Sleeping? Nah, breath holding with the Swat team - Bronte Pool 6am

Phew!

2 x Phews. PHEW 1) Finally, the ultra-humid muggy weather has blown away with a fresh, crisp, new southerly today. It’s now much cooler and less Singapore-like. It’s also stirred up some swell, onshore mush (shoulder high), but it’s bigger than yesterday’s dribblers. Semi-surfable (even though Will found a tubey which was a freak). PHEW […]

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Bondi, little dribbles under cloudy skies

Return to Rituals

G’day, how’s your 2023 been so far? This week many will return to their regular routines (like me); some tykes will even be back at school!  Bondi has returned to quieter times this morning, contrasting with recent busy beach days.  We have small 1-2 footers limping in on a mid-south bank. Plenty of large mals enjoy […]

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Silk, Bondi

Mad Bondi

Bondi is a crazy place. We forget just how mental after two years of Covid/La Nina – watering the madness down. This summer, we have an enormous array of tourists returning AND the kick-ass weather to match. It’s back to full crank…it’s hilarious, there’s no place like it. I shimmied down the beach at 5:40 am; […]

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Swims before work - the place to be this morning

TWENTY-4

TWENTY-FOUR – no, not 20-24, not 24 degrees on land – but a sublime 24 degrees in the water at sunrise today. That’s warmer than the 23-degree air temperature at 6 am. Needless to say, ava swim to kick off the week. First day back at the office? Wasn’t it a superb Xmas of surf […]

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Our new Bondi Aquabumps HQ. 64 Hall Street

We’ve moved…

Big big news, after 14 years of working out of an old mechanics yard on Curlewis in Bondi we’ve skipped a couple of streets to the bustling pavements of Hall Street – Bondi’s main drag. It’s awesome! I’ve ALWAYS wanted to be on Hall, and being booted out seemed like the optimal time to take […]

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