Well, I'm gonna be spending 5 days in Sydney proper, so one of my objectives for this Airbnb was to find a place that wasn't too damn far away, but would give me a different vibe than the city center.
Also, as a lifelong Midwesterner, the very idea of a "beach" confuses and fascinates me.
Here's what a beach looks like over here:
![](http://www.superiortrails.com/2014images/burlington3407.jpg)
You'll notice the water is clean but nobody is it it, and that's because that's Lake Superior so it's negative one million degrees.