Shortcut: Northwood

Here's a suburb I was originally going to package as a two-for-one, but it all become a little bit unwieldly. As such, please enjoy a shorter-than-usual expose into

Northwood

Northwood is, like its western neighbour Longueville, a relatively unknown slice of North Shore suburbia.

This street sign let me know I'd made it,

and I subsequently got started on this quiet suburban patch.

Northwood is quite close to the city (in a car from here, it takes about 10 minutes to be on the Harbour Bridge), and yet you wouldn't really know it, with quiet streets,

plenty of greenery,

large suburban plots of land,

and even the Eiffel Tower of the North Shore visible in the distance.

As you walk through the very pleasant upper-middle-class (or is this straight up upper class?) suburbia,

I can't help but wonder -

with so much free space so close to the city, which politicians are being bribed so that these areas aren't redeveloped, rather than plonking high rises in head-scratching locations in Western Sydney?

That's a rhetorical question - please don't raid my house Fixated Persons Unit. Besides, the answer is most of them.

With my thinly veiled political commentary complete, I saw this cute playground built into the bushy surrounds,

and more quiet suburbia,

populated with very wealthy looking homes.

I soon reached here, a trailhead into Gore Creek Reserve.

Now in Northwood, you can head south to hit the Lane Cove River. As that's all quite similar to what we've seen in the past couple of suburbs, I decided instead to bypass that piece of the suburb and instead head east via bushwalk.

This means heading into some surprisingly lush bushland,