Bondi to Coogee coastal walk

There's a nice easy six kilometre walk that links several of the best known beaches in the land. It's the Bondi to Coogee coastal walk, and I re-acquainted myself with it yesterday.

I tend to do the annual pilgrimage to the 'Sculptures by the Sea' exhibition every October. The walk from Bondi to Tamarama is very slow then, with the teeming hordes of sculpture watchers. Yesterday was much more relaxed.

Bondi Beach

Bondi Icebergs Club

Tamarama Beach. Closed yesterday, like many others, due to the wild surf resulting from Fiji's Cyclone Winston - the southern hemisphere's most powerful on record, it's been called.

Bronte Beach, 'birthplace of surf lifesaving clubs'.

Those photogenic Sydney sandstone cliffs

Waverley Cemetery, home to a few famous historical figures,including poet Henry Lawson. They've built a bypass recently, to divert the majority of coastal walkers along the cliff top at the front.

Clovelly Beach,  sand at one end, but Depression era flat concrete sunbaking decks either side.

Boardwalk above Gordons Bay

Gordons Bay

Approaching Coogee Beach you pass the shrine to the Virgin Mary, at the site of all the miraculous sightings of her on sunny afternoons since 2003.

Coogee Beach



   
 Looking north to Bronte, Tamarama, and Bondi