What's the winter like in Perth

[casanovawa]

Sounds like your overly worried about coming to Perth, maybe somewhere else will suit better??

Be sensible and bring some warm and maybe some not so warm clothes... We're even big enough that we have some clothes shops here that you can buy some clothes if you didn't pack several suit cases worth... You don't say where your coming from for some odd reason, but we have one of the milder winters compared to most places in the world...

Some of this stuff sounds absurd or like you're trying to take the mickey....

 

[Daver6]

One isolated event.

More people win Lotto in Australia each year than get eaten by a shark or barbed by a stingray. And far, far more die in road crashes.

I get the impression the OP is just on a fishing expedition.

 

[jakeseven7]

I get the impression the OP is just on a fishing expedition.

For sharks?

 

[AisleSeat]

For sharks?

And stingrays

 

[kookaburra75]

Maybe you didn't hear of such a thing in person, but articles about people being barbed are out there:
perth stingray attack - Google Search
Even more articles may be missing due to australian government chasing Google for indexing news without a formal agreement.

The Australian government also uses ASIO (a federal agency) to cleanse Google of drop bear attacks, because it is VERY bad for tourism. I think once the government bans Google they won't have to worry about it though.
Anyway, back on Perth - drop bears can be found in the coastal areas - in the dunes near the beaches, so if you don't hang around the dunes too much and just go straight to the beach you will be fine.
The drop bears don't go near the salt water - probably for the same reason you do, because of the sharks, sting rays etc. Very sensible.

It probably has more to do with the fact that Australians are genetically programmed to spread as much disinformation on what Australia is really like, when outside Australia, or to visitors from abroad. When telling such tales, if the visitor takes a keen interest - leans in and says "...really...", then an Australian will automatically increase the level of "un-believeability" of the story, usually to astronomical levels.

And Drop Bears are real

 

[drron]

though the rate of shootings in Australia is way less than the USA.
And the rate of stabbings way less than the UK.

Both more than 200 times the rate of shark attacks in WA.

 

[oz_mark]

It's not like the ocean is infested with sharks. You can go to the beach and swim and be fine. With stingrays, you'll be lucky if you see one, and you'll only end up like Steve Irwin if you decide grabbing one would be a good idea.

Although, I have seen a stingray while swimming. Haven't seen a shark yet! (Well, not a shark of any significance. Apologies to any gummy sharks I am calling insignificant)

 

[bresky]

Thank you all for the help. See you there in a couple of weeks.