Bondi Beach

The debate was where to go for our last day in Sydney, The famous Bondi Beach or the Blue Mountains. Bondi was one hour travel and Blue Mountains two hours on the train. The weather forecast sort of made up our mind. Rain was forecast again for mid day and into the early afternoon so we figured that we could get back from Bondi in reasonable time to do something else if the weather deteriorated but would be pretty well stuck with a crappy day if we went to the Blue Mountain.

We hopped on the ferry to Watson's Bay and got a few more looks at the waterfront.

At Watson's Bay we went to the lookout for Gap Bluff before boarding the bus to Bondi Beach.

It was beautiful and sunny when we arrived at Bondi at noon.

Looks like they were expecting some sort of trouble...

We found a Brazilian cafe for lunch and as we were sitting there, Chris noticed some approaching black clouds.

We had time for a brief walk up the main street checking out the shops before it suddenly got cooler and the wind started to pick up. There was a really nice bar right at the main intersection and we thought it would be good to get a good seat before the deluge started. It ended up, we had a good seat to watch the end of the Final Four basketball game.

The rain really came down for about 20 minutes.....

Two beers later the sun was out and people were heading back to the beach. As you can see, not very busy for a school holiday period...

Some of the surfers had never stopped.

We decided to do the coastal cliff walk to Coogee Beach, about 6 km. Just as we started out, this girl asked me to take her picture. Always willing to help out....

The coastal walk was absolutely beautiful. What would normally take a bit over an hour took a little over 2 1/2 hr because of the numerous photo stops.

We ended up pretty tired and caught the bus at Coogee Beach back to the city.

An hour of recuperation in our hotel room and we ventured out to this really cool pizza spot right around the corner for our hotel. Quite a popular place complete with bouncer/doorman! We had a really good pizza in this funky underground restaurant. Another early to bed night as we are off to Gosford for our last day in Aussie. Next time we will allocate at least a week for Sydney, a great city and much more to experience and see.