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Spend A Day At Beautiful Bondi Beach In Sydney
If you ask anyone on the street in the 🏙 City of Sydney, Australia where the best local beach is, many will tell you to visit the world renowned …
🌺 Bondi Beach Sydney 🌺
Having a love for the ocean and beaches, this was definitely on our list of places to visit, on our stop in Sydney a few seasons ago. Much like that of …
this beach also attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors each and every year, from all over the 🗺 world. Bondi is named appropriately by Australia’s Aboriginal people and means …
“Water Breaking Over Rocks or Noise of Water Breaking Over Rocks.”
First, check out my short amateur photo and 📹 video on our great afternoon spent at 🏖 Bondi Beach.
Bondi Beach Sydney Australia – YouTube Video
Getting To Bondi Beach Is Easy
Bondi Beach or {Bondi Bay}, is located within 7 kilometers from downtown Sydney. Getting to the beach is easily accessible by car or by bus. This district has a population of over ten thousand people, known to be one of Sydney’s most densely populated areas.
Getting most anywhere around the city and surrounding area, is very easy. Catch a city 🚍 transit bus, or travel around using 🚉 rail transit. No need to rent a 🚗 car and battle congested traffic in and around the city limits,
if you prefer not to.
If you are visiting as a tourist like us and want to see some of the more popular sites, I certainly recommend the 🚍 Hop On/Hop Off Sightseeing Tour Bus.
You can purchase a one or two day 🎟 pass and get on and off the bus at your leisure.
This is great way to get around the city and visit the most popular tourist attractions. We bought a 2 day pass and it was excellent!
In fact, the 🚏 Hop On-Hop Off will take you right to Bondi Beach, with some great sightseeing along the way. These 🚌 buses are a great way to get around conveniently, and to see many popular sites, during your stay in Sydney proper.
It seems most major cities around the globe now offer these types of tour buses. It’s because of their ever increasingly popularity, for ease of seeing most major attractions of a city at your leisure.
We have used them in many cities now in past years, and find them unbeatable for convenience and price. 🙂
Things To Be Aware Of At Bondi Beach
Bondi Beach extends for about 1 kilometer and with both ends of the beach, completely different as far as swimming conditions go.
It doesn’t matter what beach you visit in Australia, you must pay close attention to the ⚠ warnings signs and 🏴 flags posted on the beach.
This is for your own safety when entering the water at any of Australia’s beaches. Believe me, we’ve traveled to many tropical destinations around the world over the years, and have never experienced 🌊 currents as strong as in Australia!
Never take the ocean in this country for granted, it may cost you your life!
We love visiting new beaches and swimming on our 🏝 tropical vacations. I can honestly tell you, the beaches in Australia have some of the strongest currents and rip tides that we have ever experienced!
We always paid close attention to 🏴 warning flags 🏴 posted on the public beaches, in all parts of Australia we visited during our vacation. Lifeguards post these flags, to indicate where it is best and safest for you to enter the water.
Even these areas at times, can be very challenging for even the strongest 🏊 swimmers!
So always be on guard, pay attention to the ⚠ warnings and never venture off into the sea where you should not be. These warnings and boundaries are set in place, much like that for snow skiers. Those who venture off beyond the safe boundaries, are the ones that most often run into serious trouble.
Surf Life Saving Australia gives hazard ratings to beaches in Australia, including Bondi Beach.
Watch For Warning Flags And Rip Currents
The northern end of the beach has been given a rating of 4, on a scale of 1 to 10. The southern side is rated at 7, much higher. This is because of a well-known {rip current} offshore, known as the …
“Backpackers’ Express.”
This rip current got its name, because this section of the beach is closest to the local 🚏 bus stop. For those who refused to walk to the other end, where swimming was much safer.
At most public beaches, you will see yellow and 🚩 red flags lifeguards have posted, indicating the safest place in the water at that time for swimming. It is important to stay within the boundaries of those flags! 🚩
You can still have a great time in the water at most of the popular beaches. Just take the necessary precautions and heed to the warning as we did.
A visit to Australia’s beautiful public 🏖 beaches is a – Must Do!
For beach lovers, people watching, or if you’re just looking for a beautiful and scenic outing, then do take the quick trip out to Bondi. I have included a link to the 🦘 Official Australia Tourism website below.
🗺 Be sure to check out the {Google Map} box at the bottom of this post for Bondi Beaches exact location.
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