Cronulla Beach

This guide to Cronulla Beach in Sydney traces one week in December 2005: a scuffle between young men and off-duty lifesavers at North Cronulla, the flood of forwarded text messages that followed, and the morning several thousand people gathered on this sand chanting to reclaim it. It follows how the day turned into violence, and the reprisals that spread beyond the beach itself that night. Picture that crowd here, at what is now Sydney's calmest ocean beach at the end of the train line.