Mark Twain famously said ‘Golf is a good walk … ruined’. Bondi locals possibly think that Sculpture by the Sea is a good coastal walk ruined not so much by the sculptures as by the thousands of visitors who have flocked to it for the last 19 years. The truth is the perfect, breath-taking beauty of the cliff walk between Bondi and Tamarama doesn’t need the sculptures but the sculptures benefit greatly from the cliff walk.