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’m lying on my stomach, paddling hurriedly against the waves that are thwarting my attempts to get out to sea. Jett, our instructor,


appears like a Baywatch-esque rescuer behind me. “Ready? Three, two, one…” he says with a swift turn and a push of my surfboard, and suddenly I’m riding a wave, albeit on my knees, back towards the golden crescent of Bondi Beach. We’ve just arrived in Sydney on a Gold Medal fam trip and dived straight into life Down Under with a surfing lesson at Sydney’s most famous beach.


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Let’s Go Surfing is Bondi’s only officially licensed surf school, taking small groups out on the waves. As we make our way back after a two-hour lesson, our fam trip group is covered in sand and soaked through – but bonding in Bondi has been the perfect way to break the ice.


CITY ON THE WATER Sydney is a city that revolves around water. Not only on the sun-soaked sands of Bondi Beach, one of more than 100 beaches in the city, but also


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PICTURE: Daniel Tran/Tourism Australia


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