Hamelin Bay: Forest Meet the Sea
Hamelin Bay is a bay and a locality on the south-west coast of Western Australia between Cape Leeuwin and Cape Naturaliste. It is named after French explorer Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin who sailed through the area in about 1801. It is south of Cape Freycinet.
To the north, the beach leads to the Boranup Sand Patch and further to the mouth of the Margaret River, while south leads to Cape Leeuwin. The nearest locality to the east is Karridale on the Margaret River to Augusta road.
It was also a small settlement and port in Western Australia on the coast of the Leeuwin-Naturaliste Ridge.
With all the beaches, the Indian Ocean in this area, it’s also hard to grasp that in this same area is dense forest. We like to go through Boranup Forest, and one particular lookout is beautiful. Here is a movie showing how lovely it is looking from above.
Looking at the map above, you can see we had already covered a lot of area for one day coming from Perth, but we weren’t done yet. Stay tuned.
