Sculpture by the Sea

Laura stayed at home to revise for a few exams coming up this week, so the rest of us headed for Bondi to walk around the Sculpture by the Sea event, which is now in its 10th year. This is a display of over 100 sculptures between Bondi and the next beach at Tamarama, with the artwork along the cliff paths, on the parkland at the headland between the beaches and also on Tamarama beach.

Traffic was heavy and parking took a while, but we eventually started at Tamarama beach and then walked towards Bondi. There was a wide variety of sculptures, most of which were interesting / impressive, although there were the usual oddities.

One of our favourites was the melting ice cream van, which had a cross lady (the artist?) hovering around all the time telling kids to get off it! There are some more photos here.

The cliff walk was lovely but very crowded and for much of it there was a slow crawl in single file both ways. We'll have to do this again sometime when it's less crowded as the path extends further down the coast to more beaches as well. By the time we reached Bondi the sun had gone in so after a quick look at the beach life (and a few shops) we headed back to the car and home again.