Bondi Beach has this week been transformed into the Bondi Bergstation, a replica of a European Alpine Village, as part of the Winter Festival. It features a 500 square metre outdoor ice skating rink overlooking the Pacific Ocean. There are also a number of ski huts and chalets serving alpine delicacies such as Goulash, German Bratwurst, Pretzels, Gluhwein, and Schnapps. I was there when the ice was cleared for a brief performance by a young skater before regular skaters slowly returned to the rink, late in the afternoon and continuing into the night.
These are really great!
ReplyDeletelovely!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful!
ReplyDeleteLooks funny to see ice there...
ReplyDeleteWe just booked our flights to Sydney... :)
Have a great week ahead!
How "cool" is that!!?
ReplyDeleteMy kids, who live in Bondi, had a picture on their blog of my grandson ICEskating. Now I understand where!
Thank you.
That is so terrific! Not what many of us would expect to see in Sydney! I love it! Hope you have a great week!
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Didn't know you could do outdoor ice skating down under, cool!
ReplyDeleteThis is pretty wierd to see. I guess our winters are not cold enough for many. On Sunday it was 19C. I bet a lot of energy was taken to keep the ice frozen.
ReplyDeleteSuch a wonderful backdrop. Is this in front of the pavilion?
I didn't know you had an ice rink at Bondi - looks like great fun.
ReplyDeleteCheers.
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Julie, it was up on the hill, just south of the Bondi Pavilion.
ReplyDeleteHah! A friend and I had spent the afternoon up the southern pylon of the SHB and took shots of the ship berthed at Barangaroo as well. Small world, eh?
ReplyDeleteIf this is set up on the sloping greensward, then there must be a lot of supports to enable it be have a horizontal rink!!
Beautiful photos, esp. enlarged. Nice light and shadows. I'm surprised more people aren't out the skating...I would be...
ReplyDeleteCarol, there were actually a lot more people skating out there on Saturday. My other shots were just a sea of people and you couldn't see the scenic views behind them. I happened to be there when they took a break for a brief performance by the young girl in the first shot and the next shot was taken when everyone just returned to the ice.
ReplyDeleteGreat pix from " winter wonderland".
ReplyDeleteSome Ruby there too, suitable for Ruby Tuesday.
how awesome. such a contrasts of the beach and ice. looks a lot nicer and open than the cook philip park one :-)
ReplyDeleteOh wicked! That is so cool J-Bar. If only it was there in November when I come and visit Sydney :)
ReplyDeleteroweriazIt seems so strange seeing people on ice...we are in the middle of a very hot and humid summer...loking forward to wool socks and mittens.
ReplyDeletesigh...what else to say than thank you for this much needed escape... and Glühwein...have to wait further four months until it is again sold over here. Please have a great Tuesday.
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That looks like so much fun. I forget that you are in winter while we are in summer.
ReplyDeleteThe Alps seem like paradise set against the gorgeous Sydney bayside. I couldn't think of a nicer vacation spot, Switzerland and Oz wrapped up as one. Nice!
ReplyDeletePretty cool. Enjoying some skating while the sun is up.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful shots.
ReplyDeleteFantastic photo.
ReplyDeletewith all the heat as of late I wish we where having a winter festival.
ReplyDeleteHow fun -- and it may be winter,but I notice your sky is still bright blue. That little girl is having the time of her life isn't she?
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful setting for ice skating...wow! It's SO hard to imagine that you are in the winter season when we are cooking here in southern California! Isn't nature curious?!
ReplyDeleteInteresting. I can't really see the point of this festival. I still have some from the CBD one to put up. This is even stranger - at least it was miserable and raining for most of the time it was at St Mary's.
ReplyDeleteFun shots. I don't think of Australia as being cold enough for an outdoor skating rink, but apparently in the winter it must be.
ReplyDeleteIt is a beautiful spot for a skate! I must admit that outdoor winter sports is not what I expect to see in Australia. Nice to have a bit of old Europe in your winter.
ReplyDeleteAI, Australia has variations in temperature and climate across the continent. Places like Hobart and Canberra can be very cold in winter, while places like Darwin and Alice Springs are hot all year round. Sydney sits somewhere in between.
ReplyDeleteAmazing!
ReplyDeleteVery nice Ice Rink.
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that is wonderful!
ReplyDeleteJBar: Neat shots at the early winter ice rink. You have something attached to the comment entry. Please try to have it removed.
ReplyDeleteI believe I swam once in Bondi waters. V cold for my asian body. But I loved it!
ReplyDeleteVery beautiful and interesting too!
ReplyDeleteGreat views.
Hi,
ReplyDeletebelle queste foto.... con quersto caldo un pò di ghiaccio non ci starebbe male !!
Buona giornata :-))
That looks so strange to me, ice skating in the middle of the summer, lol !
ReplyDeleteFantastic - wish I were there!
ReplyDeleteGreat pictures.
ReplyDeletegreat shots. i missed Sydney.
ReplyDeleteVery strange sight in Australia, which is as un-Alpine as it gets.
ReplyDeleteIce on the beach does seem strange
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by!
ReplyDeleteAnd what lovely images of yr beautiful city (I've scrolled down a lot!).
I was fortunate enough to visit Aus & NZ in the Spring & put on quite a lot of weight from all the great cuisine I came across! If you're curious as to my current body shape (despite desperate dieting), pop over to my current post!!
LOLA:)
PS Mine is HERE. Hope you can join me! And I'll do my best to return to yr lovely blog as often as time permits!
Hi Jim, What a wonderful blog you have here, so colourful and bright, and your photos are great.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your visit and your kind comments on my Cream of the Crop.
What an interesting contrast of the wintry ice rink and that gorgeus ocean water. Nice capture of the skater too!
ReplyDeleteSomehow, 'Bondi' and 'ice' are not two words I would ever have put together!
ReplyDeleteMust be fun to wander around sampling all the good eats!
ReplyDeleteNever a dull moment in your homeTown!
ReplyDeleteAs long as they don't spray the CHEMTRAILS that heat up the atmosphere and melt the snow caps, then the ice rink will be ok.
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WOW, So cool. It's summer here so at first i was confused.
ReplyDeleteGreat shots.
skating, when it is summer....then I realised, you have winter. :)
ReplyDeleteWow that would have been quite a sight.
ReplyDeleteThat's quite a sight! The winter festival sounds good. I miss eating some of those German foods.
ReplyDeletewhat fun it looks like they are having
ReplyDeleteSURPRENANT ;)
ReplyDeleteThere doesn't seem to be any end of festivals in Sydney at the moment.
ReplyDelete«Louis» wonders how stable these modern cruise ships are in rough seas - they all look so top-heavy.
ReplyDeleteHere's some images «Louis» got of Queen Mary 2 when she called on San Francisco in 2007.