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**Welcome to my Wiki**

Welcome to my Wiki, over the next few weeks i will be adding images, video, poems and songs that all represent the typical beach culture and the unseen world of Australian beaches.

=Blood is thicker than water=



=Blue Bottle Stranded on Bondi Beach=

And as I walked on Bondi's burnished sands  the Australian sun beating at my brow  my tender skin stepped upon a beating heart  blue-veined transparency  tendrils reaching for the unreachable sea  rounded body gelatinous and vulnerable  'Blue Bottle'  stranded pulsating jellyfish  lost and alienated from its shoal  when, in her fear  she whipped and stung and clung  numbing me into submission  but for a moment  then shivering as her strength depleted with the ebbing tide  her frightened eyes begged forgiveness  as I scratched and fumbled at the reddening wound <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"> I left her lying there <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"> then, turning back with towelled hands <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"> I bent over her <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"> clasped her greasy roundness <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"> so small against my shadow <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"> and within a wind's breath <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"> my jellyfish tasted salty waters <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"> while the white horses claimed their prodigal mermaid <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"> as she vanished into their unfathomable watery stables <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"> and I began to limp homeward on burnished sands

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"> Bondi Beach,1986

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal;"> Penny Hemans

=Commentary=

The name of the poem I selected was called, //‘Blue bottle stranded on Bondi beach’// and is by Penny Hermans. The genre of the text is mainly concerned with beach culture. The poem was made on the 17th of August 2007 and is targeted at the typical beachy Australian and it intended to entice the Australian beach culture to understand and read this poem.

The typical Australian beach culture is probably the one of the main stereotypes of the typical Australian male; a non-Australian might picture the Australian surfer as a lonely person walking along the golden sands of an empty beach. This image is quite strong in the poem and does give the reader a sense of what it is like to be Australian. Throughout this poem there is no essence of rhyme. Which is very different compared to other poems. The language used is not a common type of English and can often be quite difficult to read fluently, this makes the reader take his/her time so that they can understand the tricky language and understand the meaning behind it. In the last few lines, adjectives are used to make the objective sounds more in depth and interesting. Adjectives are usually common in poems as they help describe the surroundings and allow the reader to have a visual image in their mind. In the first line it subverts the stereotypical idea of Bondi beach as a friendly beach where nothing bad happens but actually there are dangerous creatures everywhere you turn.

Each line in this poem is short, which allows the reader to read at a steady pace and not get out of breath with large sentences. The language used in this poem is not simple and easy to understand language. You have to be confident in reading English to be able to understand some of the tricky language used in this poem. This poem uses adjectives to give the person a sense of what it is like at Bondi and describes the blue bottle and how it has been alienated from its group, "… tendrils reaching for the unreachable sea…” It positions the reader on the side of the Blue bottle as it is nearly dead and is stranded on an unknown area of group which is unusual to its species, " …rounded body gelatinous and vulnerable …” Most people hate and fear the blue bottle when they go for a swim but this poem doesn't use the stereotypical blue bottle as a stinging creature but as a helpless and alienated animal left by its kind.

The use of technical words in the poem gives the reader an understanding of what it is really like for the blue bottle and this is why I picked this poem. It does subvert the stereotypical Australian beach as a place where bad things can occur and that not all beaches are friendly. The blue bottle washing up on the beach shows that there are creatures out at sea around the beaches but the helplessness of the blue bottle subverts the idea of the blue bottle being an animal that goes out of its way to sting you but in fact it is like any other animal that protects itself when needed. This poem shows the ideas about Bondi beach being a great place where it is safe but in fact it is one of the most dangerous beaches in the world and people need to take care when swimming there.

=<span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal;">Body boarding Australia =

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=Bondi Rescue=



=Fight over Beach Ownership=

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The first picture of the boys from Bondi Rescue is probably one of the most well known group of lifeguards in the world. The T.V series of Bondi rescue has had 6 seasons and is shown across the globe, it supports the stereotype of the Australian beach culture and the people who protect it. The three lifeguards are Bisho, Tom Bunting and Hoppo who some of the nicest