Tamarama Beach

This guide to Tamarama Beach in Sydney follows the showman William Anderson, who opened the twenty-acre amusement park Wonderland City here in 1906, complete with a roller coaster, Australia's first open-air ice rink and a hot-air balloon ride. It traces what happened when Anderson tried to fence off the beach in front of you for paying customers only, cutting off swimmers who had always come here for free. Listen for how locals responded, and for what today's surf lifesavers say about the water inside this tiny cove.