I got smashed in the surf at Bondi Beach this week but there’s a reason I keep going back

It wasn’t supposed to end like this.

I walked out of the surf, bloody and feeling like I’d just gone a round with Mike Tyson.

A young American man was taking photos of Bondi Beach for a uni assignment and asked if he could take my picture.

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