'Cycling the City'
Island 148, February 2017
Not long ago, when I moved to Sydney to live for a couple of years, I had fallen for this part of the city with its southward tilt to Botany Bay, which drains fresh water from the heights of Paddington and Bondi Junction through deep alluvial sands and what was once, prior to colonisation, a series of meandering tributaries, swamps and ponds. It harbours neglected little passages of urban ecosystems, such as that along the Alexandra Canal just metres below the flight paths yet somehow secluded as a country lane. …