Bondi Beach
Iconic crescent of golden sand and surf, home to legendary lifesavers and Australia's largest mass sea rescue.
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This guide to Bondi Beach in Sydney centers on a single blistering Sunday in February 1938, when tens of thousands packed the sand and a shallow swimming pool formed by an offshore sandbank. It follows the roughly sixty lifesavers on duty that day as an ordinary afternoon turns into an emergency, and the makeshift field hospital that formed in the surf clubhouse. The day is remembered simply as Black Sunday.
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