Do you think this is Australia’s best beach?
<p>Aussies are proud of their beaches. As a whopping <a href="https://blog.id.com.au/2014/population/demographic-trends/how-centralised-is-australias-population/">85 per cent of Australians</a> have decided to live around the coastline, or at least living within 50km of the coastline, going to the beach is a welcome Aussie pastime.</p>
<p>TripAdvisor has released their list of <a href="https://www.tripadvisor.com.au/TravelersChoice-Beaches">Best Beaches</a> around the world and have ruffled a few feathers in the process. The company compiles a list of the top 25 beaches based off reviews and star rankings from the millions of reviews that are on the site at any given day.</p>
<p>Therefore, the list of TripAdvisor’s top 10 beaches worldwide is as follows:</p>
<ol>
<li>Baia do Sancho — Fernando de Noronha, Brazil</li>
<li>Varadero Beach — Varadero, Cuba</li>
<li>Eagle Beach — Palm — Eagle Beach, Aruba</li>
<li>La Concha Beach — San Sebastian — Donostia, Spain</li>
<li>Grace Bay Beach — Providenciales, Turks and Caicos</li>
<li>Clearwater Beach — Clearwater, Florida</li>
<li>Spiaggia dei Conigli — Sicily, Italy</li>
<li>Seven Mile Beach — Seven Mile Beach, Cayman Islands</li>
<li>Playa Norte — Isla Mujeres, Mexico</li>
<li>Seven Mile Beach — Negril, Jamaica.</li>
</ol>
<p>Notice a glaring omission from that list?</p>
<p>That’s right. No Australian beaches even cracked the top 10 of the world’s best beaches. The beach that did make the list? Manly Beach at no. 18.</p>
<p>Many Aussies were furious that the beach that made the list was Manly Beach.</p>
<p>“Has ‘TripAdvisor’ actually visited any of these beaches??” someone wrote on Facebook.</p>
<p>“By NO MEANS is Manly the best beach in Sydney, possibly one of the easiest to get to but … it’s commercial / concrete / being destroyed by tourists who don’t seem to understand litter kills sea life. Personally I would say Tamarama is by far more pretty,” Someone wrote on Facebook.</p>
<p>“Sydney beaches are always cold and dirty,” someone else wrote. “Queensland leave all Sydney beaches for dead.”</p>
<p>And another person, commented, “Sydney beaches have nothing on Newcastle beaches.”</p>
<p>Scroll through the gallery to see what the TripAdvisor best beaches winners look like.</p>
<p>Do you think they are they better than Australian beaches? Let us know in the comments.</p>
