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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: Vince B on December 30, 2006, 07:07:08 PM
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I was just shooting this beach scene and included a few people in the photo. When I got home I was surprized at what I had captured. I think photography is more rewarding that discussing training and how strong others are. What a waste of time. All the best to everyone in the New Year. Too bad some of you don't accept my offer to come to Sydney and train in my gym. Sydney is a great place if you like going to the beach. I will have to represent the board when I go bodysurfing at the many great beaches in Sydney. Most of the gals on Bondi and Coogee are from overseas at this time of year. We get zillions of backpackers here. Just about everyone covers up but some still go topless which is exactly what I do, too.
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Click on the words under the photos to view them full size. The first photo was taken about 6:30pm so not many still on Bronte Beach. This is a family beach and Tamarama and Bondi Beaches are just around the corners at the top of the photos. Coogee is around the corner going the other way to the right.
Here is a scene from Coogee for you fellows. Surf is much better at Bondi.
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Holy shit the chick in the first pic on the bottom right is BOTTOMLESS
I'm.... I'm going to tell!
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Kids can have a ball at the beach especially when the surf is big.
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Click on the words under the photos to view them full size. The first photo was taken about 6:30pm so not many still on Bronte Beach. This is a family beach and Tamarama and Bondi Beaches are just around the corners at the top of the photos. Coogee is around the corner going the other way to the right.
Here is a scene from Coogee for you fellows. Surf is much better at Bondi.
I see boobies! Why must you tempt us old man?
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Il come over and train with you vince the next time im on holiday :)
Im in New Zealand,love the libral aussie beaches,many nude ones around your area ?
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I love photography and sometimes try different angles with my G7.
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Blokes? Vince your Mr. Canada 1970! Quit with the Australian language crap!
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I love photography and sometimes try different angles with my G7.
old perv Vince tries for the up the skirt shots of 16 year old girls
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Blokes? Vince your Mr. Canada 1970! Quit with the Australian language crap!
bahahah--so true=--monster wanna pretend hes from another country--probably fakes the Aussie accent too.
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Sydney has a couple of nude beaches. I used to go to a couple of them. I heard the gay guys hang around a lot and that spoils it for me. Women look sexier with clothes on, by the way!
Here is a closeup for you blokes.
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I have lived longer in Australia than in Canada. When I visit my home town they ask me where I am from, yet in Sydney I have a strong Canadian accent. I am a citizen of both countries. I have lived in Sydney since January 1971. 'Blokes' and other words have their place in discourse. I won't ever be an Aussie but I am an Australian citizen.
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Sydney has a couple of nude beaches. I used to go to a couple of them. I heard the gay guys hang around a lot and that spoils it for me. Women look sexier with clothes on, by the way!
Here is a closeup for you blokes.
why do you even care if queers go there, too much competition for the meat?
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What a bunch of dickheads who assemble on Getbig!
Here is a sunset I captured on my way home.
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What a bunch of dickheads who assemble on Getbig!
Here is a sunset I captured on my way home.
stick with art because you're good at it...but drop the politics because you suck :)
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More shots.
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Backpackers from all over the world come to Sydney for our summer.
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Kids make a wonderful subject for photos. Nowadays one has to be careful who you take photos of. If you look at the photos it is clear they pretty much were oblivious of having any photos taken. That is why candid photos are so good.
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Clovelly is between Coogee and Bronte which are both south of Bondi Beach. Clovelly has a large car park next to it but look at the concrete surrounding that beach. Some people do scuba diving there.
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What a bunch of dickheads who assemble on Getbig!
Here is a sunset I captured on my way home.
Not bad here is one of mine!
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Another Clovelly view.
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Clovelly does have sand. Another 'family' beach.
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Closeup of the Windsor sunset with my G7.
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Coogee surf sucks. The waves break too close to the shore and you can get dumped. Heaps better beaches in Sydney for surfing but Coogee has a lot of nice gals. Too much seaweed, etc., in the wild surf there.
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Some locals walk along the beach in the mornings and evenings. You can walk from Bronte to Bondi along the coast and the mild breeze and beautiful scenes are wonderful. A great place to live.
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old perv Vince tries for the up the skirt shots of 16 year old girls
And whats wrong with that? ??? Are you gay or somthing :-*
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I love taking closeups of flowers.
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beautiful pix, Vince. Are the beaches there netted?
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Dee Why Beach is on the North part of Sydney. The water was cold that day so not many swimming. Lots of migrants go to the beaches while the locals wait for really hot weather. You can tell when lots of locals are at the beach because many take tents and beach umbrellas to protect against the ultraviolet rays.
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yeah i thought the one with kids was like soft kiddie porn but didnt want to be hated for pointing it out. the hibiscus however is a great shot.
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Only one beach with a net and that is Balmoral. I have some photos. They have nets out from some beaches that capture sharks. No one has been taken by a shark in Sydney since the 1930s. If sharks wanted to eat humans they would have an easy time of it. When you first swim at Bondi you are a bit scared and shadows and dark seaweed can cause alarm. Occasionally they sound an alarm if they sight a shark and everyone scrambles for the shore! I have never seen a shark at any beach in Australia and I used to live across from this beach.
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Aside from looking at the topless women, I'd rather punch my clown than waste a day on the beach. It always reminds me of a bunch of dead bodies doing nothing. What an odd event.
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You guys should take up bodysurfing. It is exhilerating and you feel great when you catch a wave and go right into the shore. I have caught waves and then stood up in ankle deep water. I like hanging out at the beach. The air is clean, the sand, surf and sun all make it a special place to be. When I get tired of looking at girls in bikinis I will stop going there!
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North Curl Curl is yet another beach in Sydney. This one is quiet but nice to hang out at.
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Freshwater Beach is another good surfing beach in the Northern Suburbs, just north of Manly. They have beach after great beach in Sydney. Quite an amazing place to live. There are about 4 million people living in Sydney.
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You just can't go up to people and chat them up. Most people are left alone when they are at the beach. Still, there are too many lonely people in big cities.
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A famous Duke from Hawaii came to Sydney about 100 years ago and was one of the first to surf there. About that time it was illegal to swim on Sydney beaches during most of the day! What a bunch of stiff shirts those policitians were in those days. They thought society would collapse if people saw others in swimming suits. So the throngs gathered on the beaches but no one went in for a swim until after 8 pm at night or early in the morning.
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Sometimes you can capture interesting subjects if you are in the right place at the right time.
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You just can't go up to people and chat them up. Most people are left alone when they are at the beach. Still, there are too many lonely people in big cities.
barbara bush told me many years ago..."you come into this world alone and leave it alone."
not everybody is addicted to people like you are :)
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Tamarama Beach is small but popular with the well to do. The beach season starts in September and goes through until about May.
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Famous Bondi Beach. Best beach in Sydney for surf and beautiful women.
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Another Bondi view taken in November.
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Bondi last year.
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When i was 10 years old a group of us kids went to Bondi we all went swimming and this is where the drama started i got caught in a rip and was being dragged out to sea, it was coming on dusk and i was being dragged out to sea,150 to 200 meters from the shaw, i thought i was fucking dead, then out of nowhere a life saver dragged me back to shore.This was 24 years ago and never got over it and have never been to the beach again.
Lifeguards deserve medals there heroes.
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Sometimes you capture a beautiful photo without trying. Composition, subject, colour and setting all perfect.
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They have a Sculpture by the Sea exhibit between Bondi and Tamarmara Beaches every year. A scene from 2005.
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View of Coogee Beach from the north.
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Most sculpture is rubbish at those displays. Here is a fine piece from 2005.
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awesome pics vince, ive always wanted to got to australia.
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Bondi is quite a large beach and lots of people enjoy walking up and down the boardwalk. This is a typical scene there.
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Thanks, John and others, I am just trying to share some images of where I live. Sydney is a beautiful city and has lots of beaches plus the most beautiful harbour. I have lived here for over 35 years and there are still some beaches I haven't gone to. Here is one I visited only this month for the first time.
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Another view of Turimetta Beach. It was windy and a bit cool that day so no one was swimming.
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Warriwood Beach is another off the beaten path beaches. Amazing place for beaches.
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Warriwood sand. Imagine being here. Beach after amazing beach to hang out at or swim at.
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Vince, it's time for your meds.
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Newport Beach in northern suburbs of Sydney.
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Mona Vale Beach. Then I am going out for New Years Eve. See you guys tomorrow.
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brutal estrogen
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??? ??? ??? ooooooooooook
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Sydney has a couple of nude beaches. I used to go to a couple of them. I heard the gay guys hang around a lot and that spoils it for me. Women look sexier with clothes on, by the way!
Here is a closeup for you blokes.
The gay guys spoil a lot with their sexual perversions...
Im not sure why its tolerated ???
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Great Stuff mate! The photography is Awesome. I pulled my wife away from what she was doing to look at the pics. She loved them. I lived on Coogee beach and trained at Giles Gym which was on the cliff. It has become something else now.
I am looking forward to coming back home for a visit soon!. Have a Great New Year!
Guy
www.fitness.video.net
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Hi Guy, I said hello to you at Golds Gym, Venice, in September 2000. We talked about your amazing calves.
I used to hang out at Coogee when Barry Hart owned the gym there. I never went inside Giles. They used to have a warm pool with ocean water there. Just a doorway remains of that structure.
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Fun in the surf at Coogee.
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Another view of the surf at the Coogee rock pool.
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Being young and alive.
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The Giles site at Coogee.
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I have posted images at 1200 X 1024 resolution. Click on the words under each photo to see them at the larger size. Feel free to use any images for desktop backgrounds. All the best in the New Year to everyone out there in the Irongame.
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was that the place where people were seeing imagery of the virgin mary? in those fences I believe it was an illusion
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Yes, people are gullible. Many still put flowers there. It is just a fence!
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hey Vince,
I spent 2 yrs living and working in Sydney. Spent many a weekend down at Bondi, Coogee and was living at Manly.
So spoilt for beachlife really.
Trained a number of times at Mitsos's gym but mainly trained at that 24 hr gym in the heart of the city. Can't remember the name - it's too many years ago now.
Then I ended up training down at a tiny little studio place just back from Manly beach.
I remember one time at bondi looking out at two whales 'frolicking' for a few hours then i heard on the news that one of them was caught up in a net or something and basically was dying but i believe it managed to free itself. I think that was 2001/02 sometime. If you recall that I hope memory serves and that the whale escaped.
Anyway - miss your beaches - great times.
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Me too, used to live there too same place, as badland, Manly beach. loved it.
Thx for the pictures.
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I lived in Manly many years ago right on the beach. The ex said sell and now that apartment is worth 2 million dollars. Arnold came to visit us there in 1974.
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Another view of Harbord.
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An almost empty beach somewhere in Baku National Park, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo on July 2006. You can only come to this place after approx. 2 hour hiking true jungle, or by boat. :)
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whats up the with homos in the last pics? ..vince take more ass pics..i want to see sluts in thongs.
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No pictures of a great white biting off the leg of a tourist?
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Great pixs Vince! Keep 'em coming!
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Shelly Beach near Manly. Lots of foreigners here.
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Nice gals here at Shelly Beach.
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Stunning blond in this photo.
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Alexxx, do you try to be a dickhead or does it come naturally to you? I was with my girlfriend when I took these photos. Guess I am wasting my time posting them here for you guys who live in cold places like Montreal. I spent a year there and another year at St Jean. I never enjoyed the 10 feet of snow that you get every year. That is why I prefer living in a sub-tropical place like Sydney.
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Alexxx, do you try to be a dickhead or does it come naturally to you? I was with my girlfriend when I took these photos. Guess I am wasting my time posting them here for you guys who live in cold places like Montreal. I spent a year there and another year at St Jean. I never enjoyed the 10 feet of snow that you get every year. That is why I prefer living in a sub-tropical place like Sydney.
Fine I finally got a reaction from you. Now go answer all the questions you keep ignoring and keep the pics coming.
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keep em coming..try to zoom in on some nice asses ;D
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Bryon Bay in Northern New South Wales is a great tourist town. Some of the best beaches in Australia up there. Great gals, too. 4 am here so I am going to bed.
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Bryon Bay in Northern New South Wales is a great tourist town. Some of the best beaches in Australia up there. Great gals, too. 4 am here so I am going to bed.
Have you heard of the town "Tugun"?
Lisa
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A lot of gorgeous pics Vince...thank you for sharing them. :)
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Vince, I took the liberty of zooming in on the pics you posted.
I must agree, the scenery is very nice.
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no beaches like this near my house :(
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Good thread, Vince. Thanks for the photos. A bit of a nice counter-point to the cold(ish) Canadian winter we've got going on. :)
/need to rotate a few of the pictures for the GB lads tho. my neck would appreciate it. best for the new year in the antipodes
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dont let vince fool you..sydney is EXPENSIVE...even the OS tourists say that....the beaches are little coves spread apart and crowded as heck and the water in the past has been unswimmable due to the efluent in it. sydney has major problems with ethnic gangs and is the gay capital of australia. car parking in the city will cost you $50-$75/hour.
now Australia has 2 spots that are a must see...perth and adelaide. pristine waters, literally 100s of km of unbroken white sand with the occassional person on them,...affordable and large enough to have everything...
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dont let vince fool you..sydney is EXPENSIVE...even the OS tourists say that....the beaches are little coves spread apart and crowded as heck and the water in the past has been unswimmable due to the efluent in it. sydney has major problems with ethnic gangs and is the gay capital of australia. car parking in the city will cost you $50-$75/hour.
now Australia has 2 spots that are a must see...perth and adelaide. pristine waters, literally 100s of km of unbroken white sand with the occassional person on them,...affordable and large enough to have everything...
where on earth can you go where there are no gays?
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where on earth can you go where there are no gays?
Heaven
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have another drink mary
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Gosh, a lot of misinformation about Sydney. Yes, it is an expensive place to live. Gas costs heaps and property, does, too. I hate paying for parking but the last time I looked it was a few dollars per hour in downtown Sydney. I take the train or bus into the CBD.
There was trouble a year ago at one of the beaches. Lots of resentment built up in Aussies over the years. They don't consider ethnic people as fair dinkum Aussies and I know that. Everyone more or less gets along over here because there is so much open space. There are plenty of beaches for everyone. I actually prefer busy beaches like Bondi but forget about parking near the beach. Same thing happens in Venice beach. The old days are gone when you could park there no worries. Muslim communities are not popular in Australia and it didn't help when a gang of them raped a girl. They got really long jail sentences and that caused trouble on both sides. So the Lebanese don't feel that they are Aussies even though they were born here. I understand that sentiment. The Aussies resent just about everyone from overseas. In recent years people have emigrated from Vietnam and now some countries in Africa. With each migration the older people become part of the scene whereas the newly arrived get some negative attention. If you go to some shopping centers such as Parramatta you will find it a melting pot of people from all over the world. I suppose that is the future and some are not happy about that.
The gay scene is more open here than perhaps in some other countries. It is similar to attitudes in San Francisco. I could care less about homosexuals because I long ago realized they are not a threat to me. I think many men are worried that gay men will come onto them. That is not what happens. So I can see there is resentment. I happened to have had a girlfriend who had a deceased gay brother and she had heaps of gay mates from America and Australia. They fall in love like the rest of us and I came to see them as individuals and not as anyone strange. Running a gym will make anyone tolerant because gay men do frequent gyms. I treat them like everyone else.
Yes, I have been to City Gym in the city that is a hang out for many gay men and things go on there that I would not like to see in my gym. So it is horses for courses and I guess we men have to accept that some men dig other men. That should mean there are more women for those of us who are straight. Then there is the lesbian community. They and I don't really get along so well for some reason!
I find the anti gay sentiments on Getbig by many regulars rather worrisome. What the heck is all that resentment? Maybe straight guys feel good when they can bash gay men. Ignorant men in Sydney used to bash gay men. That is not tolerated anymore so that is a good thing. I think we all can do a better job of respecting others and this includes their sexuality. Getbiggers also are anti fat and that is another worry. Who out there looked great before taking up bodybuilding? Therefore, we should all be tolerant of fat people and skinny people. It isn't so easy to reverse obesity. Oh, bodybuilders can control fatness levels but it is not so easy as you get older. In the old days I could lose 20 pounds in two weeks and get abs. Nowadays if I diet I lose muscle and remain without a washboard. So I tend to not bag anyone and never fat people.
Australia is a good place to live. Sydney is a huge city but it is still relatively safe to live in and I never worry about being attacked or mugged when in the city or the suburbs. People do their own thing and mostly ignor what others are doing. There is lots of space for everyone here and you just have to work hard to get ahead.
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Here is Cronulla Beach. Part of it, anyway. Just another beach in the Southern suburbs of Sydney.
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Another shot of Cronulla.
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Getbiggers also are anti fat and that is another worry. Who out there looked great before taking up bodybuilding? Therefore, we should all be tolerant of fat people and skinny people. It isn't so easy to reverse obesity. Oh, bodybuilders can control fatness levels but it is not so easy as you get older. In the old days I could lose 20 pounds in two weeks and get abs. Nowadays if I diet I lose muscle and remain without a washboard. So I tend to not bag anyone and never fat people.
I agree except most getbiggers are "anti-fat" only really to those who are delusional about their body composition i.e. a fat guy thinking he has as much muscle as jay cutler becuase he is 300 pounds and jay cutler walks on stage around 275 pounds.
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thanks vince for the comments and photo's, happy new year!
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You must have missed my earlier post...have you heard of the city "Tugun"?
lisa
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I once slept near Coolangatta airport in my car because I couldn't find a motel on the Gold Coast.
Here is a photo from Kirra Beach nearby.
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Amazing surfing beach at Coolangatta. The word means 'beautiful sight' in Aboriginee.
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Typical beach scene at Coolangatta.
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Coolangatta from the air.
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Here is an old guy thinking he still has what it takes to feel young! Coolangatta was a nice place to visit. Cheap motels, too.
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When the lifeguards sight a shark they sound a siren and everyone quickly gets out of the water.
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I will check Tugun Beach when I visit Queensland again. It is about a 12 hour drive north of Sydney.
Photos of Tugan Beach here: http://www.tugunbeach.com/
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Avoca Beach in on the Central Coast which is about an hour north of Sydney.
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Girls were quite brave and jumped off this cliff into the rough surf. I did it once and it was quite dangerous. I slid off some slippery rocks in the water! It is about 15 feet to the water. Doesn't seem like much but not everyone could do this. You had to wait for the surf to swell underneath so you didn't hit the rocks. Then you had to climb up the wall when the surf calmed down. Crazy thing to do, really, but I had to do it once.
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Always some local kid who is fearless and a showoff!
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See, girls have guts. Aussie girls are quite game for sports. Many take up surfboard riding.
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I couldn't believe some were swimming in this dangerous surf. You have to know what you are doing or you can get battered and bruised.
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In Australia just about every schoolkid can swim because they teach lifesaving to them as part of sport each year. I used to teach high school PE and we were the first school in NSW that taught senior boys surf lifesaving. Heck, I am not that good at swimming but I managed to get a group of no-hopers to pass their surf bronze way back in 1975 at Killarney Heights High School.
They let kids into the surf with floating objects. Quite dangerous if you are swimming and they come in and hit you. They don't allow those things in the surf in California where others are swimming.
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Here is a group in the water after jumping off that cliff. Good fun for the teenagers there. I think I was the only older guy to do that leap that day. I swear time stopped during the jump and it seemed like a long fall.
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It even took guts to leap in from this lower ledge.
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We have a Copacabana Beach on the Central Coast. Not far from Avoca Beach.
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Look at the surf at Byron Bay. Wategoes is a great beach.
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Who took the picture?
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Byron is a must visit if you love the surf.
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My ex girlfriend Heather took the photo of me. She dumped me for a truck driver.
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Look at the beauty of Byron Bay. Can you people see yourself here under the palms?
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Bryon Bay is a subtropical paradise. If it were in Florida it would be just a bit north of Miami. Sydney is on the same lattitude as Northern Florida and LA.
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You can grow anything near the beach in Byron Bay.
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You can grow anything near the beach in Byron Bay.
Try to grow some ozone layer there, I have heard that you have a shortage of that down there. It really doesn't show in the pictures, but if you read a statistic of the skin cancer in Australia, you get the different picture of your beach life. I bet that problem isn't appreciate there at the way it should be. Your average sun lotion protective factor should be something like 50 000...
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Everyone is aware of skin cancer. The tourists seem oblivious. Many here sit in little tents on the beach or under umbrellas. We use lotion on our faces and tender areas and many of us wear surf shirts as well. I have had a skin cancer burned off. Also, as people age they lose proteins in their skin that protect them from the sun. The sun tends to be very bright in Australia. About 20 years ago there was a revolution and a lot of the women went topless on the beaches. Nowadays the locals cover up because of worries about skin cancer. Kids have coverings and hats when they go out in the sun.
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I don't particularly fancy slender women. I prefer pears and shapely women. Here is a shot for the guys who like bigger women.
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Goo f**k yo selffffffffffffff Basile. No un giv a sit,
fucc you u jerk off, who are you to talk with that piece of crap you call a body.
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Seems someone posted a message using Melvin's account. It was deleted so I will erase the response.
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Goo f**k yo selffffffffffffff Basile. No un giv a sit,
Great thread...and then Getbig's soul brother #1 chimes in with his usual (drunk?) non(sensical)-sequitur. Ah well, I guess 2007 will look a lot like 2006 around here.
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Melvin "Vince" Goodrum is always good for a laugh. When there aren't threads bagging that stooge this place is the poorer for it. Here is a classic pose from last year that Venom Vince showed us at the Mountaineer.
that pose i name "the diarrhea march"
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Thanks for the softcore porn, Vince.
Seriously, great pics. I live in Sydney (5 minutes from Manly) and only go to the beach when on holiday in another state. Definitely not a natural beach goer, though I don't mind it.
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dont let vince fool you..sydney is EXPENSIVE...even the OS tourists say that....the beaches are little coves spread apart and crowded as heck and the water in the past has been unswimmable due to the efluent in it. sydney has major problems with ethnic gangs and is the gay capital of australia. car parking in the city will cost you $50-$75/hour.
now Australia has 2 spots that are a must see...perth and adelaide. pristine waters, literally 100s of km of unbroken white sand with the occassional person on them,...affordable and large enough to have everything...
I fail to see what's a must see in Adelaide. Since they lost the grand prix to Albert Park, there's nothing significant attracting overseas visitors. Don't get me wrong, it's a beautiful city and very close knit and family orientated, half my family live there.
After backpacking around most of Oz, my picks for must see places and beaches are;
Mission beach
Airlie beach for backpacker mayhem
Cable Beach in Broome
Kakadu
Margaret river just south of Perth
Kings canyon and..
Billy's Beach house on the Gold Coast
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I fail to see what's a must see in Adelaide. Since they lost the grand prix to Albert Park, there's nothing significant attracting overseas visitors. Don't get me wrong, it's a beautiful city and very close knit and family orientated, half my family live there.
After backpacking around most of Oz, my picks for must see places and beaches are;
Mission beach
Airlie beach for backpacker mayhem
Cable Beach in Broome
Kakadu
Margaret river just south of Perth
Kings canyon and..
Billy's Beach house on the Gold Coast
I live in Adelaide, its a great place if you want to retire. We dont have bad traffic and its still very laid back here. As for overseas tourists about the only attraction we have left is our wine tours and some art festivals that nobody here really cares about.
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My sister used to live at tugun lisa.
Isn't a town but a suburb of the gold coast down the south end. Is a nice place if you live on the beach side of the highway but if you live on the western side of the highway you are right next to the airport.
Much nicer up the road at currumbin (thats where my sister lives now).
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Vince is right about the summer in sydney... it really is a fvck-fest with the foreign tourists.
I think some of their families would be horrified if they knew what they get up to with other tourists and aussie guys when they come over here - nobody to tell on them I guess helps to spread their legs pretty quick.
I can generally tell pretty much where a tourist is from as soon as they start talking to me now I've met so many...
I like the little irish girls the best personally... but i'm into shrimps that like to drink beer!
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My sister used to live at tugun lisa.
Isn't a town but a suburb of the gold coast down the south end. Is a nice place if you live on the beach side of the highway but if you live on the western side of the highway you are right next to the airport.
Much nicer up the road at currumbin (thats where my sister lives now).
Hans used to own a little gym there in the late 70's early 80's. I was rereading his bio and forgot about all he did there...very interesting.
Lisa
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There was a little gym for sale years ago at Palm Beach on the Gold Coast. I had a look but it wasn't my idea of a good gym. Poor location there as the population is spread out up and down the coast. Bad place for the gym business.
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Back to the babes! Tamarama Beach while the Sculpture by the Sea exhibit was on in November. The gals would go to the beach and some topless when there were thousands of people going past and many shooting photos. All is fair in photography as they say if you are out in a public place.
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Like I said, some gals takes their tops off. Doesn't bother me.
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Bondi is the best. It is a hassle finding parking near any of these beaches in the summer.
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I know some of you perves wanted to zoom in on that topless gal. So here you are.
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How about some fish and chips after a long day at the beach?
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This is what Getbiggers would be doing if they were at Bondi Beach.
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Lifeguards cover up when on duty. Those good old days of bronzed guards have gone. Too many worry about skin cancers. I think you can buy this outfit. Good for a pose back in LA!
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If you haven't got the build just buy a flash car.
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After the beach you can mix with the Europeans at the Bondi Hotel. I have been in Sydney for 36 years but have had a beer there only once.
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Where most of the 1980 Olympia contestants stayed. They didn't believe me when I told them Arnold was enterring. He and Zane stayed downtown at the Hilton, I think. That place is being done up for apartments, perhaps.
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A lot of people walk or run along the boardwalk at Bondi. I think someone called me a perve for shooting this photo of the girl running with her dog. The things I do to get photos for this place.
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There are murals painted all along the walkway at the south end on Bondi.
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There are murals painted all along the walkway at the south end on Bondi.
Don't you hate those fucking gangbangers and their fucking spray painting Vince? I think they should be shot! >:(
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Better example of the murals.
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Some of that graffiti is quite good. Most of it is left alone so that prevents others from putting offensive stuff up.
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Some of that graffiti is quite good. Most of it is left alone so that prevents others from putting offensive stuff up.
Yes, some of it is nice. Still illegal though. Some punks painted the side of my gym two months ago >:( Sorry for the hijack Vince, I like your thread.
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Very cool pics, man. Thanks for sharing.
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Now up to Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast in Queensland. It takes about 12 hours to drive up there from Sydney. It is on the same lattitude as Miami in Florida. Lot of tourists go there. I was a bit disappointed with Surfers. More hype than reality. School kids go there by the thousands in December at the end of their high school.
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Now something for our very own True Adonis!
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I love sculpture. This is a replica of the original David right there in Surfers Paradise. The most impressive thing in that city. It is about 13 feet high.
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Good detail in the muscles. Well done Michaelangelo.
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Another view to inspire Adonis!
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Some back detail.
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This sculpture proves you don't have to be huge to look impressive.
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Look at how the sculptor got the veins in marble. A magnificent work.
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Hand detail.
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Hair detail.
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Vince, you need to come to NYC....nothing else counts :)
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There are cafes all around this sculpture so people can sit here and enjoy the work.
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Yes, I need to visit the art galleries in America. The Getty in LA and the Guggenheim in New York. Then off to the Louvre in Paris, then Rome, and finally Athens!
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I chose to live in a country where there are lots of palm trees.
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Broadbeach is next to Surfers Paradise. Lots of nice places to shop up here.
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you need to keep posting more topless girls pic..we don't really care about anything else
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Hey, I should be working for the tourist department! I will see what I can find in the archives for you guys that are in the middle of winter. The nice thing about Sydney is that flowers bloom every month of the year here. I won't bore you with my flower photos!
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Here you go. What I do for the hapless getbiggers.
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More art this time. Byron Bay, of course.
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Here you go. What I do for the hapless getbiggers.
thanks Vince, we appreciate that you go to the beach to take pictures of topless girls for us.
In some countries you could be arrested for that
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The Gold Coast's new eye sore, the Q1. Warwick Capper put the penthouse on the market last year for $8 million..
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They used to be very conservative in Australia but things became more liberal over the last 30 years. You can go topless on any beach here in Australia but most beaches the gals cover up. On Bondi, Manly and Coogee the tourists feel free to do what they like. Many from Germany and Scandinavia don't feel inhibited so go topless. Maybe it helps to be away from home on the other side of the world.
Some guys have gone on the beach and taken photos of topless girls and got arrested for it in Sydney last year. However, I doubt anyone can do anything about tourists and anyone else snapping photos of the beach from the sidewalks near the beach. If a gal is topless there then so what? The gals at Tamarama Beach during the sculpture show would have seen the thousands of people passing by up on the hill and many of them were pointing cameras at the beach. With small digital cameras you don't have to hold the camera at eye level and so no one knows what the photographer is shooting.
To be frank, most nude bodies are not exciting at all. I think it is the idea that some are partly nude that is exciting. I am sure almost all men look. So a photo is really a record of particular glances. If women believe it is bad to show flesh they shouldn't go to public beaches and expose themselves. Heck, America is still hung up on nudity. I waited and waited for things to change there but they never did. That is partly because you elect too many officials who then clean up on things like nudity and prostitution. There is a lusty core in humans that survive all revolutions but the politicians always bend to pressure groups and impose restrictions on the freedom of individuals.
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I consider myself a photographer and humans are an interesting subject and the beach is a special place. I think my images reflect that I take a wide range of photos and not just semi-nude ladies. Occasionally one takes exceptional images that just happen to have topless girls in them. I have to go to my gym. I will continue this thread later.
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paragraphs vince, paragraphs... much easier to read
I agree with the covered up bit.. what you can't see adds mystery and intrigue..
I like the white pointers and the bronze whalers too, like most guys however they should keep the swimsuit on between the flags. Explaining it to my daughter is difficult and I'm running out of reasons to explain to my wife why we always set up near the topless girlies..
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One more of Tamarama Beach from 2004.
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Tokyo Joe had the same problem I had. Whenever I went to Bondi years ago I was always surrounded by topless chicks. I swear it was sexual harrassment!
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Great photos Vince...I want to move to Australia.
That condo highrise is great!
Australians are more opened minded, so the gay thing is no big deal, cousins are Aussies.
Gay guys do not mess everything up, try doing your next contest with a haircut from a straight guy. The gay guys know how to cut a bodybuilders hair.. this from a bodybuilder.
Bigdumbell knows his Hibiscus...color me shocked!
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I grew up in australia and still travel to Australia a lot becuz my fiancee is Australian. All i got to say is:
CALIFORNIA OWNS ALL OF AUSTRALIA. Scenery, girls, people's attitude, partying, everything is better in Cali.
Australian people have got to be the most annoying people in the world. And this comes from an Australian citizen.
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I grew up in australia and still travel to Australia a lot becuz my fiancee is Australian. All i got to say is:
CALIFORNIA OWNS ALL OF AUSTRALIA. Scenery, girls, people's attitude, partying, everything is better in Cali.
Australian people have got to be the most annoying people in the world. And this comes from an Australian citizen.
oh boy, which part of australia did you grow up in?
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I grew up in australia and still travel to Australia a lot becuz my fiancee is Australian. All i got to say is:
CALIFORNIA OWNS ALL OF AUSTRALIA. Scenery, girls, people's attitude, partying, everything is better in Cali.
Australian people have got to be the most annoying people in the world. And this comes from an Australian citizen.
Most annoying??? ..you obviously haven't been to France..
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I grew up in australia and still travel to Australia a lot becuz my fiancee is Australian. All i got to say is:
CALIFORNIA OWNS ALL OF AUSTRALIA. Scenery, girls, people's attitude, partying, everything is better in Cali.
Australian people have got to be the most annoying people in the world. And this comes from an Australian citizen.
We have our fair share of dickheads but in what way are we all annoying?
Ive been to Cali. I liked it but what ruins it is the smog and the poverty.
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We have our fair share of dickheads but in what way are we all annoying?
Ive been to Cali. I liked it but what ruins it is the smog and the poverty.
kind of a generalisation to compare the ENTIRE country of australia to southern cali too don't you think?
fair enough to compare the northern beaches to cali or bondi to cali becasue they are similar climates/scenes.
I'm curious to see where he grew up...
I like cali too btw...