Bondi Beach and Coogee Beach

Kevin took me for a trip to the famous Bondi Beach on Tuesday 23rd. Linda was at work. We packed up a picnic and set off in reasonable weather. We parked up and walked along the promenade. Bondi Beach was smaller than I imagined. It's been a surfing beach for over a hundred years. Bondi is at the end of the Sydney 14km City to Surf Run that Linda and Kevin's son ran while I was in Australia.
 Before I got chance to take it all in the rain came down and we ran to a shelter and waited for it to stop. It didn't rain for long so we went back to the car, not before I had bought Bondi Beach t-shirts from the 'Between The Flags' surfing shop! I also bought Bondi Beach postcards to send to friends and family.

Bondi Beach

Bondi Beach in the rain

The clouds were clearing and the sea looked much brighter, more like a surfing beach.
Then we drove on to nearby Coogee Beach (pronounced could jee). The sun was shining and it turned in to a glorious day. We walked up over the cliffs and watched the sea crash against the rocks. The cliffs were mostly sand-stone and you could see huge lumps of rock that had snapped off and fallen to the bottom. The stryated rocks we walked over looked liked waves frozen in time.

Cliffs at Coogee

Rocks at Coogee



Memorial to Bali victims representing Friends, Family and Community Togeher



At the top, called Dolphin Point, we came across several memorials to twenty Australians who were killed in the Bali bombings in 2002. I'd read about the bombings in the papers and seen it on the news and was aware about British holiday makers being killed but these memorials with names and photographs moved me.

 Memorial to Bali victims

Coogee Surf

Wendy ready for her picnic lunch!

After watching the waves crashing over rocks in a rock pool called Giles Bath for ages (I wasn't in a hurry to move on because it was so beautiful) we walked to a grassy area on the headland overlooking the sea and ate our yummy picnic.