Welcome Note

Welcome to the Amalfi Coast

Words James Hutton, Publisher

Welcome to the November 2020 edition of The Beast, the monthly magazine for Sydney’s beaches of the east. It’s been one year since my brother Dan passed away and I want to thank everyone for your support through a pretty shit time.

A big thank you to multifaceted Aussie artist HEGO for this month’s cover illustration. You will see from the page opposite that it’s a single line drawing based on Phil Norton’s timeless photo of legendary Channel swimmers Luke Stewart and Quinn Darragh, taken following Quinn’s leg of their inspirational effort to swim from England to France. You can see more of HEGO’s work by visiting hegoart.com or at his Instagram account, @_hego.

The talk of the town lately has been this silly proposal to fence off part of the beach at Bondi and plonk a private “European style beach club” on the sand there. We considered writing an article about it, but the chances of such a pretentious plan being approved are incredibly slim.

Eastern Beaches locals are staunchly opposed to the privatisation of public space - Bronte Surf Club found that out the hard way - and we’re confident that our councillors would never allow something so tasteless to go ahead. Having said that, it would be a good way of separating all the dickheads from the general public so we could egg them en masse. Honestly, who thinks up this stuff?!

Cheers, James

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