There's a left in Sydney that ain't Narrabeen and it… folds. TB's apartment overlooks it…
A little while back the tour’s second oldest surfer, Taj Burrow, 36, bought himself a slice of Sydney’s most exclusive beach suburb. A top-floor, three-bedroom duplex circa 1950s that overlooks the area’s best wave.
Mackenzies Bay. Y’heard of it?
Oh it’s so special. Multi-multi-million dollar houses and million-dollar-plus apartments created by the city’s best architects (Hello Alex Popov! Kelvin Ho!) hang over either a coastal footpath (Kenneth St) or a narrow road (Gaerloch Avenue) that winds around to the neighbouring beach, Tamarama, where surfers ride either an imperfect left off the northern headland at low-tide and a squishy little rip bowl right near the shore at high tide. Fun enough.
But, Mackenzies, Maccas, K-Bay, when it’s on, which ain’t real often let’s be real, is an honest-to-god square tube. It’s one of the few places left in Australia with a regular pack of bodyboarders. Waves’ll hit a slab of sand in the north corner and hack whoever is on it into the southern headland a little under 50 metres away or send ’em over the falls, a reality for many.
Taj knows real estate. He’s been buying hunks his whole career. He knows it as a wonderful store of value. His Mackenzies Bay three-bedder, with garage, last traded at $493,000 in 1988 and $185,000 in 1986. The investment banker owner, David Sutherland, had tried to offload it in 2010 for two-and-a-half mill but didn’t get any bites.
Taj scooped it up four years later for 200 gees less. Smart buy? Of course.
This pied-à-terre currently rents for $1500 a week.
No one is born a follower of anything. Religion is learned. There are only people on this planet. Of different races and genders, yeah, but people. If you are being taught that you are better than others, or to hate others because their belief set doesn’t match the one you’ve adopted, then you should find a wiser, saner teacher.
In reality, we all share the same universal source of consciousness — even as individuals.
therefore differences in appearance, or language are not in conflict with our innate oneness. there is only one essence of life. No one has exclusive access. we share the same soul.
peace to all, i say.