Aerial photographs often show this contemporary resort as a dramatic silver stingray nestled in a eucalyptus forest beside Great Oyster Bay.

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There's a very thick pall of smoke which smells kind of like a mixture of menthol and charcoal because there are quite a few eucalyptus trees in the forest.

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Drive east and you see the same, an undulent landscape carpeted with buildings completed or under construction, roads thick with traffic, and a few forlorn patches of the original Atlantic Forest or more recently transplanted eucalyptus trees to break up the relentless jumble of concrete.

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In this area, you can see the drought has left dried eucalyptus leaves and even dead ferns that just burnt up as tinder and let the whole forest catch fire very quickly.

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