Two days after the storm - the clean up.

Council brings in the bulldozers. They will spend weeks pushing all the sand back so that the beach will be back to the way it was before the storm. The local rumour is that this mother costs $25,000 a week.


This is how the skate bowl looks. I don't suppose they will be able to get much machinery in here so it will probably be down to the shovels. Should keep a few of the council staff busy for a while.


Out the front of Lush on Bondi they have several bobcats and guys on shovels getting all the sand into heaps ...


..... before they load it onto trucks and take it back to the beach.


After just a day things are pretty much back to normal in front of the Pavilion but it will take a lot longer in other areas along the beachfront.

The day after the storm - Lush is on the beach!

The storm broke this morning after 4 days. There were big sets of rolling waves coming in from a long way out.


We had been closed for 4 days and today Lush on Bondi was really on the beach.


For the first time since we have been here, our tables and chairs were sitting on several inches of sand.


Most of our customers said they loved having the sand under their feet but it is more than likely that Waverley Council will be down tomorrow to put it all back on the beach. It's going to be a big job!

Winter comes to Bondi Beach

It was only two weeks ago we were crowing about how good the weather was. Well, winter has come right on cue at the beginning of June. According to the media this has been the roughest weather in quite a long time. The storm raged for 2 days with huge seas and a gale force southerly blowing in to Bondi Beach.


When the storm eased people couldn't believe what had happened to the beach.


The front of the Pavilion looks like there's been a snowstorm.


We don't often see Lush on Bondi looking like this !!


It's not surprising that we're closed !


This is how the main Pavilion steps look today.


All this sand was blown up here during the storm when it was soaking WET.


The steps in front of the Bondi Surf Club have just about completely gone.


This is the sea wall running up to North Bondi. Normally it's 2m high.


These seats on the promenade won't be being used for a while.


Here's the car park heading away from the Pavilion. It looks more like the snowfields than the beachfront.