The Basin
Reef-sheltered swimming cove with calm, clear turquoise water and jagged limestone headlands.
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About this audio guide
This guide to The Basin, Rottnest Island's famously calm swimming cove near Perth, sets its long reputation as the world's safest swimming spot against one wild December night in twenty twenty-four. You'll hear how a gathering of hundreds of unsupervised school leavers turned an ordinary evening at the cove into a stand-off with police. It also traces the nineteen seventies praise that gave the Basin its reputation in the first place.
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