Disgusted Aussies have slammed the trail of destruction left by thousands of boozed-up Christmas day revellers at a popular Sydney beach.
Shocking pictures taken on Boxing Day morning have revealed scenes of utter chaos and carnage at Bronte Beach in the city’s exclusive eastern suburbs.
Thousands of cans, beer and wine bottles, discarded cardboard boxes and empty cooler bags were seen strewn across the usually-pristone grass behind the small but popular beach.
One bikini-clad partygoer was pictured sleeping underneath a towel amid the mess, as council rangers estimated at least ten thousand tourists and backpackers had descended on the area.
Council workers had scrambled to cater for the huge numbers after the mess left last year sparked outrage among the well-heeled locals who call Bronte home.
An extra 250 bins were placed at Bronte Beach and extra toilets and a urinal were installed to deal with the onslaught.
But the measures appear to have had little effect as the area was completely tarnished on Thursday morning.
One Aussie fumed that those ‘who left Bronte Beach looking like a f***ing landfill tip are a disgrace, as is the council not providing enough bins & police not enforcing crowd control’.
Thousands of revellers have descended onto Bronte Beach for an annual Christmas Day party (pictured) which resulted in the area being trashed like previous years
Shocking pictures taken on Boxing Day morning have revealed scenes of utter chaos and carnage at Bronte Beach in the city’s exclusive eastern suburbs
Thousands of cans, beer and wine bottles, discarded cardboard boxes and empty cooler bags were seen strewn across the usually-pristone grass behind the small beach
One bikini-clad partygoer was pictured sleeping underneath a towel amid the mess as council rangers estimated at least ten thousand tourists and backpackers had been in attendance
One self-described Bronte local said at 10.30pm they witnessed ‘scores of young people coming up Bronte Rd, drunk and the guys pissing in the houses along the street’.
‘I know because my house was one of them. I actually saw 3 men pissing into my home,’ the local wrote online.
‘Sadly by the time I rushed out with a hose they were gone. We were out there hosing down the stairs and pathways and talking to the locals who were equally disgusted and had seen it happening all along the road.’
The woman blasted the police for not taking action and queried why the alcohol-free policy in the area was not enforced.
‘There was no sign of police cars patrolling the area at 10am when we were out cleaning up, but plenty of very drunken young people with very full bladders relieving themselves,’ she added.
Waverley City Council mayor Will Nemesh said staff had been out in ‘full force’ from 8pm on Wednesday as clean-up got underway.
‘I have been and will continue to work directly with Council staff to ensure the area is cleaned as fast as possible,’ Mr Nemesh said in a Facebook post late on Wednesday night.
‘I have been and will continue to work directly with Council staff to ensure the area is cleaned as fast as possible.’
Council workers had scrambled to cater for the huge numbers after the mess left last year sparked outrage among the well-heeled locals who call Bronte home
An extra 250 bins were placed at Bronte Beach and extra toilets and a urinal were installed to deal with the onslaught
But the measures appear to have had little effect as the area was completely tarnished on Thursday morning
One Aussie fumed that those ‘who left Bronte Beach looking like a f***ing landfill tip are a disgrace, as is the council not providing enough bins & police not enforcing crowd control’
‘Overall the reports from Police, our rangers, additional security and our lifeguards has been positive – there was very minimal anti social behaviour and the extra measures introduced this year have had a positive result compared to previous years.
But one local told Daily Mail Australia that they ‘know to stay away from Bronte on Christmas’ so as to avoid the packed beach and surrounding parklands.
Among the vast numbers of foreign bikini and boardie-clad visitors this year was former England Test cricket captain Michael Vaughan.
While the crowd was well behaved, concerns about the mess left behind sparked an earlier warning issued from the City of Waverley Council to people planning to spend the day at Bronte Park and beach that authorities would be in attendance.
Councillor Joshua Spicer had previously tried to quell local concerns, saying the council planned to implement new clean-up measures this year.
‘This includes extra rangers, security, and police, a dedicated cleaning crew with more bins and waste trucks,’ he posted online on Tuesday.
More to come.
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