Nature & outdoor wellness in Cottesloe

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 flat sealed path north from the Cottesloe groyne with the water on your left the whole way, which is the point at sunset. About 3km one way to Swanbourne, and there is no hill on it.

An informal ocean swimming community that swims a 2km return from North Cottesloe to the Cottesloe groyne every day of the year, followed by coffee.

Frieda runs yin and vinyasa classes in Claremont and Cottesloe and takes the practice into the bush: yoga hikes — 'yikes' — such as a four-kilometre walk at Bells Rapids followed by a slow-flow class and afternoon tea, and a hike to the Golden View lookout above Mundaring Weir, forty-five minutes east of the city. Longer retreats run in Balingup and overseas. Private one-to-one classes and corporate yoga and pilates round out the calendar.