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On the Wild Side
National parks ring the city and penetrate right into its heart. Large chunks of the harbour
are still edged with bush, while parks cut their way through the skyscrapers and suburbs.
Consequently native critters turn up in the most surprising places. Great clouds of flying
foxes pass overhead at twilight and spend the night rustling around in suburban fig trees,
oversized spiders stake out the corners of lounge room walls, possums rattle the roofs of
terrace houses, and sulphur-crested cockatoos bleat from the railings of urban balconies.
At times Sydney's concrete jungle seems more like an actual one - and doesn't that just
make it all the more exciting?
