PERTH · Beaches & Swim Spots
Hand-checked places in Perth, with prices and reviews where they are published.
Explore free or by-donation beaches & swim spots across Perth, compare the details and choose somewhere that suits your day.
Specialists in beaches & swim spots — 0 Also offering beaches & swim spots — 4
4 places · 4 suburbs
Groynes either side make a sheltered pocket of water, which is why it reads calmer than its neighbours on a breezy morning. Wide lawns, a surf club and a row of places to eat directly behind the sand.
Perth's best-known swimming beach, and the one most people mean when they say they went for a dip. Patrolled through summer, grassed terraces above the sand, and calmest early — the Fremantle Doctor gets up from the south-west most afternoons.
A reef-sheltered lagoon at the northern end of Trigg, flat enough that the name is fair. The reef holds the swell off, which makes it the calm-water option on a coast that mostly is not, and the water is clearest before the wind arrives.
Flat, clear water and noticeably fewer people than the beaches north of it, with the working harbour in view down the coast. The southern end is the quiet end.
4 of the 4 beaches & swim spots listings in the directory match this view. The count is live, and the order puts specialists first — paid placement never moves anyone up it.
As of October 2026, 4 of the 4 Beaches & Swim Spots listings on Oria Haven are in this view (Perth) — counted live from the directory.
Every listing is hand-checked by Oria Haven. Figures updated 8 October 2026.
Most relevant means practices that specialise in this first, then the ones with the most reviews to go on. A listing that publishes its price, describes itself and names its services gets a small nudge, never more than a quarter of a star, because you can decide on it without ringing. Paid placements are shown once, in their own band, and never move anyone up the list.
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About the Reel
The Reel, from Australia’s South West, introduces the floating sauna at Pemberton Pool: two wood-fired sauna rooms on the water with big windows onto the karri forest, and the ritual its caption describes — warm up, step outside into the pool, and repeat.
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Reel by Australia’s South West @australias_southwest · South West, Western Australia
Reel by Australia’s South West, the regional tourism account, posted 12 August 2026 with @floatingsauna_pembertonpool.
It captures the setting and the whole hot–cold ritual — including the dive that deserves a word of caution.
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