This series will showcase Western Australia’s southernmost shoreline – from the mouth of the Warren River, through to Point Ann.
In most of the world “magnificent, wild, uncrowded, not even one house within sight” and “easily reached” are mutually exclusive categories.
Not here!
The tannin-stained fresh water in the featured image’s foreground is the Warren River.
(all photos copyright Doug Spencer. Featured image taken at 4.49 pm on 27 October 2016)
This location, in the vast D’Entrecasteaux National Park, is the subject of tomorrow’s post, which begins the series-proper.
This series’ final location, pictured below, is more than 400 kilometres east of the Warren’s mouth.
Point Ann – where the so-called “rabbit-proof” fence once met the sea – sits within another vast national park.
Fitzgerald River National Park is every bit as magnificent as D’Entrecasteaux National Park, but utterly different.
Botanically, “the Fitz” is one of the wonders of the world.
If you wish to observe whales, but remain on terra firma, Point Ann is WA’s best location.
Circa midway between the Warren’s mouth and Point Ann sits a particularly exquisite, albeit unimaginatively named beach.
We have many times walked Little Beach’s squeaking sand.
It is just an easy, short drive away from this region’s largest town – its one “city”, by Australian reckoning.
We have never had to share it with more than a handful of other humans….more than once, my beloved and I were the only humans there.
With a single exception, a non-demanding drive in a normal 2WD car will get you to within a very short, easy walk of every location in this series.