Bondi and Sculptures

Well, I finally managed to see the outdoor exhibition of sculptures that they have every year in Bondi. It is really such a beautiful setting. It is called Sculpture by the Sea and you walk along the coast walk from Bondi to Tamarama Beach. This is the 16th time. There is also a similar exhibition in Århus in Denmark apparently but I have never been.  If you are in Denmark this summer it is on from 1-30 of June under the patronage of HRH Crown Prince Fredrik and HRH Crown Princess Mary (or like hubby says, "our Mary", because she is Australian.)

Anyway it was a beautiful day and not too crowded. Tomorrow and Sunday will be terrible, I am sure. I even ran into some Swedes and had a little chat.

Twice I have taken visitors to this event before and dropped them off with the intention of meeting up with them along the walk but the parking has been impossible, and I have spent hours driving around further and further away without finding a spot. Here are a few of the sculptures. In the end my battery ran out so I bought the catalogue as well.

It was very funny the first time, when I heard of this Sculpture by the Sea, I thought it was a sandcastle competition. They can be fun too and I have seen some very good sand sculptures. In this case though, they are not made of sand but they are made from everything else. The crocodile for example is made by a remote indigenous community from Queensland and they have used wire, rope net, buoys etc to make it.

I will leave you with a little snippet that I overheard when listening to a conversation between two ladies having a smoko (it means having a break for a cigarette when you are working). One of them said out of the blue "Garry has a brain like a sieve"! I almost burst out laughing. The rest of the conversation made it clear that Garry was deliberately "forgetting" lots of things. Like taking the rubbish out and cleaning the coffee machine and other chores that they were supposed to be sharing.