Drone video : Beautiful Brighton Beach , Melbourne

Calm water, colorful huts and historic sea baths make this suburban beach a relaxing and stylish escape from Melbourne's inner-city bustle.
Dive into Port Phillip Bay under the watch of 82 distinctive bathing boxes, a row of uniformly proportioned wooden structures lining the foreshore at Brighton Beach.

Built well over a century ago in response to very Victorian ideas of morality and seaside bathing, the bathing boxes remain almost unchanged. All retain classic Victorian architectural features with timber framing, weatherboards and corrugated iron roofs, though they also bear the hallmarks of individual licencees' artistic and colorful embellishments.

Thanks to these distinctive decorations, the boxes turn the Brighton seaside into an immediately recognizable, iconic seascape that can transform by the hour according to season, light and color. Just try to resist pulling out your camera and snapping away.
Brighton Beach is easily accessible via bus or the Sandringham train that runs along the suburbs of Port Phillip Bay into downtown Melbourne.
Brighton Beach is about a 30-minute drive from downtown Melbourne and there’s a user-pay car park nearby.