City Beach
Wide, white-sand suburban beach with a shore break popular for surfing and free beach volleyball courts.
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About this audio guide
This guide to City Beach in Perth centers on nineteen fifty-three, when a sixteen-year-old named Ray Geary and a handful of mates started chasing waves few Australians had discovered yet. It follows the makeshift gear they turned to when the cold Indian Ocean got the better of them, borrowed from a very different world entirely. Along the way it touches the surf club that has patrolled this same sand since the nineteen twenties, and the volleyball courts still free to use at the beach's northern end.
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