Beautiful beach. It was Australia's winter time, but there were surfer's everywhere. The architecture in the area is great. It doesn't look like a dumpy little beach town. I almost thought of Croatia looking at the surrounding buildings and hills.

Any pics??

Yes. I have to see where they are. I scanned them, but I have to figure out where they are. How do people post photos here? 1) upload them here, then link them, or 2) link from an outside site, or 3) either?

upload them here right in the post with the browse button

Thanks. I just determined that the photos are on a CD and not on my hard drive. I'll post them tomorrow.

Then, once we get Bondiguy online, we'll talk about vegemite and Lamingtons.

so what you're saying is, that even though you're from Washington, you'd rather be in bondi

(i know, it doesn't get more low brow than that )

Bondi's nice, but if I were on a Sydney Beach, I'd rather be on:

Cobbler's
Lady Jane
Obelisk

And Bondi knows EXACTLY what I'm talking about.....if he ever reads this thread....

Trust you to gay it up!

i calls em like I sees em!

Issac do I know you outside this board??? If so PM me if not ignore me

Gunnison Beach and Orient Beach are other favorites, but they're not in the Sydney area.

Isaac when were u here dude?

Bondi is actually minutes from the CBD of Sydney, and there are not too many beach destinations around the world like that.

It is always thriving with tourists and locals and I will surf there any day of the year as long as the swell is good

Bondi,

I was there in July-August of 2001. I was presenting a paper to an engineering organization that was holding a conference in Melbourne. My wife and I stayed in Sydney for five days first, and then went to Melbourne for five.

I never had an urge to go to Australia. However, after that experience, I would recommend Australia to anybody, especially Americans.

By the way, we hit four beaches in one day. They were - in order - Obelisk, Cobblers, Lady Bay, and Bondi. The only beach we had to wear clothes on was Bondi. You have to take the bad with the good, I guess.

Today, I found my CD of Australia photos, but I think I forgot to put it in my bag on the way back from work. I'll check in a few minutes.

I hope you have it

I brought home the CD with Australia video, not the photos. How difficult is it if I do screen caps, to put them up here. Can I post them straight here using the Attachments utility at the bottom of the page?

I've got GREAT stuff. Bondi, the sushi-go-round, flying foxes (the biggest freaking bats you've ever seen), my STUNNING (haha) presentation, and two tasmanian devils fighting at Featherdale Wildlife Refuge.

Experiment. Surfers in the water at Bondi beach. Three of them. Look how close they are together on a breaking wave:

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From the preview, I don't think this worked...

This is me on the beach.

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Part of the complex of buildings that form a curve around beach. Unlike most beaches I go to (isolated, nude), this one has great shops that you can walk right up to. We took the Bondi Explorer bus right to Bondi.

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Bondi houses that ring the whole beach area, in what look almost like terraced hills. Absolutely beautiful. That must be some expensive real estate.

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You can see my house in that photo! just kidding
That is some prime real estate indeed dude.

Glad u enjoyed ur time here in Sydney. Those beaches u mentioned are nudist no? Although topless is considered acceptable on ANY beach in Sydney and throughout Australia.

That building was the Bondi Pavillion

Wow, they named a pavillion after you!

Flying foxes. I held my hand up near the cage so that you could get an idea how big these freaking bats are. The head of one of these things is as big as my hand -- and I have big hands.

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Closeup of a flying fox. Check out this thing. It is STRAIGHT from Hell....

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Haha yeah... I hold alotta sway in this town

Higher-resolution photo:

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Some chick I met at the top of the Sydney Harbor Bridge. I wonder what she's up to these day? Probably shagging some bloody Yank somewhere.

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The view of Darling Harbour from my hotel room in Sydney. This is about half of what you could see from the window. I couldn't get the whole thing with my camera lens.

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I bet she is,


Is that where you all met for real??? I didnt know that.

I think I might have to take a Vacation to Aussie land in the future I never planned on it, to much Discovery Channel has scared me from wanting to go there but after these pics I will have to rethink.

Damn dude you must have ponied up some serious cash for that room!

That is actually cockle bay which forms part of the harbour but only a small part of it

Bondi, the hotel was the Four Points Sydney (Sheraton). It was a great deal because I think they were underbooked at the time. Sometimes it seemed like we were the only non-Japanese there, though.

The complimentary breakfasts were AMAZING. It was an all-you-can-eat buffet every day:

Bacon, Canadian bacon, three kinds of sausage (including veal sausage, which I never had before), pancakes, smoked salmon, a Miso soup bar, unlimited fresh orange, pineapple, and apple juice. The best coffee I ever had at a hotel. Pancakes, scrambled eggs. I even took photos of THAT. I'll post in a minute....

Issac I take it you will be picking up the tab in may for dinner eh

As long as I don't have to pick up the tag for flying you guys out to Four Points Sydney....

I am gonna search on the cost of an aussie vacation right now. I just have to watch for the snakes and spiders and jellyfish

We will work on you footing the bill for a vaca later.

Australia is a very safe place. Except for inside the Tasmanian Devil cage (at Featherdale Wildlife Refuge). Tasmanian Devils make a really weird high-pitched scream when their pissed off:

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Ahh yes I know it well!

I have stayed there before once or twice.

You may have seen alot of Asian tourists as they are usually the only ones who can afford to stay at such beautiful hotels! The Yanks and Europenas tend to stay in hostel or lower quality accomodation to save money and stay longer!

Bondi, that place had an incredible buffet dinner. My wife and I cleared out all the sashimi, before going on to the shrimp and crab. The shrimp still had their heads on. That's something I hadn't seen in the States. And the crab clearly was a species I had never seen before. They cut it in half down the middle. It made it very easy to eat.

The myths u hear about Australia with snakes, spiders, crocodiles etc are overblown thanks to Stever Irwin et al.

Fact is most tourist destinations here are big cities. While it may not be big compared to the US almost 5 million ppl love in Sydney alone.

The only place you will find these deadly creatures is in what we call the outback (rural areas) and not many people go there.

I would fathom to think it would be quite expensive due to the distance most of you would have to travel. Thats why people come here and stay for a month or two to make it worthwhile or tag it onto their asian, bali, fiji etc holidays

It was probably a blue swimmer or sand groper crab! Shrimp (prawns) are almost always served with heads on here to keep the freshness and the taste.

It is probably a 4.5 to 5 star hotel so the service, food, room, view would have been magnificent!

I guess that makes sense. They were all over me at the concierge desk. I'm surprised they didn't give me a scalp massage every time I asked for directions.

We were trying to find all the nude beaches but didn't want to come out and ask directly. So, we would ask about places around the beach. And they were like, "Why would you want to go there? There's a much better restaurant/store/part/etc. at" some place about 10 miles away....

See most of the stuff I seen was ont he discovery channels top ten deadlies **fill in the blanks** shows that they do and the top two always seem to be in Austrailia they said the brown snake I think it was is commom in populated areas.

That is what scared me but I am thinking it would be worth the trip now.

When you are over my way in a few months go eat at the crab pot the heads are on them there to

Correct... the Brown Snake is Australian but it is only found in the outback of rural/ semi rural type areas and its not like they are all over the place so much so you cant see the floor! If you come to any major city the only place you will see these deadly creatures you speak of will be in ZOO's!

Ok I feel much better now, they were showing them in communities crawling through garages and stuff I was like forget that.

Seemed the deadliest everything was there:P

haha no doubt we have some deadly shit here but not in the city!

You should be more worried about people like me!

I live here do you really think I am worried of you

Allthough that wolf creek movie the dude was pretty wacky

muhahaha *best evil luagh i can do*

It was too cold for us to get into the water (although, it didn't stop us from hanging out naked on the sand). However, if it had been warm, I would have been worried about:

Irukanji (not sure if I have the spelling right)
Sea Wasp/Box Jelly
Stone Fish

I have no idea what the first one is?

Box Jelly fish are only found in deep water so swimming at a beach you'll have no problems. No one has EVER encountered a box jellyfish at a sydney beach!

Stone Fish are tropical I believe so you'd only see them in the Barrier Reef and once again will not harm you unless you piss it off!

DAMNIT I had a bunch of questions for you Bondi and now I cant remember any of them

Just relax and it'll come









(get that one Gnappy)