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Loftily flanking the mouth of Port Jackson, Sydney Harbour 's main body of water, are the rugged sandstone cliffs of North Head and South Head, providing spectacular viewing points across the calm water to the city 11km away, where the Harbour Bridge spans the sunken valley at its deepest point. The coves, bays, points and headlands of the harbour, and their parks, bushland and swimmable beaches offer many hours of rewarding exploration. However, harbour beaches are not as clean as ocean ones, and after storms are often closed to swimmers . Finding your way by ferry is the most pleasurable method: services run to much of the North Shore and to harbourfront areas of the Eastern Suburbs. The eastern shores are characterized by a certain glitziness and are the haunt of the nouveaux riches, while the leafy North Shore is very much old money. Both sides of the harbour - the North Shore in particular - have pockets of bushland which have been incorporated into Sydney Harbour National Park . The NPWS publishes an excellent free map detailing the areas of the national park and its many walking tracks (tel 9337 5511 for general information). Five islands also pepper the harbour, with two of them - Goat Island and Fort Denison - visitable on tours; the other three, Shark Island, Clarke Island and Rodd Island, are bookable for picnics but you must arrange your own transport.
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