As Monday is a day off for the club bicycle rides, Tom takes me on a special ride each Monday. This time we went out to the southeast ocean beaches and worked our way up the coastline to Watson’s Bay, around some of the harbour beaches and then back through some very upscale neighborhoods and back to Centennial Park. All in all, it’s about a 30 mile ride with some long hills, as the roads around the coastline undulate up and down. Every time you have an easy cruise down to the beach, you know you’ll have a long climb back up. All the hills were very doable, however and we had a great ride.

We’ve taken to making many detours around neighborhoods to check out houses. This year, we’re taking lots of photographs as ideas for a possible remodel to our house. The architecture here is very creative; in fact one of the coolest houses we’ve seen is one that our architect (and cycling) friend, Jeff, is working on.

Here’s Bronte Beach at about 9:30AM

The Rock pool at Bronte beach with an impromtu waterfall feature

Famous Bondi Beach

Icebergs, a trendy restaurant and club at Bondi

The happy couple going off-road on our road bikes

Idyllic Watson’s Bay

Neilson’s beach, an inner harbour beach

Sunset under the Harbour Bridge

A perfect end to a perfect day