you blink, you will miss it

Morning gang,

You blink, you will miss it… yep, I’m talking about the sun.

As I posted in my Instagram Stories earlier this morning, it was looking pretty rubbish today. I’m quite often asked why am I not posting photos of Bondi when it’s overcast. It’s simply not my jam.

When I started Morning Bondi twelve years ago, I used to take photos every single day of the week regardless of the weather but I became a bit fussier over the years - typical French poshness. Today, I made an exception, here is just one photo of this morning when the sun appeared for a total of a minute.

The rest are all the photos that you might recognise from my interview with Marley from Exceptional Alien. If you haven’t checked it out, you should watch it as I reveal some of my favourite spots in Bondi.

Finally, talking of ‘French poshness’, as some of you might be aware I’m part of the Board of The Alliance Française, promoting French culture in Australia. This includes how to impress your friends at a dinner table by knowing everything about Champagne. We are organising an event in exactly a week just for that. Check out all the details here and learn how to say Moët properly. Spoiler alert, it’s not “Moo-é” but “Mo-WeT”. You can thank me later.

On that note, have a great day gang and stay warm,

Amaury

How gorgeous! (lies)

Naughty corner

In the middle

Swim squad

Pink Paradise

Breaking free

First in, first ripples

First lights in Bronte

North Bondi Rocks

The Morning Bondi crew on Morning Bondi HQ - catching up most days since 2011

You sleep, you lose

Morning my friends,

I know the title is a bit harsh but that’s pretty much the reality. What a morning my friends but you had to be down there between 5:30am and 6ish, then it was all gone. As they say, early birds catch the worms.

And if you think that 5:30 am is early, some have already done a 1.6 km run, 100 pull-ups, 200 push-ups and 300 air squats with a 10kg weight vest by that time. That’s right, Team Murph Bondi is doing a ‘murph workout’ every day in September in honour of fallen commandos. Check their Instagram and feel free to donate right HERE. Good on you gang, you should be very proud of yourselves. Keep up the great work!

Have a lovely week and I might not be able to chat tomorrow as early meeting in the city to meet a French Minister. Yeah I know, pretty big deal! ;)

Ciao,

Amo

You beauty!

Morning Bondi!

Early swim

The Bergs

Party in North Bondi

Team Murph Bondi - what a bunch of legends!

Bondi Lifeguards setting-up the beach for the day

FriYay!

Morning my friends,

Now that’s the type of Friday that I like: beautiful weather, happy people all around and bumping into local legends.

There is never a dull moment in Bondi, two shoots, 5 metres apart from each other. I felt like I was right in the middle of an ad for ‘Influencer in the Wild’. One of my favourite accounts on the Internet, if you don’t follow it yet, get amongst it @influencersinthewild

By the way, thank you so much for all the birthday wishes yesterday, so much love. You guys rock!

A massive thank you again to Shuk Bondi for the birthday lunch and Yes You Can Drinks for the drink delivery too. Legends all around.

Have a cracking weekend, it’s meant to be good weather so you know where to find me.

Xoxo

Amo

'First in, first ripples' #FAKE

I have something for the sunrise reflection on buildings...

Neil Rogers' crew

Just chillin' you know

Baywatch in Bondi

Morning Tommy Hoskins!

Look who's in town!

Greg Bishop and mate going for a swim

Joel Pilgrim influencing

Charlotte Connell & Joel Pilgrim

Happy Hump Day!

Morning gang,

How’s everyone today?

Personally, I’m super pumped for a few reasons: this morning was glorious, I’m about to officially launch my Social Media Agency in a few days (follow me on LinkedIn to watch it unfold) and tomorrow is my birthday. #TripleWinning. BOOM!

Back to what you came up for, this morning was unreal. The colours at sunrise were spectacular, it was pretty warm and the surf was kinda alright in the middle and North Bondi.

That’s it for today, enjoy the photos and chat with you tomorrow,

Cheerio,

Amo

How good!

Murray, the legendary beach landscaper.

Look at these clouds!

Heading North

All smile for Corey Oliver

Between rips

The stunning Icebergs

Mother & Daughter

Beautiful from all the angles

Bondi Icebergs Gym has to be one of the best gyms in town

Levitating

Les palmes roses

North vs South

Morning crew,

Hope you are all well and had a great weekend. How packed was Bondi yesterday? Cray-cray! It felt like Summertime, even the temperature outside was incredible.

As every Monday, we were down at the bars with the training gang - it was pretty quiet. Quite often people ask me why I am not shooting more often down on the north end. Here are just a few reasons, sunrise is not as spectacular, and you see it much later, fewer people ie. fewer photo subjects and usually smaller surf too.

Except on Mondays, I actually never hang out down in North Bondi. South, all the way every day! Which camp are ya? North vs South. Weigh in down in the comments section.

That’s it for today, have a cracking week my friends and chat tomorrow!

Amo

The only perks of being down in the north end is seeing the sunrise reflection on the south end

Morning Grant Trebilco

Only the promenade gets busy

The Frenchies hard at work - Bertrand Pithioud and Alexis Delloye

The training gang

Hannah Cates burning off the Burning Man Partying

I was inspired to start boxing from movies. It’s been a bit Rocky. 🤪

Swim time in North Bondi

...and that's a wrap!

R U OK?

Morning beautiful people,

Today is a special day, it’s R U OK? day. A day to ask your family, friends, colleagues, neighbours, and pretty much anyone that you know if they are OK? It’s the perfect day to reconnect with loved ones that you haven’t chatted to for a little while.

Whoever will be reading this today or any day really, my question to you is: ARE YOU OK?

If you are struggling and feel like talking to someone, I’m not a healthcare professional but always happy to have a chat and see if I can help in any shape or form. Feel free to contact me via email or give me a call on +61 416 732 272 and I will try my best to help out. I mean it.

The guys from OneWave were here this morning to open conversations about mental health. I also strongly encourage you to check this page on R U OK Day website to seek professional help.

That’s it for today, have a lovely day and stay strong!

Sending love and happiness…

Amo

Sam Schumacher and Grant Trebilco from OneWave

Sam Schumacher and Grant Trebilco from OneWave

How good is that cloud formation?!

Icebergs & Clouds

Scott Findlay going in

Incredible light this morning

Double trouble: Dion Horstmans & Scott Findlay

Time to go to work for Eugene Chung

Heading Out

R U OK?

Hide & Seek

Morning gang,

Hope you all had a good weekend and a great Father’s Day for the dads out there.

Mine was just brilliant, spent a fair bit of time working on a couple of presentations for tomorrow and Wednesday. By the way, please don’t expect photos, newsletters and tutti quanti for the next two days as I will be busy chairing a conference and running a few sessions too. It’s the perfect opportunity for my soon-to-be-launched Social Media Agency - stay tuned for that!

Alright enough about me, today the sun played pretty much hide & seek all morning so I played exercise & photos all morning too. It was a bit chilly but well worth waking up and braving the cold!

Enjoy your week and chat to you on Thursday weather permitting,

Amaury

North Bondi f

South Bondi from North Bondi

Icebergs under the spotlight

Toddy & Knoxy from the 440

“It's so fluffy, I'm gonna die” - HERE is the reference

Time to go

The Bondi promenade under the sun

It's swim time!

Bondi Lifeguards setting up the beach for the day

Running out

Morning peeps,

I will soon run out of archive photos if the weather continues to play up like that - just joking I have accumulated terabytes of photos over the past 11+ years of Morning Bondi so we are safe.

That’s right, I’m one of the OGs when it comes to taking photos of Bondi in the morning. It started with Eugene Tan from Aquabumps, then the Frothers crew (Brad Malyon, Bill Morris and Franck Gazzola) and then Morning Bondi I reckon. All this, way before Instagram was even a thing.

Alright enough old stories, this morning was pretty 💩. When I arrived down, it was all grey and drizzling (check my Instagram Stories if you’re super keen) then 5 minutes of hope and back to rain. Super! We trained in the sand like maniacs, we got wet training, then wet swimming and coffee.

What else can I say except that Sunday is Father’s Day. If you are stuck with ideas, I have three ideas of present for you:

  1. A family photoshoot, picture yourself and your dad holding hands and looking pretty. Check some examples here

  2. A nice bottle of Morning Bondi Saltwater Gin that you could pick up directly from the Bondi Liquor Co distillery bar on Hall Street or on their website.

  3. Finally, if he’s sophisticated and fancy a day outside the office, you could get him tickets for the Dmarge House The guys from Dmarge are shaving $50 off the price for Morning Bondi Followers. VIP treatment right here my friends and I will see him there too. #Winwin

Don’t you worry, you can thank me later. 😅

Chat to you tomorrow,

Amaury

Number 7

Messina Ice cream truck

Messina Ice creams

IceClean

Bumpy

Over-whelming

Cloudesque

Rosé

Shorey stroll

Intruder

Whale season

Morning Bronte

Morning team,

Hope you are all well and happy hump day as they say,

Let me tell you something, this morning was a real cracker my friends and for a change I spent my morning down in Bronte Beach. The temperatures outside and inside the water were balmy, especially considering the season.

I don’t have much to say this morning but as we say a picture is worth a thousand words so here are 110,000 words for you (ie. 11 photos if you are pretty good at maths, like I am).

BOOM!

Amo

PS: Are you following Morning Bondi on TikTok yet? This morning I take you for a swim with me down at Bronte Pool - people would pay for that sh*t! 😜

Come and swim with me right HERE

Early birds

iRise

Trust me, I'm never going to far from Bondi

Bronte Pool rock formations are just unreal

Swimming in velvet

Bronte million dollars view

Bronte pool swimmer

Girl Gang

Moss has never looked that great

Bronte Palms

5 minutes of gold

Morning my friends,

Hope you are well and had a good night's sleep or a great day for my overseas friends.

This morning, I went for a Bondi to Bronte run. Once I came back in Bondi, the sun finally decided to pop its face, for a brief 5 minutes and that was it for this morning.

The problem is that I didn’t have my camera with me and I was just chatting with good mate and legendary John Macarthur from Purl Harbour - this guy is the unofficial mayor of Bondi and an Australian fashion icon but too humble to brag about it. If it’s of interest, read this article written by MrTurner about him.

Anyway, back to what I was saying, only 5 minutes of sunshine that I had to capture with my phone quickly. You can find the result right there: Five minutes of Gold

Yes, that’s right, as of this morning, I’m officially a TikToker. The Instagram reach is so screwed that I need to give TikTok a go and let’s be honest I keep on recommending to my social clients how important TikTok is so it’s about time that I do what I preach.

Hoping for a better sunrise tomorrow morning, but here are a few archive photos for now.

Ciao,

Amo

That's John Macarthur - if you live around here, chances are that you've seen him before (not taken this morning obviously)

Besties

Drying out

Water walking

Bronte bliss

From the North

May it rain

Sun-fire (taken during the massive bushfires a couple of years ago)

Solitary

Summer Vibes

...and finally another of John Macarthur - love that one

Like a Moan-day...

Morning gang,

How was your weekend? What a glorious day yesterday, you could tell that Spring is around the corner!

After a pretty rough night, I bailed the training bit and just ventured down the beach for coffee, photos and a dip in the ocean - what I do best, to be honest.

It was pretty quiet down there but luckily they were a few swimmers around the Icebergs, otherwise it would have been photos of me, myself and I.

Have a great week my friends,

Amaury pronounced Amo-ree (as no one can say my name properly even my closest mates 🤦🏽‍♂️) The meaning? It’s French for ‘LOVE’. 🤪

Looks like a painting...

Bond-Eye

Bondi Salties' represent

Cliff cleaning

The Icebergs Pool Club is stunning from all angle

Patrolling the beach

Earlier this morning

Behind the Bergs

Fridoona

Morning my friends,

Friday under my doona is 'Fridoona’. Yes, I like a good pun, if you can even qualify this as one?!

The weather forecast was planning some rain for this morning. Lucky, no rain but not necessarily great either, pretty grey and wet. As you know, when it’s uninspiring, I don’t really bother taking photos - this bit will never change. When I started Morning Bondi, 11+years ago, I used to shoot every single day: rain, hail or shine but let’s be honest, no one wants to see a grey sky and rain.

Instead, to brighten your day, here are some of the recent photos that I’ve uploaded to the Gallery page of the site. Hope you like them.

Enjoy your weekend my friends and chat to you on Monday,

Cheerio,

Amo

PS: Quick update, it's now 8 am, too late to take photos and the sun just popped in. Oh well, we can’t win all the time!

Sparkling

Eclipsing

Icebergs pool at sunrise

Lovely reflection

All by myself

Golden Plate

Patrolling

Pop'in

The squadron

Wake-up call

Peaceful Thursday

Morning gang,

How’s everyone today? I’m very well, thanks for asking!

During my 6-week holiday in Europe, I forgot how hard it was to come up with new things to say every day. Morning Bondi has always been a bit of my personal diary but shared publicly - #NoFilterMyFriends.

I’m always thinking that one day when I will be old and not able to come down the beach every morning, I will be able to go back in time by just reading my daily updates and seeing photos. I’m also thinking that my future grandkids will be able to read these and think that I had a capacity to talk absolute BS like no other.

Oh well… This morning, as every Thursday, we trained down on the sand and by “we” I mean “they” trained. I was just here busy taking photos and checking on them once in a while. There were not that many people down the beach - only a few brave souls freezing their butts off.

Chat to you tomorrow, weather permitting.

Amo

How the day started - not bad!

The 'Fitness Lunatics' that I was meant to join this morning

Sunrise meditation down in Bondi Beach is pretty special

The Icebergs getting smashed - typical

Morning mini-tubes

iSwim

what a pleasant surprise...

Morning peeps,

Hope you are all well and slept well despite all the rain last night.

Last night, I put my alarm clock at 5:40am, knowing that there was going to be a high chance of staying in bed due to the sh*te weather but guess what I was wrong. Love these type of surprises!

I ventured down for a Bondi to Bronte run, then chit chat with all the local legends: Uge, Walt, Chris, Dion and Scott. That’s probably one of the the things that I like the most about my Morning Bondi routine is to meet all these people from all walks of life. Yeah, I’m what you call a “People Person” and would always welcome a chat.

Alright enough blabla for this morning, here are the photos. The last two are goodies for the ladies. Get in touch if you want their ‘04’ - #MorningBondiMatchMakingServices are back ON!

Ciao!
Amaury

South Bondi aka SoBo for the hipsters

Wild conditions

The surf was hectic - only two guys out this morning.

I'm not sure what happened there?!

Walter Kennard showing me his new lens

IceSplash - the Icebergs getting hammered this morning

Ocean or Pool swim - same same this morning

Obsessed with the Icebergs - I even have a full gallery dedicated to it.

Dion Horstmans, local legend and sculptor

Scott Findlay, celebrity chef and owner of Flave - do me a 'flavour' and try their burgers.

hey Coogee

Morning my friends,

Have you all subscribed to the Newsletter yet? Remember, if you want to see your daily dose of sunrise photos, that’s the only way forward - HERE.

This morning for a change, I went to Coogee Beach to catch up with a mate. In the 11+ years that I have been running Morning Bondi, besides a photo shoot of a cute family, I think that’s actually the first time I have taken photos of Coogee Beach at sunrise - it didn’t disappoint!

Have a fantastic day my friends and chat to you tomorrow,

Amo

Morning Coogee

First swimmer at Wylie's Baths

Ross Jones Rockpool in South Coogee

Water is still a bit cold (16.3 degrees)

Coogee Surf Lifesaving Club

Girl Gang

Coogee Rainbow Walkway

The good looking Alexis Delloye - fellow Frenchman!

Beach volley before work - life is tough in Sydney!

On my way to Coogee, I quickly stopped by Bronte Pool - stunning!

I'm back baby

Morning my friends,

Hope you are well and you’ve not missed me too much for the past 8 weeks. That’s right, it’s been a long time, probably one of the longest I have ever done without posting a thing.

I’m back, refreshed, and energised after an awesome 6 weeks in Europe. So good to see my family and friends back home after 4 years - thank you very much Covid!

New Morning Bondi my friends. I’m back to my original formula: all the photos of the morning are posted on the blog, subscribe to the newsletter not to miss an update and only a few photos on the Socials. You may ask, why am I doing this? Fair question my friends! The Instagram and Facebook algorithm is sooo screwed that only a few of you get to see the photos every day and I don’t find this fair - so subscribe to the newsletter HERE and you won’t miss a Morning Bondi update ever. Pinky promise.

This morning was incredible - check all the photos below and hope you like the new formula. If not, you know the drill, you can address your complaints to customerservice@morningbondi.com

Have an awesome day and chat to you tomorrow,

xoxo

Amo

Bondi mornings are the best.

How's the serenity

North Bondi Gym at sunrise - where my guns happen. 😜

Surfing time

North Bondi swim

Bondi Lifeguards setting up the beach for the day

Never a dull moment in Bondi

Let's Go Surfing!

Over & Out

Sea the future

Morning my friends,

Hope you all had a great weekend. Mine was great with a lovely wedding celebration on Saturday and a few good surfs.

This week is a pretty special week. First of all, I’m starting a new job. I will reveal more in the coming days when it’s fully official. Don’t you worry!

Second of all, it’s Sustainable Seafood Week and two leading not-for-profit organisations, the ASC and MSC have joined forces to promote it. Interestingly, research shows that three-quarters (74%) of Australians believe we need to purchase certified sustainable seafood to safeguard our oceans, yet only one in ten (9%) currently do.

We can make a difference in safeguarding our seafood by shopping for products which carry the blue and green eco labels. These can be found across fresh, chilled, frozen and canned seafood items at your local supermarket. If you want to join the pledge, share a picture of you next to the water (ocean, river or even a lake) using #Seathefuture and tagging @loveoceanlovefood

I guess that’s it for today, have a wonderful week and chat to you tomorrow,

Ciao,

Amo

Sunrise is so late these days

Sunrise is so late these days

Hello Puppy!

Hello Puppy!

Reflection

Reflection

Still or Sparkling?

Still or Sparkling?

Golden light

Golden light

Chris Prestidge going undercover

Chris Prestidge going undercover

Daily commute

Daily commute

Submerged

Morning my friends,

How’s things?

Another morning, another cracker… This morning I went down for a Bondi-Bronte run (first one in 6 months, it feels good and knees don’t hurt yet) and then took my Olympus waterhousing for a swim.

Water was incredible so no wettie, just my pair of flippers to fight the strong rip. It was packed but pretty good atmosphere in the water - people dropping on each other but all with a smile!

My apologies for the late update but I had a coffee planned with Rob Norman from Knack Studios straight after my swim. You should check them out, these guys are impressive!

Enjoy the photos and chat to you tomorrow, if the weather stays beautiful. Yep, it’s meant to rain in a couple of hours. :(

Ciao,

Amo

Submerged

Submerged

Rob Norman from Knack Studios. You can blame this guy for the late update

Rob Norman from Knack Studios. You can blame this guy for the late update

John Botella ripping as always

John Botella ripping as always

Super clear water and the sun was not even up at that time

Super clear water and the sun was not even up at that time

The good looking Scott Tweedie back from South Africa

The good looking Scott Tweedie back from South Africa

Charlotte Piho hunting for waves

Charlotte Piho hunting for waves

Fizzy Keeble catching all the waves this morning

Fizzy Keeble catching all the waves this morning

Alistair Pratten catching a few before work

Alistair Pratten catching a few before work

Sharing is caring!

Sharing is caring!

Fizzy Keeble

Fizzy Keeble

Yew!

Yew!

Foam partay

Foam partay

Hard-turn

Hard-turn

Close to the action

Close to the action

Liv Phyland playing with the camera.

Liv Phyland playing with the camera.

BOOM!

Morning my friends!

Oh my gawd! What an incredible morning! The sunrise, the surf, the water temp, the number of surfers, the amount of photos I took… It’s on days like this that it’s extremely hard to leave the beach!

I don’t know what else to say so I will leave you with these 21 photos, yes I went a bit over the top this morning!

Oh well, have a good one and chat to you tomorrow,

xoxox

Amo

BOOM!

BOOM!

Namaste my friends

Namaste my friends

Brooke Monahan taking a good left

Brooke Monahan taking a good left

How is that for a sunrise?!

How is that for a sunrise?!

Jodi Hooker heading out

Jodi Hooker heading out

Lachlan Cooke, one of the most friendly humans you'll find in Bondi (Love the new mo, mate!)

Lachlan Cooke, one of the most friendly humans you'll find in Bondi (Love the new mo, mate!)

Camera shy Rob Norman

Camera shy Rob Norman

Oh yeah!!

Oh yeah!!

Yew!

Yew!

Photo-bombed

Photo-bombed

My good friend Suyin Cavanagh

My good friend Suyin Cavanagh

Wrapping-up

Wrapping-up

The Endless Summer

The Endless Summer

Rare appearance of Glenn Orgias

Rare appearance of Glenn Orgias

Bubbles

Bubbles

Sunrise swim at its best

Sunrise swim at its best

Waves, plenty to choose from this morning

Waves, plenty to choose from this morning

YaY

YaY

A bit obsessed by these waves

A bit obsessed by these waves

Beau Walker

Beau Walker

Beau Walker again

Beau Walker again

Kick-ass

Morning my friends,

Hope you all had a great weekend. The weather has been incredible lately and the water divine, it’s 25 degrees. No joke, I don’t remember being that warm in Bondi since I’ve landed here 9 years ago. It’s like a bath! Go for a dip tonight or tomorrow morning, you won’t regret it!

Kick-ass, that’s how my morning started: getting my ass-kicked! For a change I’ve trained with a group of fitness maniacs (a group led by Kim from buddee fitness) that loves to get a good sweat before the sun is even up. We started at 5:45am down at the bars and wrapped up by 6:45am. Trust me, it was tough! Tonight, I’m going to sleep like a baby.

If you want to sleep like a baby too but don’t want your body in pain, I strongly suggest you to go to the New Moon Sound Healing meditation on Thursday. It’s my good friend Viktoria that is organising it. I’ve been there before and trust me this thing is good! Read my review here and book your tickets for Thursday there.

Alright that’s enough blabla for one morning, here are the photos…

Ciao,

Amo

South Bondi from the bars North Bondi

South Bondi from the bars North Bondi

Ben Buckler

Ben Buckler

Ben Buckler zoomed-in

Ben Buckler zoomed-in

Spot Anderson paddling, GoProing and catching all the waves

Spot Anderson paddling, GoProing and catching all the waves

Going for the backpacker rip

Going for the backpacker rip

Simon & Viktoria (the same Viktoria organising the Sound Healing meditation on Thursday)

Simon & Viktoria (the same Viktoria organising the Sound Healing meditation on Thursday)

Long time, no photographed

Long time, no photographed

Another type of meditation?!

Another type of meditation?!

Splish splash sploush!

Splish splash sploush!

Morning dip!

Morning dip!

Uge wrapping-up for the morning

Uge wrapping-up for the morning

Beau Walker ripping as he does everyday really

Beau Walker ripping as he does everyday really

Kick-ass splash!

Kick-ass splash!

Anthony Glick training hard

Anthony Glick training hard

Darren Mansfield post-session

Darren Mansfield post-session