Today's smothered Bondi sunrise

Boom. It’s Winter.

Like it always does, winter arrived in a hurry. One day it’s boardshorts and warm mornings, the next it’s June 1 and everyone’s digging out the down jackets. The seasonal switch has been flicked. Cold mornings, chilly sea breezes and that awkward sprint across the sand back to the car park. The ocean looked completely […]

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Girls having a party in the corner of Icebergs

#goodtimes

Plenty of sunshine on tap today with just a slim chance of a cheeky shower around 7 pm. Out front, the waves are head-high and groomed to perfection. The early tide didn’t do us any favours, but from 9:30 am onwards I watched a steady stream of rippable sections roll in. Plenty to go around, […]

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Clubbies gone wild! South Bondi

Nuggety

It’s a rockstar day down at Bondi – there’s plenty to like about it. The left at Ramp 2 was throwing out small but very rippable walls. The groms were glued to it like seagulls on a hot chip. Not huge, shoulder-high on the sets at best, but the shape was a little nugget of […]

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Surfaid's MAKE A WAVE month

Make A Wave

Welcome to the first day of spring. It wasn’t warm. But brighter things are brewing, promise. This morning, the great O-Dawg (Owen Wright) and Kobi Clements kicked off their 30 days of surfing for September (Called MAKE A WAVE) to raise much-needed funds for Surfaid — the legends helping communities in Indo where many of […]

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Petey-k, on turbo rails, Bondi this morning

Outside the Silo

Are you watching the TV series on Apple called SILO? It’s a futuristic sci-fi where, post-apocalypse, we all live underground. Saying the words “I WANT TO GO OUTSIDE” was seen as irrational — and if you said it, you had to actually follow through. Today, I went outside.I saw a break in the rain, rode […]

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Clement Piellard - the silent French Assassin blowing up

Fusion

Today is a weird combination—warm and sunny before 1 p.m. and now stormy with torrential rain in the afternoon. It’s definitely an indoor afternoon! It was eerily quiet down at Bondi this morning around 6 am; school hols end today, so I think everyone is freaking out, getting haircuts, polishing shoes or scurrying kids to […]

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