Penrith’s beach named ‘Pondi’ reopens in time for summer

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Penrith beach will officially reopen today in Sydney’s west, in time for summer. More than 215-thousand people visited the beach from December to April this year.

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00:00It's not the weather we were expecting for the reopening of Penrith Beach, but we are

00:05seeing very small crowds starting to trickle in now that it's reopened for its second session.

00:12It was open last year from December to April with 200,000, more than 200,000 people making

00:18their way through those months.

00:20There are calls in the community to see it open all year round.

00:23We spoke to the Penrith Mayor a little earlier, he's saying he hopes to see it opened all

00:28year round and to have an agreement with the State Government and the private owners of

00:33this land to ensure that this facility is open for people of Western Sydney.

00:38Obviously there were calls much earlier last month because we were seeing 40 degree days

00:44here in Penrith and a week of 35 degrees, so people were really feeling the heat and

00:50unable to access the facility.

00:52The beach stayed closed and people in Penrith are made to travel around an hour and a half

00:57to reach a beach or the closest beach next to them.

01:00So this will be open until April, but those discussions will be continuing.

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