“Bondi” or “Boondi” is an Aboriginal word meaning the sound of water breaking over rocks. Bondi Beach is in a suburb of Sydney, a very popular area for locals and tourists. The beach is about one mile long, beautiful white sand. The northern part of the beach is best for swimming, rated 4 on a one to ten scale for surfing while the southern part of the beach has dangerous rip tides making it a 7 for surfing. There are shark nets underwater but sharks are still sometimes seen in the area. There are many cool shops.
The Bondi Surf Bathers’ Life Saving Club is officially recognized as the first surf lifesaving club in Australia, established in 1907. The primary objective of surf lifesaving is to protect the bathers who frequent beaches through manned patrols and associated services. Bondi surf lifesaving became famous on Sunday 6th February 1938. They performed over 300 rescues after hundreds of swimmers were swept out to sea by a series of large waves. At the end of the day five lives were lost and the occasion was forever etched into Australian history as ‘Black Sunday’.
The Bondi lifeguards perform around five thousand rescues over the summer period. They also deal with lost children, shark scares and bluebottle stings. Bluebottles are also known as Portugese man o’ war.I will post more on these later.
There is a popular TV show in Australia called Bondi Beach Rescue. Link here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKEHQ-FYxaQ.
TOAL-Trip of a Lifetime 