It's hardly exclusive to WA or anything though. A lot of NSW & QLD is like that too. Victoria also has some of the most famous beaches in Australia, and for good reason.
Famous beaches: Bells; choppy, pretty uneven, limestony sand. Bondi's probably the most famous and is so bad, the drop is massive and it's packed and it's never settled. Always full of rips and massive sets – sets that don't form nor curl properly so aren't even good for surfing. Manly's alright though. But even Perth's most famous beaches, like Cottesloe, aren't that great – Cott is full of limestone, you can't really have a decent swim there because it's always packed and you have to constantly keep reminding yourself how deep you are or if you're about to stub your toe. Essentially, the fame of the beach means bupkis. Real talk.
Famous beaches does not instantly equate to Bells, Bondi and Manly. That's casual beachgoer talk, no one in surf culture really talks all that much about Bondi and Manly. I grew up doing nippers and surfing all through my childhood, and was a surf lifeguard all through high school, in a small town that has produced several superstars of surfing and Ironman (including the Wrights who grew up just down the road from me) and have been up and down the entire east coast, so I know what I'm talking about. Viewing Victoria through the lens of Bells/St Kilda is a mistake.
Yeah, alright, no worries man
I haven't gotten into them hugely yet, but I think they are overrated. Their lows aren't very low, their highs really high – amazing stuff – but the album fodder is far from anything astounding.
I grew up in Mira Mar, ten minute as mosey-pace by foot to Mids... you don't know how good you can have it until you have that.
Frenchman's Stiff not to get a mention! Two People's has to be one of the most underrated beaches in the world, though, no hyperbole. It even makes Mids look wind-swept. This is all without even mentioning Emu Point – what a nice suburb in the middle of summer at 5pm, by the way – which was never a beach I liked but still one 90% of towns would give a lot to have. I just think Mids, for a main beach, is pretty amazing: how long would it be? The harbour, the trees, the way it's always got a good atmosphere but never gets packed out.
A couple of things, Odyssey Number Five is mainstream. That doesn't make it bad at all, it just means it's popular, and for good reason.
No s**t, but it is wavy and choppy. If it's going to be an unpleasant swimming beach, it'd be okay if it was actually surfable. Alas they're all shapeless and have no decent sections. Overpopulated, the sand isn't that nice to sit on, and if you can't just swim then you'd hope the surf was alright, which it isn't – which was what I was saying.People don't go to Bondi for the waves...
How much of the east coast have you actually seen? Or are you just repeating things you've heard or read.
Yes, but the nicest ones are always best kept secret.
In the sense that you rate Pitchfork so low that even NME is superior?
That is a great album but personally don't find it as good as the four studio albums. The Smiths IMO are a very good band. I listen to them in cycles and have never been disappointed.
