Saturday, December 20, 2008

Bondi!

Early (well not really early...) next morning we went to Bondi Beach! Its quite a distance from Sydney's CBD. Just have to travel south-east along Oxford Street till you reach Bondi Junction and you turn into Bondi Road, finally into Campbell PDE (or Queen Elizabeth Drive for carparks).
Bondi Bay was smaller than I imagined, but the blue water blew my expectations away!
Too excited eh?
It was not so crowded early in the day... And finding a place in the carpark later in the afternoons would be a bitch (we were told...) and paying the parking fee is a bitch too (AUS$4.50 per hour).
Swimmers are encouraged to swim between the marked red and orange flags:
Not yet a hunk... sigh...:
Perasan 'mat' surfer and beach babe ni...
The sun was GREAT. It was scorching hot! And the water was crystal clear and icy cold; perfect to cool down, and its shallow too; you can go for at least a hundred metres into the water at waist depth till it reaches the chest level:
Plenty of sunbathers... and topless ones too (females, duh...)!
We also had some music courtesy of this guy strumming on his guitar behind us, playing Jason Mraz's songs and the likes...:
It was really a perfect day to sun bath and swim and surf... Well, I didn't actually surf, just 'body-surfed'... Dude, the waves are perfect for surfing, big and has alot of that 'peak' or breaking waves...:
I know, I admit... This looks like a typical 'mat' picture:
After we had our lunch, we had time to kill till the parking was due, so we chilled out on the beach:
Look at how the crowd swelled in the afternoon? I can't even see the coastline!
Me and Ruzi! (*miss ya girl!)
So we headed back to our hotel... Oh, this is my poor man's backpacker's room by the way (the girls got an air-conditioned room upstairs):
Then we headed off to have dinner at this hotel/restaurant serving authentic Malaysian/Indonesian food. So while waiting for the restaurant to open, we cam-whored in the car!
Say no to... ermm... peer 'pleasure'?
But before dinner we drove to North Sydney, across the Harbour Bridge:
Came to a park beside Sydney's Luna Park:
Had a great view, we got there by chance actually:
And then we ventured around the northern areas of Sydney with Ruzi driving (she loves driving) and me navigating (I love reading maps too!)...

Drove up all the way to Mosman to take a picture of this:
I realised we had a peninsular blocking us, so we moved on to that peninsular, only to realise there was another peninsular blocking us again...:
Till next time!

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