gardening opportunities for those who don’t have a garden of their own. It fosters community stewardship of public open spaces and encourages participation in gardening as a recreational activity.
Get Involved
Council is seeking both local coordinators and volunteers for Streets Alive. For more information, contact the Streets Alive Coordinator on 02 9936 8283.
The Hub
The Waverton Hub is a mutual organisation of residents of Waverton, Wollstonecraft and neighbouring areas in Sydney. As we grow older, we members of the Hub are helping each other to enjoy our lives, stay in our own homes for as long as we can, to be as healthy as we can, and achieve all this for as little cost as possible.
About a dozen of us started the organisation from scratch in late 2012. We opened for membership in August 2013 with a program of activities and by the end of April 2015 had over 300 members. Around 80 members are working on continuing to build the Hub, setting up systems, and designing and leading activities and events.
Contact Details
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wavertonhub
Website: http://wavertonhub.com.au/
Email: [email protected]
Phone voicemail message on 02 9955 6279
Post: The Hub, 75 Bay Road, Waverton, NSW 2060.
Activities include (but are not limited to)
- local and out of area walks( every Monday);
- TaiChi (every Tuesday) ;
- pilates;
- Iyengar yoga;
- stretch petanque/boules ;
- wine appreciation;
- games afternoon;
- program of speakers;
- investment group;
- transport to shops, social /cultural events ( Sculpture by the Sea, Ensemble Theatre, Cremorne Theatre) ;
- Computer training and Computing Q and A sessions in local cafe;
- art classes( at Coal Loader );
- morning and afternoon teas and neighbourhood gatherings in our own homes and at local cafes; zumba.
