Soon after 8am on Saturday, volunteer lifeguards from two local surf lifesaving clubs lined the shore of Bondi beach on the first Saturday of patrols since two shooters targeted a Jewish event in a nearby park, killing 15 people.Photograph: Andrew Quilty
As he stood silently facing the waves on the Bondi shoreline, arm in arm with nearly 1,000 other lifesavers, Lockie Cook let himself feel the pain of the community’s most traumatic week in living memory.
“I feel like that guard’s just dropping,” he said.
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