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Bondi Beach is an Australian icon, world-renowned as the most popular beach in Australia. Just 7k from Sydney's business district, it's as great a sandy beach you'll find within an international city and offers a wealth of activity: trendy and open-air restaurants, urban-style shops, the famous Sunday markets, wide-open park greens for picnicking or relaxing , festive beach-vibe bars and more. Its people are a melting pot of rich and poor and everything in between - from surfing bums to drum-playing bohemians to families, actors, models, overseas visitors and more. All of them flock to Bondi for the beach or to stroll the vibrant sidewalks of Campbell Parade (Bondi's main street).
The 1km-long beach is bookended on both sides by beautiful headlands that form its protected cove and which, to the south, offer a cliff walk with sweeping views to nearby Tamarama, Bronte and Coogee beaches. For the local crowd, Bondi is the perfect beach, providing them with adventure, a great stress release and a fantastic outdoor lifestyle. What other major city in the world provides an opportunity for everyone to go surf "the early" before the daily grind, "the late" after work or school or even sneak in a lunchtime surf? Right here, right now and just 15 minutes from Sydney's CBD city-centre. That's Bondi!
Bondi factoids:
- Bondi is named after an aboriginal word meaning "the sound of waves breaking over rocks"
- It is home to the a number of surfing clubs, including the Bondi Longboard Club (about 60 members), the Bondi Surfing Club (40-plus members), and the Bondi Girls Surfriders Club (60-plus members)
- Bondi is one of the rare area beaches to face south. Most face east
- There are saltwater swimming pools on each side of the beach that are open to the public: the newly refurbished Bondi Icebergs pool to the south and the North Bondi kids and rock pools to the north
- There are two lifesaving clubs on Bondi Beach
- Bondi public school is right on the beach. Talk about a hard place to concentrate on the books!
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