Mandalay Beach is near Walpole, in Western Australia’s “Deep South”.
I have seen many wild ocean beaches – on every continent, bar Antarctica.
Mandalay Beach – named after a ship that was wrecked there in 1911 – is one of my all time favourites.
It is really wild (do not swim there) but easy to reach; any able-bodied, sensible driver of a 2WD vehicle will easily “manage” both the track that leads off the South Coast Highway and the short walk from car park to beach.
In every direction, the vistas are splendid.
However, you should never forget, also, to keeping look down to the sand at your feet. (ditto the rocks, any clefts therein, and the rock pools)
The buoyancy of many species of seaweeds is provided by gas-filled bladders (pneumatocysts), which have a variety of forms across seaweed taxa.
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I photographed the pictured pneumatocysts whilst walking along Mandalay Beach on 22 February 2024.
Also present:
Click this for access to two Pelican Yoga posts that show some of Mandalay Beach’s aforementioned vistas.
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