26/7/08
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NEIGHBOURHOOD
NEWS
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CYBERBONDI
SITE NEWS
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THE "STRIP" STRUTS ITS STUFF
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The newly-planted line of palm trees
along the centre strip of Campbell Parade, Bondi Beach,
have pulled together what used to be a streetscape wasteland.
Unlike
the attempts to improve the look of Hall Street - which
hardly looks any different to how it was before the
Council's efforts at beautification began many months
ago - Campbell Parade is now a handsome boulevard, befitting
Australia's premier beach.
The
$3.1-million upgrade of the Campbell Parade area is
a joint project of Waverley Council and the Federal
Government
The
project includes widening footpaths, upgrading storm-water
drainage, adding 350 metres of median fencing, and constructing
new kerb and guttering.
Once
this is done perhaps the Council might think about providing
more accessible bus stops along "The Strip"
Some years ago the bus-stop outside the southern end
of Birrigal Reserve was removed and many people now
find it inconvenient to have to walk all the way up
to Notts Avenue and then cross it to reach the next
bus-stop in Campbell Parade.
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JULY
2008:
LAUNCH OF CYBERPADDO & CYBEREASTERN SUBURBS
PLUS iPHONE CONNECTION
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WITH
the launch of www.cyberpaddo.com.au
we now cover virtually all of Sydney's Eastern
Suburbs
Geographically,
CyberPaddo covers the entire munipality of Woollahra,
next to CyberBondi's territory of the munipality
of Waverley. Together, the two sites come under
the umbrella of www.cybereasternsububurbs.com.au
CyberBondi
could be described as the "Beachside"
Eastern Suburbs while CyberPaddo covers the Harbourside
Eastern Suburbs.
Together,
the two sites contain ove 9,500 local businesses
and organisations with continuous updating of
their details.
Each
business is connected to a Google map. There are
also links to its URL and email details, if they
are available.
Talking
avitars now tell you about each business. Business
owners can ask us to customise what their avitar
says. We can also arrange for their avitar to
use their own voice or the voice of a staff member..
We
welcome your input about the sites, and also welcome
new information about businesses that are not
yet included. Please email us at info@cyberbondi.com.au.
iPHONE
Our
sites are particularly suited for use on iPHONES
because each page is very low on kilobytes, thus
saving telephone costs. You can also locate free
Wireless (wi-fi) hot spots in Bondi
and Paddington. Just go to SIMPLE SEARCH in the
navbar at the top of this page and key in wi-fi,
or simply click HERE.
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TALKING
AVATARS TELL YOU
WHAT EVERY BONDI BUSINESS DOES
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A
team of talking Avatars has joined CyberBondi
to tell you about each of the 5,000-odd businesses
listed in our site.
Just
click on any business type in our Plaza (such
as SPORT or FASHION, RESTAURANTS or DENTAL etc
and choose which business you want (or go to
SIMPLE SEARCH and key in the name or type of
business you want).
As
well as phone numbers and address, you will
see a row of buttons. Click on the button marked
HEAR and you will hear and see the avatar.
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Message
to Bondi-Waverley Businesses
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At
present the Avatars have either American or
English accents, but any business owner can
have a special, tailor-made Avatar with a 3-D
photo of him or herself, set against a photo
of their business - and talking with their own
voice. Just contact CyberBondi at info@cyberbondi.com.au
Another
button takes you to a Google map showing the
location of each business in the site.
A
third button takes you to the website and email
address of each business.
To
ensure we are giving you the most up-to-date
information possible about businesses and organisations
in the area, CyberBondi constantly checks and
updates the area.
We
also welcome your input. If you know of a new
business in the area, or if you know of a business
that has moved or closed, please contact us.
And if you are the owner or manager of a business
and you want us and our Avatars to say something
different about what you do, please contacts
us: info@cyberbondi.com.au
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KITES
AND KIN
SPOUSES
OF APEC WORLD LEADERS VISIT BONDI
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POLICE
helicopters growled overhead, multi-coloured kites fluttered
over the sea, the Navy hovered around offshore, as Sydney's
Bondi Beach played host to two big events on Sunday.
It
was the annual Festival of the Winds, and also the day
the spouses of the Asia Pacific Economic Conference
(APEC) world leaders came to Bondi.
Arriving in a heavily-guarded motorcade to lunch at
the Icebergs Dining Room restaurant, the spouses enjoyed
a gourmet three-course Mediterranean-style seafood meal,
served up by Icebergs executive chef Robert Marchetti.
The
APEC "spouses' day out" was the idea of Janette
Howard, wife of Prime Minister, John Howard, who chose
Australia's most famous beach to showcase the national
surf-and-sun lifestyle.
Fortunately,
her occasion coincided with the annual Festival of the
Winds, which added to the spectacle her guests enjoyed
from the windows of the "two hats" Icebergs
restaurant above the Bondi Baths.
As the motorcade swept down Bondi Roadarrived and turned
into Notts Avenue (CYBERBONDI'S own street, which had
been closed off for the day), the sun obligingly came
out and the rainy sky turned blue.
The party spent two hours at the restaurant and posed
for a photo opprotunity for the many TV cameras and
news photographers.
To
some of the older members of the Icebergs Swimming Club
the event was remiscent of the visit by the Queen to
Bondi back in 1954.
She viewed the beach from a special plinth and did not
venture down on to the sand to dip her toes in the ocean
- unlike some of the Japanese APEC advisers who wandered
down to the water, rolled up their trouser legs and
went for a paddle.
LATE
NEWS: The following day, Monday, three humpbacked whales
arrived to frolick at Bondi on their migration south.
Perhaps they felt the coast was now clear.

Cyberbondi's street gets ready for
the APEC motorcade

The
lead cop arrives

Here
they come!

Motorcade
entering Icebergs

Posse of police cyclists

Off they go home!
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The
Bondi Icebergs Club
- the APEC spouses lunched
at the top-floor Icebergs Restaurant
 Icebergs
Club and Pool

View
from Icebergs' Dining Room
where APEC spouses lucn

The view of Bondi beach the APEC
spouses see while lunching

Kites
at the Festival of the Winds

Police
prepare to line up along the footpath, backs
to the street, to watch for snipers as the motorcade
prepares to set off back to the CBD
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Local News 13/8/07
CAMPBELL
PARADE UPGRADE CAUSES CONFLICT

Artist's impression of
the proposed facelift
Bondi
Beach's Campbell Parade is to have a $3.1 million
facelift - but not everyone is happy, reports
JESSICA KEOGH
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"THEY'VE
put the nail in our retail coffin"
said Max Siano, vice-president of the
Bondi Chamber of Commerce.
Max, who owns Max's Shoes on Bondi Beach's
famous "Strip", was commenting
on the planned upgrade of the eastern
side of Campbell Parade, jointly funded
by Waverley Council and the Federal Government.
The upgrade work is due to start soon
(see below).
But retailers along the Strip are less
than enthusiastic about the upgrade.
Max described it as "a painful, half-hearted
affair."
Speaking as spokesman for business in
the area, Max said: "We haven't been
consulted. If only the council had asked
us, we could have helped them plan it
properly. We are just as eager to upgrade
as they are."
Other business-owners along the Strip
shared Max's concerns. A particular worry
to them is the way Westfield at Bondi
Junction is attracting customers away
from them.
"Westfield has 3000 or so free parking
places," said one retailer. "All
we have is parking metres. Westfield is
sucking customers away from us."
The council recently suspended some parking
meters over the weekend during the winter
months, recognising the concerns of businesses
along the strip.
"But the meters go back on again
during the week," the retailer pointed
out. "It's all very well to attract
visitors over the weekend - but we operate
a seven-day-a-week business. Who's going
to come back once they get booked by the
piranhas? Once bitten, twice shy."
"Nothing is being done to promote
the beach, and no consultation between
the Council and businesses like mine,"
said Patrick Moritz, owner of the Lamrock
Café, a Strip landmark for over
20 years.
Several retailers said that the number
of people visiting Bondi was dwindling.
Some
shopkeepers
fear that unemployment and business failure
are imminent. "Business is terrible
at the moment," one commented.
Some
businesses are concerned about the disruption
the upgrade works will cause. Already
there are complaints from retailers in
Hall Street about they way the new footpath
works are hurting their businesses.
"The council has got carried away
with its beautification," said another
Campbell Parade shopkeeper, "but
we have other issues. We have invested
time and money in the area. But we are
being left out in the cold. I get the
Impression that the council is anti-business."
However, other business-owners acknowledged
that recent efforts to draw the public
to Bondi during the winter months had
shown promise. "But there's no Bondi
Boom," commented another.
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12/6/07
DISAPPEARING
BEACH DISAPPEARS AGAIN!
Now
you see it now you dont.
The recent storm has washed away McKenzies
Beach again.
(We
hope you took our advice and visited
it while it was there. See the BEFORE
photo below and our earlier story about
its reappearance.)
A
great pity, for it was a lovely little
beach.
Now
we will have to wait who knows
how long? before it reappears.
The
tide giveth, the storm taketh away,
blessed be the name of the southerly.
AFTER

BEFORE

McKenzie's Beach
29/5/07
OUR
DISAPPEARING BEACH RETURNS
You
may have read in the Wentworth Courier
recently about the reappearance
of McKenzies Beach (or, if you walk
or jog round the coastal walkway, you
will have no doubt seen the new
beach which has suddenly materialised
between Bondi and Tamarama).
To
have a new beach on Sydneys eastern
coastline is no small thing.
And
it a very nice little beach, too (as our
photo shows).
Indeed,
if it would only stay where it is, it
would quickly become one of Sydneys
most popular beaches a boutique
beach if you like.
But
it wont.
For
McKenzies Beach is a cyclical phenomenon.
It waxes and wanes (and disappears) as
the seasons come and go.
Experts
say that it is mainly a winter beach.
However,
it does not reappear every year or each
winter.
This
year it is particularly large, with a
broad sweep of sand that is perhaps 80
or more metres across, and 20 or so metres
deep.
It
is named after the bay it appears in
McKenzie Bay (just round from the southern
head of Bondi McKenzies
Point).
McKenzie,
apparently, owned a farm on the point,
and this gave the name to both the head
and the bay (our resident Bondi historian,
John Ruffels, believes that children used
to chase McKenzies cows over the
cliff).
But
do visit this lovely little beach, and
if possible have a paddle there.
It
may be gone tomorrow or the next day or
week or month.
And
it may not return for many years.
Enjoy
it while its here.
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Campbell
Parade empty footpath
Max Siano said: "Upgrade all you
like. Sure, it will look great on a postcard
- but if the council doesn't try to fix
things here, many of the shops will soon
be empty."
WORK
STARTS ON UPGRADE
Preliminary work has already begun on
the $3.1 million upgrade of the eastern
side of Campbell Parade.
The upgrade is a joint project of Waverley
Council and the Federal Government, and
was launched a few weeks ago by the Mayor
of Waverley, Councillor George Newhouse,
and the local MP and Federal Environment
Minister, Malcolm Turnbull.
The project includes widening footpaths,
upgrading storm-water drainage, adding
350 metres of median fencing, and constructing
new kerb and guttering.
A particular feature will be the planting
of new Norfolk Island pines and the protection
and preservation of ones already planted.
Other plants will be bedded in between
Lamrock Avenue and Beach Road.
The work is being managed by a Melbourne
company experienced in beach-upgrades,
City Wide Service Solutions.
"The upgrade will enhance Bondi as
an international tourist destination,"
said Paul Gilmore, of City Wide. "Local
heritage will be emphasised and the aim
is to attract people to Bondi all year
long.
"It will also help traffic management
in the area. The works will be of a very
high standard."
The upgrade was due to begin on July 1
but will soon be fully underway.
Watch this space.
Photos:
Jessica Keogh
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ACCURACY
OF OUR LISTINGS
Cyberbondi
is very proud of the accuracy of our listings.
We strive to keep the information in our
very extensive database
up-to-date.
It
is our strong belief that what will keep
us the most-reliable and most-used database
covering our Bondi-Waverley-Bronte Internet
Community Network area is the relevance
of our listings the accuracy and
reality of the picture we
provide of our district.
We
derive our information from many sources.
However, the major one is what we call
block sweeps.
As
the database is maintained by people who
live in the area, we have the opportunity
to check on an almost daily basis
by driving and walking around the area
- the who, what and where of the local
community.
But
many local businesses and other entities
do not have shop-fronts, or
obvious presences. So it is
more difficult to monitor their existence
and activity.
We regularly update all the office blocks
in our area by physically checking the
foyer directories of each
of them.
Yet
many businesses operate out of anonymous
private premises, or similar hard-to-monitor
places.
The
best records of these, clearly, are maintained
by Telstra via their telephone listings.
Although
this is public information,
we acknowledge that if our information
comes from this important source, we say
so openly in our description of the relevant
listing (eg, YP or WP 6/07).
Only
entities that have a local presence are
listed in Cyberbondi though we
encourage advertisements from outside
businesses that also serve our area.
Yet our main advertising base is businesses
& other entities who are physically
located within the boundaries of Bondi-Waverley,
and who want to market their goods &
services to the local community.
Of
course, we welcome any correcting or amending
of our listings, and so encourage people
in the area to tell us if there are new
entries, or entries that should be deleted,
or most importantly entries
that need further updating and upgrading.
Indeed,
we have created what is called a Cyberbondi
Content Management System (CMS)
that people can use to control and manage
their own listing.
This
can be accessed on our PLAZA home
page.
And
we are only too pleased to help people
use this facility, which gives them the
ability to change, add to, or otherwise
update/upgrade their entries in Cyberbondi.
However,
we realise that many are unfamiliar with
the technology involved, and we are happy
to receive new information from anyone
at any time, by phone 9319 6851, letter
(box 100 Millers Point 2000), fax (9319
6850), or email (go to info@cyberbondi.com.au).
Do
please help us to keep Virtually
Everything in Cyberbondi as up-to-the-minute
as possible.
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28/5/07
CHANGES
IN OUR FASHION CATEGORY
As
foreshadowed in our last CyberBondi
news item (14/5), we have changed the
FASHION BOUTIQUE LOBBY in the CyberBondi
FASHION COURT to STREETWEAR.
We
decided that FASHION BOUTIQUE was too
wide a category, and lumped a range
of fashion outlets into the one, rather
meaningless, category.
So
now STREETWEAR, which is a term many
shops and their customers are using
currently, will describe fashions for
the younger age-group. In fact, many
(if not most) of what we formerly described
as FASHION BOUTIQUE or just BOUTIQUE
are now in the STREETWEAR LOBBY.
We
have also changed the category WOMENS
CLOTHING to WOMENS
WEAR (as in Womens Wear
Daily the NY-based Bible
of the fashion industry). This is meant
to be a more up-market term indicating
quality fashion short of couture and
our DESIGNER FASHION category.
The
next area we will be looking at is our
ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE COURT. We have
already changed this to WELLBEING &
ALTERNATIVE HEALTH. But we are still
unhappy with some of the sub-categories
or LOBBIES.
We
will keep you informed.
(We
are also looking at ways to bring you
more newsy news items, and
tomorrow we will have a rather interesting
one.)
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14/5/07
: CHANGES IN OUR CAFÉ/CASUAL
EATING CATEGORY
We
at CYBERBONDI are continually refining
our PLAZA categories which
we call COURTS (our site is designed
as a permanent Expo of Virtually
Everything in Bondi-Waverley)
to better reflect the reality/actuality
of the local business environment
and community lifestyle.
In
revising and updating our PLAZAs -
LIVING, SHOPPING,
etc - we have decided that our former
sub-category CAFÉ
is too broad and general. (We call
these sub-categories LOBBIES.)
What
exactly is a café?
Is it a place that merely serves coffee?
Or dispenses coffee plus other things?
We
think the term is almost meaningless
in a contemporary context, and indiscriminate
in the context of an Internet Community
Network (which is what CYBERBONDI
is).
So
from today we are changing our CAFÉ
sub-category/LOBBY into CASUAL
EATING/CAFÉ (for the
term café still
means something to most people).
And
we will progressively convert those
coffee-dispensing businesses that
we formerly described as CAFEs
into the sort of café that
they actually are.
Many
of these former CAFEs
will now be called STREET CAFÉ
to indicate they are local, street-situated
cafes, often open-fronted or with
outside tables.
If,
however, they have some special characteristic
or feature, we will indicate this
with such new and existing
LOBBIES as CAFÉ-DELI,
BAKERY CAFÉ, ETHNIC
CAFÉ, VEGETARIAN
CAFÉ, BREAKFAST
CAFÉ, COFFEE LOUNGE,
MALL CAFÉ, and
so on (see on the PLAZA page our new
COURT, CASUAL EATING/CAFÉ).
We
have also brought in two new LOBBIES,
NATURAL JUICE OUTLET from
our ORGANIC COURT and
INTERNET CAFÉ from
our INTERNET COURT.
Perhaps
most importantly, we have refined
two major categories, to make them
more useful and functional.
We
have added a new LOBBY category TAKE-AWAY
EAT-IN to the CASUAL EATING/CAFÉ
COURT, removing a similar LOBBY from
the TAKE-AWAY/TO-GO COURT.
This enables us to better indicate
which take-away establishments have
eat-in facilities, too. (We will progressively
revise all take-aways in coming weeks.)
And
we have eliminated the previous sub-category/LOBBY
RESTAURANT/CAFÉ
from the RESTAURANT COURT,
replacing it with CAFÉ-RESTAURANT
in the CASUAL EATING/CAFÉ
COURT. Thus any restaurant that has
casual café facilities,
or any café that also serves
meals, will be listed in this CASUAL
EATING/CAFÉ COURT as
CAFÉ-RESTAURANT.
In
the coming months we will revise and
update other sections of our CYBERBONDI
Internet Community Network. (The next
cab on the rank is the
BOUTIQUE category/LOBBY
in our FASHION COURT
we believe that it is also too wide
and general, and needs more meaningful
sub-categories.)
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17/4/07
WELCOME TO CYBERBONDI NEWS
Today,
April 17, we launch a new, and important,
section in CYBERBONDI.
Its
called CYBERBONDI NEWS.
The
CYBERBONDI site has been around
active since 1997,
when we started what turned out
to be our first Internet Community
Network CYBERBONDI.
Our
philosophy our rationale
and driving impetus was that
the Internet was going to supplant,
or at least augment, existing Media
outlets (newspapers, magazines,
radio, TV, etc, etc).
We
launched CYBERBODNI as our first
model of what we saw
far too early, as it turned
out the future of information
and community communication
the
shape of things to come.
Yet
we have waited a long time for those
things to come.
But we now think we are, to use
a Bondi analogy, on the edge of
the surf, watching the waves, on
the horizon, beginning to well up.
So
we are currently in the process
of substantially upgrading CYBERBONDI
(preparatory to expanding to the
rest of Sydney Cyber Paddington-Woollahra
will be next, hopefully later this
year)
One
of our first steps towards the future
the digital, online future
is to launch this CYBERBONDI
NEWS section to our website.
Our
aim is to present each day something
of interest to those accessing our
site.
We
hope that ordinary news what
is happening daily in Bondi-Woollahra
will be part of this new
and regular service.
But
we will also report matters concerning
our CYBERBONDI site fresh
categories, changes in format and
content, new initiatives and trends,
and so on.
Click
on this each week and see what is
making news in CYBERBONDI.
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CyberSydney Pty Ltd
All Rights Reserved
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Local
News 13/8/07
CAMPBELL
PARADE UPGRADE CAUSES CONFLICT

Artist's impression of the proposed
facelift
Bondi
Beach's Campbell Parade is to have a $3.1 million
facelift - but not everyone is happy, reports JESSICA KEOGH
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"THEY'VE
put the nail in our retail coffin" said Max
Siano, vice-president of the Bondi Chamber of Commerce.
Max, who owns Max's Shoes on Bondi Beach's famous
"Strip", was commenting on the planned
upgrade of the eastern side of Campbell Parade,
jointly funded by Waverley Council and the Federal
Government.
The upgrade work is due to start soon (see below).
But retailers along the Strip are less than enthusiastic
about the upgrade.
Max described it as "a painful, half-hearted
affair."
Speaking as spokesman for business in the area,
Max said: "We haven't been consulted. If only
the council had asked us, we could have helped them
plan it properly. We are just as eager to upgrade
as they are."
Other business-owners along the Strip shared Max's
concerns. A particular worry to them is the way
Westfield at Bondi Junction is attracting customers
away from them.
"Westfield has 3000 or so free parking places,"
said one retailer. "All we have is parking
metres. Westfield is sucking customers away from
us."
The council recently suspended some parking meters
over the weekend during the winter months, recognising
the concerns of businesses along the strip.
"But the meters go back on again during the
week," the retailer pointed out. "It's
all very well to attract visitors over the weekend
- but we operate a seven-day-a-week business. Who's
going to come back once they get booked by the piranhas?
Once bitten, twice shy."
"Nothing is being done to promote the beach,
and no consultation between the Council and businesses
like mine," said Patrick Moritz, owner of the
Lamrock Café, a Strip landmark for over 20
years.
Several retailers said that the number of people
visiting Bondi was dwindling. Some shopkeepers
fear that unemployment and business failure are
imminent. "Business is terrible at the moment,"
one commented.
Some
businesses are concerned about the disruption the
upgrade works will cause. Already there are complaints
from retailers in Hall Street about they way the
new footpath works are hurting their businesses.
"The council has got carried away with its
beautification," said another Campbell Parade
shopkeeper, "but we have other issues. We have
invested time and money in the area. But we are
being left out in the cold. I get the Impression
that the council is anti-business."
However, other business-owners acknowledged that
recent efforts to draw the public to Bondi during
the winter months had shown promise. "But there's
no Bondi Boom," commented another.
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12/6/07
DISAPPEARING
BEACH DISAPPEARS AGAIN!
Now
you see it now you dont. The recent
storm has washed away McKenzies Beach again.
(We
hope you took our advice and visited it while
it was there. See the BEFORE photo below
and our earlier story about its reappearance.)
A
great pity, for it was a lovely little beach.
Now
we will have to wait who knows how long?
before it reappears.
The
tide giveth, the storm taketh away, blessed be
the name of the southerly.
AFTER

BEFORE

McKenzie's Beach
29/5/07
OUR
DISAPPEARING BEACH RETURNS
You
may have read in the Wentworth Courier recently
about the reappearance of McKenzies
Beach (or, if you walk or jog round the coastal
walkway, you will have no doubt seen the new
beach which has suddenly materialised between Bondi
and Tamarama).
To
have a new beach on Sydneys eastern coastline
is no small thing.
And
it a very nice little beach, too (as our photo shows).
Indeed,
if it would only stay where it is, it would quickly
become one of Sydneys most popular beaches
a boutique beach if you like.
But
it wont.
For
McKenzies Beach is a cyclical phenomenon.
It waxes and wanes (and disappears) as the seasons
come and go.
Experts
say that it is mainly a winter beach.
However,
it does not reappear every year or each winter.
This
year it is particularly large, with a broad sweep
of sand that is perhaps 80 or more metres across,
and 20 or so metres deep.
It
is named after the bay it appears in McKenzie
Bay (just round from the southern head
of Bondi McKenzies Point).
McKenzie,
apparently, owned a farm on the point, and this
gave the name to both the head and the bay (our
resident Bondi historian, John Ruffels, believes
that children used to chase McKenzies cows
over the cliff).
But
do visit this lovely little beach, and if possible
have a paddle there.
It
may be gone tomorrow or the next day or week or
month.
And
it may not return for many years.
Enjoy
it while its here.
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Campbell
Parade empty footpath
Max Siano said: "Upgrade all you like. Sure,
it will look great on a postcard - but if the council
doesn't try to fix things here, many of the shops
will soon be empty."
WORK
STARTS ON UPGRADE
Preliminary work has already begun on the $3.1 million
upgrade of the eastern side of Campbell Parade.
The upgrade is a joint project of Waverley Council
and the Federal Government, and was launched a few
weeks ago by the Mayor of Waverley, Councillor George
Newhouse, and the local MP and Federal Environment
Minister, Malcolm Turnbull.
The project includes widening footpaths, upgrading
storm-water drainage, adding 350 metres of median
fencing, and constructing new kerb and guttering.
A particular feature will be the planting of new
Norfolk Island pines and the protection and preservation
of ones already planted. Other plants will be bedded
in between Lamrock Avenue and Beach Road.
The work is being managed by a Melbourne company
experienced in beach-upgrades, City Wide Service
Solutions.
"The upgrade will enhance Bondi as an international
tourist destination," said Paul Gilmore, of
City Wide. "Local heritage will be emphasised
and the aim is to attract people to Bondi all year
long.
"It will also help traffic management in the
area. The works will be of a very high standard."
The upgrade was due to begin on July 1 but will
soon be fully underway.
Watch this space.
Photos:
Jessica Keogh
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ACCURACY
OF OUR LISTINGS
Cyberbondi
is very proud of the accuracy of our listings. We
strive to keep the information in our very
extensive database up-to-date.
It
is our strong belief that what will keep us the
most-reliable and most-used database covering our
Bondi-Waverley-Bronte Internet Community Network
area is the relevance of our listings the
accuracy and reality of the picture
we provide of our district.
We
derive our information from many sources. However,
the major one is what we call block sweeps.
As
the database is maintained by people who live in
the area, we have the opportunity to check on an
almost daily basis by driving and walking
around the area - the who, what and where of the
local community.
But
many local businesses and other entities do not
have shop-fronts, or obvious presences.
So it is more difficult to monitor their existence
and activity.
We regularly update all the office blocks in our
area by physically checking the foyer
directories of each of them.
Yet
many businesses operate out of anonymous private
premises, or similar hard-to-monitor places.
The
best records of these, clearly, are maintained by
Telstra via their telephone listings.
Although
this is public information, we acknowledge
that if our information comes from this important
source, we say so openly in our description of the
relevant listing (eg, YP or WP 6/07).
Only
entities that have a local presence are listed in
Cyberbondi though we encourage advertisements
from outside businesses that also serve
our area.
Yet our main advertising base is businesses &
other entities who are physically located within
the boundaries of Bondi-Waverley, and who want to
market their goods & services to the local community.
Of
course, we welcome any correcting or amending of
our listings, and so encourage people in the area
to tell us if there are new entries, or entries
that should be deleted, or most importantly
entries that need further updating and upgrading.
Indeed,
we have created what is called a Cyberbondi Content
Management System (CMS) that people can use
to control and manage their own listing.
This
can be accessed on our PLAZA home page.
And
we are only too pleased to help people use this
facility, which gives them the ability to change,
add to, or otherwise update/upgrade their entries
in Cyberbondi.
However,
we realise that many are unfamiliar with the technology
involved, and we are happy to receive new information
from anyone at any time, by phone 9319 6851, letter
(box 100 Millers Point 2000), fax (9319 6850), or
email (go to info@cyberbondi.com.au).
Do
please help us to keep Virtually Everything
in Cyberbondi as up-to-the-minute as possible.
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28/5/07
CHANGES
IN OUR FASHION CATEGORY
As
foreshadowed in our last CyberBondi news item
(14/5), we have changed the FASHION BOUTIQUE LOBBY
in the CyberBondi FASHION COURT to STREETWEAR.
We
decided that FASHION BOUTIQUE was too wide a category,
and lumped a range of fashion outlets into the
one, rather meaningless, category.
So
now STREETWEAR, which is a term many shops and
their customers are using currently, will describe
fashions for the younger age-group. In fact, many
(if not most) of what we formerly described as
FASHION BOUTIQUE or just BOUTIQUE are now in the
STREETWEAR LOBBY.
We
have also changed the category WOMENS
CLOTHING to WOMENS WEAR
(as in Womens Wear Daily the NY-based
Bible of the fashion industry). This
is meant to be a more up-market term indicating
quality fashion short of couture and our DESIGNER
FASHION category.
The
next area we will be looking at is our ALTERNATIVE
MEDICINE COURT. We have already changed this to
WELLBEING & ALTERNATIVE HEALTH. But we are
still unhappy with some of the sub-categories
or LOBBIES.
We
will keep you informed.
(We
are also looking at ways to bring you more newsy
news items, and tomorrow we will have a rather
interesting one.)
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14/5/07
: CHANGES IN OUR CAFÉ/CASUAL EATING
CATEGORY
We
at CYBERBONDI are continually refining our PLAZA
categories which we call COURTS (our
site is designed as a permanent Expo of Virtually
Everything in Bondi-Waverley) to
better reflect the reality/actuality of the
local business environment and community lifestyle.
In
revising and updating our PLAZAs - LIVING,
SHOPPING, etc - we have decided
that our former sub-category CAFÉ
is too broad and general. (We call these sub-categories
LOBBIES.)
What
exactly is a café? Is it
a place that merely serves coffee? Or dispenses
coffee plus other things?
We
think the term is almost meaningless in a contemporary
context, and indiscriminate in the context of
an Internet Community Network (which is what
CYBERBONDI is).
So
from today we are changing our CAFÉ
sub-category/LOBBY into CASUAL EATING/CAFÉ
(for the term café still
means something to most people).
And
we will progressively convert those coffee-dispensing
businesses that we formerly described as CAFEs
into the sort of café that they actually
are.
Many
of these former CAFEs will now be
called STREET CAFÉ to indicate
they are local, street-situated cafes, often
open-fronted or with outside tables.
If,
however, they have some special characteristic
or feature, we will indicate this with
such new and existing LOBBIES as CAFÉ-DELI,
BAKERY CAFÉ, ETHNIC
CAFÉ, VEGETARIAN CAFÉ,
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