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Bondi Beach

The Most Famous Beach on Earth

Location: 
East of the City

Attractions:
This is Sydney's premiere beach and will host Beach Volleyball during the 2000 Olympic Games. The surfing on this beach is good and it is a very popular destination with Sydneysiders who flock here on the weekends during summer. There are excellent restaurants and cafes along Campbell parade behind the beach.

Short History:
 Bathing during daylight hours was banned in Sydney until the end of the 19th century. At that time, Bondi was a relatively untouched beach. With the increase in public bathing, however, the suburb quickly grew in popularity; and the introduction of the bikini here in the 1940's brought the suburb  international prominence. Today, topless bathing is permitted on the southern end of the beach.

Transport:

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The Opera House by Night
 The beach is a little over 1km long and is a very popular place for those wishing to promenade along the beachfront.

 

 The Opera House from the Harbour Like most Sydney beaches, Bondi can be dangerous and you should swim only in patrolled areas.

Bondi can be crowded on the weekends and is best visited on weekdays if you like it quiet.

 

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 Bondi has strong rip currents and you should only swim between the flags that mark safe swimming areas

 

The Sydney Tourist Guide on CD-ROM is your complete guide to the Olympic city for the year 2000. See places such as Bondi Beach, Sydney Opera House, Sydney Harbour Bridge and Botany Bay, the place where Captain Cook landed. Visit tourist destination such as the Blue Mountains, Jenolan Caves, Bondi Beach, Darling Harbour, the Sydney Opera House, Sydney Harbour Bridge, Taronga Zoo, Sydney Heads, the Gap, Cape Solander, La Perouse and the place where transported convicts first called home in Australia, the Rocks. Through an Herculean effort, Captain Arthur Phillip safely landed over 100 convicts, soldiers and settlers on the shore of Sydney Cove and established the city of Sydney on it's foreshore. Sydney today has a population of over four million people and in the year 2000 it will host the first Olympic Games of the new Millenium.