Watson Bay to Bondi Beach

On the day that 16-year-old Jessica Watson sailed back into the Sydney Harbour after her solo world round trip in her pink yacht, we walked from the Gap in Watson Bay to the famous Bondi Beach along the track that hugs the cliffs in Sydney's beautiful eastern suburbs. On the left, we could observe a flotilla of boats sailing out on the turquoise blue waters of the Tasman Sea to escort back Australia's latest teen hero. On the right, the Sydney Harbour was teeming with more watercraft.

Along the track from the Gap to the Lighthouse Reserve and further down in Dover Heights, walkers and tourists, some of them with binoculars, were peering out to the sea at a distant cluster of  boats,  which had circled a seemingly stationary pink speck that we surmised was Jessica's yacht. During the whole time that the cluster was in our field of vision, it did not seem to move an inch.

The Watson Bay to Bondi Beach walk, along with Manly to the Spit and Bondi to Clovelly walks, must rank among Sydney's three most beautiful walks. The trail itself is easy with no sharp elevations, and is less than nine kilometers long. At the Bondi Beach, instead of hopping onto a Sydney bus, we decided to keep pushing on foot along Bondi Road to the nearest train station at Bondi Junction, notching up another couple of kilometers.

To get to Watson Bay, buy a return train ticket from your nearest train station to Bondi Beach, get off at Edge Cliff station and catch 324 or 325 bus from Stand C to Watson Bay. The bus ride takes around half an hour.  You can use the train ticket to catch a bus from Bondi Beach to Bondi Junction.

I took a few pictures with my old, automatic Sony DSC-W70 along the way, which you can see below.

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