BrightonBeach365: Guest: Brighton Beach, Perth

Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Guest: Brighton Beach, Perth

Fed up of the English winter, the rain, the wind, the cold? Well, welcome to the first of this columns’s guest Brighton Beaches - where the temperature is over 30 degrees, and the sun is shining all day long.

Brighton Beach is considered ‘a little local secret’ just to the south of Perth’s famous surf spot, Scarborough Beach, but less crowded and with clean white sand. If the sea breeze is up, according to Tourism Western Australia, you can watch the windsurfers and kitesurfers, or get in the water and ‘grab some of the wave and wind action yourself’.

Scarboro Info says: ‘Brighton Beach is the ideal Indian Ocean vacation destination to relax and meet the beautiful people of Perth who know Brighton beach, a locality of the Perth suburb of Scarborough [which] has the best white sand surf beach in Australia.’

Or can you? Is it safe to go in the water?

Only three weeks ago, hundreds of beachgoers had to flee the beach after a tiger shark was spotted meters from the shore. A rescue helicopter spotted the 3m shark just off Brighton Beach, and a witness said a lifeguard confirmed the shark sighting before closing the beach. The scare came one day after a teenager was bitten by a shark of an unknown species at a Mandurah beach, 50 miles south. And only a few days ago, a ‘monster shark’ came dangerously close to swimmers at Whitfords Beach, 8 miles north of Brighton Beach. The West Australian and MSN.

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