Secret Harbour: Beach, Surfing and Golf

When considering Secret Harbour as a destination, you can focus on several specific options that match your interests: the beach, surfing, golf, or a ride or run along the coast. These activities differ in character and can help you decide what you would like to shape your stay.

Beach and seasonal supervision

Secret Harbour Beach is supervised on weekends and public holidays from October to the end of March. From early December to the end of January, professional lifeguards also patrol the beach on weekdays. If these times matter to your plans, check the seasonal information before you travel.

There are waves at Secret Harbour Surf Beach year-round, and visitors can learn to surf there. The beach has showers. These details help distinguish the beach offerings: supervision at Secret Harbour Beach applies during the periods listed, while Secret Harbour Surf Beach is notable for its year-round waves and opportunities to learn to surf.

Golf, cycling and running

Secret Harbour Golf Course is an 18-hole links course designed by Graham Marsh. So, alongside activities on the water, the area also offers golf as a distinct focus. When looking for a hotel, you could first consider whether you mainly plan to enjoy the beach and surfing, play golf, or get active along the coast; these interests offer different ways to spend time in Secret Harbour.

A cycle path connects Secret Harbour with the Rockingham foreshore. It provides an option for a ride or run along the coast. This is a different choice from spending time at the beach or playing a round of golf: the path is described as a connection to the foreshore and a way to get active along the coast.

More water activities in the City of Rockingham

The wider destination of the City of Rockingham offers additional water-related activities along its regional coastline. The Rockingham coastline stretches for 37 kilometres. The Shoalwater Islands Marine Park Paddle is an eight-kilometre kayak trail along the Rockingham coastline. The protected Shoalwater Islands Marine Park is home to dolphins, seals, penguins and pelicans; Cape Peron offers coastal views across the marine park.

Activities also vary across this wider region. Point Peron offers opportunities for shore diving and snorkelling among limestone caves and swim-throughs. Point Peron is also mentioned as a place to kayak and stand-up paddleboard. The Pond in Safety Bay is a spot for windsurfing and kitesurfing. These activities are available in the City of Rockingham and are not descriptions of Secret Harbour itself.

Nature and culture in the City of Rockingham

The Anne Mueller Environmental Walk is an easy, three-kilometre loop around Lake Richmond. It is rich in birdlife, including Australian pelicans, black swans, Australian shelducks, Pacific black ducks, white-faced herons and common greenshanks. A boardwalk at Lake Richmond also provides a view of a threatened thrombolite community. If you are weighing up walking and nature observation as different interests, there are two specific features around the lake: the loop trail and its birdlife, and the viewpoint overlooking the thrombolite community.

For a cultural focus, the Rockingham Museum features exhibitions about Rockingham’s history, intended to inform and educate visitors and children. The museum is housed in an Art Deco building, the former Rockingham Road Board Building, dating from 1946/47. Rockingham Arts Centre offers professionally curated exhibitions, workshops and development programs. Day Cottage is one of Rockingham’s oldest surviving houses and a rare example of a colonial-era limestone cottage. Each of these regional places has a different focus: history at the museum, art at the Centre, and colonial-era architecture at Day Cottage.

The City of Rockingham is about a 45-minute drive or train ride from Perth. When looking for accommodation in Secret Harbour, you can distinguish local interests—the beach, surfing, golf and the coastal cycle path—from additional experiences in the wider destination.

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