Bondi Icebergs Swimming CLUB - The Bergs Bistro

This guide to the Bondi Icebergs Swimming Club in Sydney traces a winter tradition begun in 1929, when local lifesavers write themselves a punishing membership rule that still trips people up today: race three Sundays out of four through winter, for five straight years, no exceptions, not even for a future prime minister. It follows the club from a tin shed to its unusual liquor license, and the decades women were kept out entirely. Listen with a view down the ocean pool toward the horizon.