Bondi Beach

We still had a few hours left on the 24 hour hop-on hop-off bus tour, so we decided to take a ride out to Sydney’s famous Bondi Beach and see what it’s all about.

We walked around the area near the Botanical Gardens trying to find the proper bus stop. As we were standing on a corner deciphering the map, the bus pulled up right in front of us. It wasn’t a regular bus stop. The driver said we looked lost and he had spotted the red map in our hands, so he pulled over and picked us up. (As our vacation progressed, we found the Aussies to be quite helpful in assisting lost tourists.)

We rode the bus to the main transfer station and switched buses for the ride to Bondi. A fellow who looked like Santa Claus gave us a tip on how to get back quickly to the hotel from Bondi. Just take the 355 bus. It was fairly direct and saved a lot of time by avoiding bus transfers.

Bondi Beach is world renowned and appears to be rather popular on a hot summer day.


On a cool spring day in early November, it appears more like this.


Annette walking into the Tasman Sea (Surf’s up!).


We walked around the beach for awhile, took each others picture and had a late lunch at Nicks, the round glass building behind Annette to the right.



After lunch we shopped a bit and then caught the bus back to the hotel in time to change and walk over to the opera house for the first show mentioned in a previous post.