Bondi Beach

Bondi Beach is honestly one of the most beautiful beaches I have ever been to. Like many other beach towns, a lot of the shops and restaurants/cafes are pretty healthy places with the occasional fish & chips, and gelato stands. Along with that, the people are generally more healthy; people are constantly running and working out on the beach, surfing, swimming at the Bondi Icebergs club (pool photo attached on "Photos" page), etc. When I walked along the cliffs of the coastal walk, there was a small access point down to the lower rock formations, which you could climb down to and look over the entire area. It was such a beautiful day that the climb down these rocks was pretty easy, and the view was absolutely amazing, not a cloud in sight. On one rock formation, there was a woman with her dog, who was walking around, once again, picking up any and all cigarette butts she saw laying in the crevasses of the rocks. I stopped to ask her why she does that, and asked her if she was worried about the germs and her answer was "better me than my dog." Apparently to dogs, cigarettes smell like food, especially when they contain special flavors like mint. Our human bodies can build up a tolerance to the nicotine in them, but dogs can't do that, so even if a dog ingests as little as two or three cigarette butts, it can be toxic enough to kill them. So this woman stops and picks up cigarette butts whenever she sees them, as long as they are easy to just pick up and throw away. When I left her, I went to go get lunch, and when I was eating I did a little bit of "google research." While a cigarette butt is very small, they actually contain 25% of the nicotine found in a cigarette, which equates to around 4 to 8mg of nicotine. In dogs, 10mg per pound of weight in nicotine is lethal, so for small dogs it is much easier to be fatal.