Sunday 26th June 2006. The Bike Fair at Bondi Beach from 9am to 2pm was organised by Waverley Council.

You can click to see some great photos taken on Christmas Day 25th December 2005.

As usual the web site is a complete mystery, this year a small plane skywrites the slogan "Experience our world". It's quite difficult to print the actual programme.

You can click to see some great photos taken on Christmas Day 25th December 2003.

You can click to see a few photos taken on 17th August 2003.

The 25th FOTW was held on Sunday, September 14th 2003 and a few pictures of people and their kites are now on this site.

Previous events: The 24th annual FOTW was held at Bondi Beach on Sunday 9th September, 2001. The 2002 festival was postponed.

For all the technical details see Australian Kiteflyers Society web page.

Bronte as a beach is still much the same, but Bronte as a suburb is undergoing massive change. Recent developments include multi-level houses, and houses which present a brick wall and a roller door to the street.

To judge for yourself, see these recent pictures of Bronte.

The 2nd Annual Bondi Short Film Festival was held on Sat November 30th 2002, at the North Bondi RSL Club.
The festival director was Francis Coady, and all films were 7 minutes long and were sumbmitted on VHS tape. Unfortunately the web site for the festival production company is too unfriendly and slow to be linked from here.

The Bondi Beach Cole Classic is a 2km "Roughwater" Swim across Bondi Beach (Bay). The Swim attracts over 2,000 recreational swimmers and was held on Sunday, 3rd February 2002. The Race is a Community Event with proceeds being donated to the North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club.

This annual event was started by Graham Cole in 1983 and in 1995 he handed the running of the Swim over to his 3 Sons, Walter, Christopher & Nicholas Cole. See the Cole Classic web site (fast and simple, what a pleasure compared with other mindless local disasters) for full details and the entry form.

If you are planning a trip to Australia, or learning the local language, then this is the Quiz for you. Multiple choice questions and the answers are given at the end. What is a Tim Tam anyway?

A newly-formed group aims to protect the integrity of Bondi's famous icons, in particular The Bondi Bathers' Pavilion.

The initial two items for discussion are..
* Protecting the heritage of Bondi Pavilion from commercialisation and multi-national takeover.
* The public enjoyment of Bondi Beach and its environments, now and into the future.

Write to the friends at...
FOBP
Box 7428
Bondi Beach 2026
Or send an email to... The Friends of Bondi Pavilion for details or to be placed on the e-mailing list to recieve information about the pavilion and future meetings. Get in touch if you can help with a web site or would like to contribute on the committee.

Bondi Pavilion remains the traditional home of the festival, although events occur all over Sydney and some events this year have been moved from Bondi to Fox Studios. The festival ran from the 18th of January to 3rd February, 2002.

See daily papers or print adverts for details.

Special mention: the ever-popular nude night surfing competition is probably not being held this year.

Warning (6th January 2002): The festival's web site is an enigma. Attractive and minimalist but no programme of events. This web page is a complete laugh as the programme has not been posted yet. If they can't build a web page in this day and age, who would want to go??????

Update (20th January 2002): The festival's web site now has the 2002 programme.

Warning (24th Nov 2003): The Sydney Fringe Festival is no more.

Suzy Owens has written a song about Bondi - lying on the beach at North Bondi is better than going to work.

Check out my page about The Hunter and Suzy Owens Band.

Well, something amazing has happened. You may have thought Country and Western music was only played west of Parramatta but think again.

Mary Heard from Tamarama (the next beach south of Bondi) and her band the Midwest Obsession released their first CD titled Happy Ever After with a launch in a Newtown hotel on 4th March, 2001.

Mary Heard sings far more Western than Country, with a sound straight from West Texas. None of that sickly Nashville girly stuff, and none of the local "home amongst the gum trees" neither.

This is the real stuff, performed by musos who are capable and enthusiastic supporters of the genre. Kasey Chambers will be in second place once you've listened to this.

The CDs are still out there, but the band went into recess late in 2002.

Here is a new guide book on Bondi - written by local residents Caroline and Lee Cass. Lots of pictures and great local information about the beach, the pavilion and the early days of swimming and surfing. Seven easy walks to help you explore Bondi's history. Recently released and available now from Martin Smith's Bookshop , 3 Hall Street Bondi, Phone 9365-1482.

A Guide to Bondi Fashions and the Cafe Scene.