SYDNEY, NSW - JANUARY 01:  (EDITORS NOTE: ON CAMERA POLARIZING FILTER USED ON THIS PHOTO) Tourists sit in the shade overlooking a crowded Bondi beach January 1, 2006 in Sydney, Australia. Sydney temperatures soared to up to 42 degrees celcius (107.6 Fahrenheit), the hottest New Year's Day on record. Thousands of people decended on the city's beaches in an attempt to beat the heat.  (Photo by Ian Waldie/Getty Images)