Beach vacations do tend to disappoint us. We live at one of the world's top beaches, hard to top that. Perth is a great city. We do try to keep that quiet so it'll remain so. People ruin everything, you know. We have over 35 miles of continuous beach along the Indian Ocean, all white sand, all warmed by the Leeuwin current in the summer, but the water is very cold anyway...that keeps the ocean nasties away, no jellies, no stingers here. It's really perfect ocean swimming, surfing, kite sailing, etc. We have mostly kites at our beach, a few board surfies, body surfies too.