Scarborough (Western Australia)
Scarborough is a suburb in the north of Perth, Western Australia on the Indian Ocean with a population of about 12,000 ( including 25 % foreigners ), which belongs to the autonomous County City of Stirling. It is named after the homonymous resort on the North Sea coast of North Yorkshire in England.
Cityscape
Scarborough is run by two 4-lane boulevards ( West Coastal Highway in north-south direction and Scarborough Road in west-east direction) cut. In between are smaller streets with heterogeneous buildings, some simple one- and two-family houses, but partly also more representative magnificent villas.
Parallel to the beach runs, separated from it by a green strip, the palm-lined esplanade and Araucaria with spacious parking lots, apartments, cafes and fast food restaurants. Architecturally out of the frame falls a dominant high-rise complex, which houses a 1986 built by the major Australian investor Alan Bond luxury hotel; it claims for itself to be the only Western Australia, located directly on the beach.
At the Scarborough Beach Road and surrounding streets, there are other dining facilities, shops, bars, pubs and nightclubs. Saturday is traded on the Scarborough Fair Markets junk.
Beach
The main attraction of Scarborough, the Scarborough Beach.
Geographically, this is part of the Sunset Coast in its southern, urban-influenced section of about 30 km north of metropolitan Perth stretches with sandy beaches and its inhabitants north together with the Cottesloe Beach and City Beach to the south and the Trigg Beach and Sorrento Beach Scarborough in particular serves on the weekends as a recreational area.
Scarborough Beach is the favored surf beach the Sunset Coast. There is a surf school and a corresponding club. In the summer months the beach is guarded with little wind and weak waves as the sun and beach. In the winter months it is recommended for its dangerous undercurrents in strong winds only for experienced surfers. Windsurfing and kite surfing are also popular sports.