Bronte Beach
Sandy cove beneath sandstone cliffs, with a coastal rock pool and a historic surf lifesaving club watching the waves.
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This guide to Bronte Beach in Sydney centers on the evening of 13 February 1924, when a saleswoman named Nita Derrett waded into the water just off this beach for an evening swim like hundreds before her. It follows the two young lifesavers of the Bronte Surf Life Saving Club, founded in 1903 after an earlier drowning here, who heard her scream and ran straight into the surf. Listen for what the club, and the ocean pool cut into the rocks at the beach's southern end, still mean for swimming here today.
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