Avalon
Previously a beachhead for what in Sydney once passed for the counter culture, nowadays Avalon's callow younger generation, most of whom have never wanted for anything in their life, pose gracefully in acceptably unfussy - though awfully pretentious - village cafes and bars, sipping Bellinis while attempting to outdo one another by emulating their favourite Entourage characters. If Newtown had the tang of a sea breeze it could well be Avalon.
surfers info three consistent breaks that can happen at each end of the beach, or off the rocky ledge at the Southern headland known as Little Avalon or, in local parlance, LA (what else? El Lay...) - the beach tends to have coarse sand and a steep rise creating a formidable shore break, while on its day, North Avalon can be one of the great waves of Sydney. When it's working - and the swell is big to huge from the E to NE - North Avalon produces some classic lefts, peeling from outside the North point to the Southern corner of the beach. On smaller days during a South to South East swell excellent waves can be found in closer to the boulders with sucky little right-handers closer to the beach.
No Petersham, no St. Peters?
Thread fails to deliver.
i've always considered avalon to be more a part of the central coast than sydney anyhow
fale
Bilgola
If some of the horniest, most attractive MILFs in the country reside at Avalon, the elderly of Bilgola must seem Bipolar by comparison. Put another way: if the Avalese are up themselves, the Bilgolese are so very of themselves. They weren’t always though and late 70s band Bilgola Bop Band, who later became the successful 80s act Moving Pictures both featured one Peter Baron from the free acid jazz pioneers and erstwhile Bilgola locals Tamam Shud in their personnel. Departing a Bilgola Bop Band gig once many years ago friends told me how they couldn’t understand the lyrics being sung. I replied I could, but couldn’t understand why they bothered singing them.
Turning off Barrenjoey Road just before the famously hairy Bilgola Bends the intrepid traveller descends The Serpentine to the stately sea level tranquility of Bilgola. With so much architectural diversity set among its classically ornate gardens even the World-weary can’t help but be impressed. A day on the beach highly recommended. Just be sure to mule in food and drink, by which I mean galantine of pheasant and a half bott of Mumms.
surfers info catches most swell with the Northern corner offering good protection from the nor’ Easters. A quality beach break sometimes appears at either end of the beach, depending on sandbanks. Northern corner is ideal for those learning to surf, but only during small swells.
hanging for north ryde
milf
great thread...
hanging for Five Dock and Zetland
give picnic point a run
Thread needs more Epping.
hanging for the sledging that Surry Hills should be getting...
I don't get it..
motherfucker don't be posting bilgola!!!
that's my fucking ''i want a quiet - slightly smaller wave'' when i am at my folks house!!!!!! or when i was a teenager
that first pic you posted is near where i used to park my car and walk almost straight out onto sand and have a wave to me and maybe 2 other dudes and then you can look up at the hills while you surf - especially awesome as it comes towards dusk
if bilgola is crowded next time i go for a surf, i am coming for you Peter
Don't be such a MILF, Mo.
mo i would like to fuck?
north bilgola, used to hang there, park on the grass right on the beach, smoke pot, surf and occasionally hang into the night there. was a nice secluded little spot back then and you could see if a cop car was coming a mile off
^^^^
choden - me too!
Collaroy Plateau
The developers and migrant builders who turned an elevated bit of Collaroy into Collaroy Plateau achieved a certain genius in suburban planning that Frank Sartor and his like-minded cronies must have dreamt of when they took a stab at adding the word Heights to part of Redfern.
Snapshot from the summer of ’77: sitting on the balcony of that Shirley girl’s place (she of the massive breasts) on Edgecliffe Boulevard, CP, punching cones while listening to 461 Ocean Boulevard and wondering about the dark reclusiveness of smack addiction.
Snapshot of my (gradual) suburban mental awakening thereafter: we inherited the limitations of the rock’n’roll audience. The remoteness of the spectacle that could only ever remain an observation for most fans creates its own loneliness.
When Nietzsche wrote of ‘diverse egoisms – all turning on each other and as though exploding, all fighting each other…and no longer able to derive any limit, any restraint, any forbearance from an accepted morality that had stored up such an enormous energy, and bent the bow in such a menacing way; now it is spent, now it is becoming “outlived”…the individual is forced to make his own laws, his own arts and stratagems of self-preservation, self-enhancement and self-redemption.’ It’s almost as if he did so after thoroughly observing the modern history of the Plateau.
My thoughts encapsulated exactly, Freddie…
come out to Cabramatta!
Maybe this thread should be named ''Peter's Northern Beach Suburbs of Sydney''...
what was that south-ish (?) suburb where some car-jacking joyriding youths got killed in a police car chase and the locals rioted?
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where have the pictures gone?
I think they're apartments. Wouldn't say its derelict looking... no more than the rest of Surry Hills.
PS It would be remiss of me not to mention how great the Hollywood is.
oh wait.. you want the history..
nah definitely derelict and boarded up - maybe apartments for squatters. about 6 storeys, blonde brick, with wooden doors to the street on all floors up, like a woolshed? i'll get a pic. it's surrounded by offices and apartrments though
the building has 'griffiths tea' painted along the top of it in white-ish. i'll put a photo on here later
Oh god, you know some places are really not worth travelling too, you realise with Australia's population that the distribution of wealth, good looks and fortune is not always what it seems and it is quite a curious thing.
i am STIFFPeter
Are there any inexplicable non-outskirt rural enclaves in suburban Sydney, save for Ingleside and La Perouse? There's something really awesome about driving five minutes from medium - high density infrastructure to horses, paddocks and market gardens. There have to be a few in the South West, right?
My housemate and I are just talking about it, and trying to identify others.
Woolstore dudes - Have you seen the Goldsborough Mort these days? As in inside? It's SO BIZARRE. The bottom story is like an indoor condo complex with astroturf (if memory serves) and there are all these weird abstract paintings of satanic looking sheep hanging in the lift and common areas. It so odd!
I was in Wahroonga over the weekend. It felt like I was walking back and forth along St George Rd Toorak all afternoon.
I like Parramatta
Oh, it's you again.
I never want to move out of Mosman.
People who live in Newtown are lowlife hipsters.
Whereas you are just a generic lowlife dumb coq!
...the cosmic ballet continues...
Inbred/mammals, that ObjectFartBurp idiot isn't me! This is me you Gawd-help-us, obsessed schlubb. Sorry to hear about it.
And _v, you really should know better.
And the rest of you; learn from it.
They city smelt bad today.
Haha, you dumb fuck.
hey.
you know what suburb looks like it could be a really awesome place to live?
campsie.
its vibrant. full of asians. it doesn't look like a shitbox. its not too far away. its got loads of transport. and it is probably very affordable.
but i've never really spent time there. i was just bowled over by how vibrant and busy it was on the weekend.