Concord

This inner-western Sydney suburb, about 12 kilometres from the city and just a stone's throw from the Olympic Games site at Homebush Bay, has had much of its prime foreshore land onto the Parramatta River claimed by large hospital complexes and the Concord Golf Course.

Three big bays - Majors, Yaralla and Bray's - dig deep into Concord. From here, you can take one of the great Sydney excursions, on a river catamaran up the waterway to Parramatta or downriver into Sydney Harbour Darling Harbour and the city.

Concord is now part of one of Sydney"s youngest municipalities, the City of Canada Bay, whose administrative offices are located at Drummoyne, a particularly pleasant suburb on the tip of a peninsula bound by delightful bays and coves on the Parramatta River.