A few of my favourite things…
Unusually white sand that squeaks when bare feet walk across it.
Unpolluted, refreshing cool, brilliantly blue water.
Magnificent vistas in which other humans and built structures are nowhere in sight, or just a small presence in an otherwise natural environment.
Anyone who loves the above – especially when they all co-exist in a place that is not hard to reach – will surely love the south coast of Western Australia.
Two Peoples Bay Nature Reserve is particularly splendid, and it is rather less than one easy hour’s drive from Albany.
As illustrated in all of this post’s images, the aforementioned kind of sand has a profoundly positive impact on the visual appeal of relatively shallow water, immediately above it.
The featured image shows Little Beach, as it was at 2.40 pm on 19 September 2020.
As you will see in this series’ very next chapter, that afternoon’s weather was about to change.
I took the above photo at 3.10 pm on 24 March 2021, whilst standing on the southwestern end of East Bay’s great arc of a beach, which runs along much of Two Peoples Bay.
The kayaker was a local person; he had just caught a substantial number of King George whiting.
A few minutes later, we were on Little Beach, which is on the other side of the nearby headland.
East Bay’s much bigger beach is grand in its own right, but Little Beach is altogether more exquisite.
There is no such thing as “Australia’s best beach”, and Australian beachgoers are very “spoilt for choice”.
However, “better” beaches than Little Beach simply do not exist.
This link will lead you to some previously published Two Peoples Bay posts; they are best viewed in “bottom to top” order.
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