Last week I went to the beach. I do not consider myself a beach person because of my pale skin that loves to burn and my undesirable ability to get sand everywhere, and I mean every where. After going to the Sydney beaches my beach dissatisfaction has diminished. Although I am still pale and find sand in places days later, I cannot resist the beaches here. I took a bus and a train to Bondi beach, Sydney's largest and most tourist beach. This beach is huge and crowded, but beautiful none the less. The water is this clear green color that stretches for miles, with surfers anticipating the next wave. Australia has a problem with Rip currents that pull people out to sea. To avoid this, the life guards put up flags that advise people what area to swim in. You can also tell where that area is not, because it is where the surfers are. The surfers love the rip currents, or so that is what I have been told. There are also tons of topless women and people that are unnaturally tan. Australia has the highest incidence of skin cancer in the world so I re applied sunscreen every 10 minutes or so. Two men actually stopped me and a friend to ask if we were Irish because we were that pale. So I think we stood out.
There is a cliff walk that connects bondi and 3 other beaches( Tamarama, Bronti, and coogee) that I know of. This cliff walk is a must do for people visiting Sydney. Ahhh it is great. It literally is a cliff walk with a railing. You are right over the water. There are also cliffs you can climb down and the rocks have made little pools of water. I was worried that they were not safe to climb down,but I saw two old women sitting in them so I felt that maybe I could do it too! So I climbed down and sat in the pools of water and splashed around with some dogs. It was great. I have archived that experience as a top 20 most relaxing day of my life. AND.... I didn't get sun burned!!!!But I can't say that for others on the trip. Some people came back and it looked as if they were caught in an actual fire: purple skin, blisters.
We decided to pack up and leave around 6pm. We found ourselves at tamarama beach with no idea how to get home. We called 131500, which is supposed to tell you how to get home using the bus and train system. So we started to wait for the bus, which was not coming. Then we did something SO stupid. Disclaimer.... This is very out of character for me and I would never do this in normal circumstances... Soo a white van drove passed and yelled out the window "do you need a ride," before I knew what happened my friend yelled "yes," but the van kept driving. So we continued to sit there and wait for the bus. Then five minutes later the white van pulls up in front of the stop and offers us a ride. I checked them out: one of them had braces, they let me see their IDs, and they were both 21, so in desperation we got in the van. I had to sit on my friend's lap in the front seat with them. They also promised they wouldn't kill us, I guess it never hurts to ask first. So they agreed to drive us home, despite it being completely out of their way. One was a plumber and the other was a student at TAFE. They were so nice and complete gentlemen the whole way. I would like to give a shout to those two guys: thank you for the ride, and I am sorry we didn't go out to coffee with you, but we really wanted to go home and shower. Every time I see a white van I hope it is you Armidillo and braces boy.
A few days later I tried to find the bus route to tamarama beach and, honestly, had those boys not picked us up I don't know if we would have made it home. So thank you.
There is a cliff walk that connects bondi and 3 other beaches( Tamarama, Bronti, and coogee) that I know of. This cliff walk is a must do for people visiting Sydney. Ahhh it is great. It literally is a cliff walk with a railing. You are right over the water. There are also cliffs you can climb down and the rocks have made little pools of water. I was worried that they were not safe to climb down,but I saw two old women sitting in them so I felt that maybe I could do it too! So I climbed down and sat in the pools of water and splashed around with some dogs. It was great. I have archived that experience as a top 20 most relaxing day of my life. AND.... I didn't get sun burned!!!!But I can't say that for others on the trip. Some people came back and it looked as if they were caught in an actual fire: purple skin, blisters.
We decided to pack up and leave around 6pm. We found ourselves at tamarama beach with no idea how to get home. We called 131500, which is supposed to tell you how to get home using the bus and train system. So we started to wait for the bus, which was not coming. Then we did something SO stupid. Disclaimer.... This is very out of character for me and I would never do this in normal circumstances... Soo a white van drove passed and yelled out the window "do you need a ride," before I knew what happened my friend yelled "yes," but the van kept driving. So we continued to sit there and wait for the bus. Then five minutes later the white van pulls up in front of the stop and offers us a ride. I checked them out: one of them had braces, they let me see their IDs, and they were both 21, so in desperation we got in the van. I had to sit on my friend's lap in the front seat with them. They also promised they wouldn't kill us, I guess it never hurts to ask first. So they agreed to drive us home, despite it being completely out of their way. One was a plumber and the other was a student at TAFE. They were so nice and complete gentlemen the whole way. I would like to give a shout to those two guys: thank you for the ride, and I am sorry we didn't go out to coffee with you, but we really wanted to go home and shower. Every time I see a white van I hope it is you Armidillo and braces boy.
A few days later I tried to find the bus route to tamarama beach and, honestly, had those boys not picked us up I don't know if we would have made it home. So thank you.
Although I'm pretty sure you won't ever have a use for this information again, the bus route for tamarama is 361 :)
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