Thursday was another one of those pretty surreal days where you think to yourself, “Man, school is awesome.” For class today, we took a train/bus to Bondi Junction, where you get off the bus, look to your right and see a wide expanse of beach, cliffs, cliff houses and surfers. Pretty unbelievable. So the reason we’ve come to the beach is to go for a walk. What did you do at school today? Yea I thought so. Anyway, we walked from Bondi to Bronti as a group. The walk consisted of walking along a path in the side of the cliffs I mentioned before right next to the ocean.
Every corner you turn, there is another gorgeous beach and some spectacular view of a cliff, the ocean, cliff houses, or all three. We stopped after an hour or so when we got to Bronti to have lunch on our own. Some people swam, others sat on a rock and tried to comprehend how surreal their lives are at present. It’s pretty hard to believe all this is really happening. A few others just had fish and chips.
_Not a bad place to stop for lunch
We then came back together for class in the middle of a park with Adrian while Michael and his kids had a nap on the beach. Definitely one of my favorite classes. We then continued the walk past Clovelli and to Coogee, both of which Nick Seeman had shown us photos of to sketch from. Along the way, they have pools that are naturally filled by the ocean overflow back into the ocean.
_Rock Pool at Bronti
_Baths/Pool at Clovelli
Concrete on three sides and one end open to the ocean
At Coogee, our final destination was Wiley’s Baths. It’s another rock pool filled by the ocean, but it has a really cool sort of rickety old deck built up out of the rocks surrounding the baths. From there we took a really really really long bus ride back to Newtown and went to bed to get ready for a weekend in the Blue Mountains.
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