We are here and we are significant

Long before those postcards of Bondi Beach and Sydney Harbour co-opted our image of Sydney, Parramatta was its watery centre. Most Sydneysiders think of western Sydney as a land-locked space but rivers and lakes skirt through and around the region like a series of haphazard cuts across the landscape. The beachy fringes of the city aren’t the only places where people abandon themselves to large bodies of water in the summer in order to escape the heat.