Trigg Beach
Surf beach with a notorious rip, patrolled by a volunteer lifesaving club born from tragedy.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Trigg Beach in Perth centres on the notorious blue hole at Trigg Island, where a nun and the local man who swam out to save her both drowned in nineteen forty-seven. It follows the volunteer surf lifesaving club that rose out of that tragedy six years later, founded by eight men with no equipment and no official backing. You will hear how the district's earlier close calls, and the state body's own resistance, shaped a club that still patrols this same stretch of coast today.
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