White sand at Cape Le Grand
White sand, clear water and no one around for kilometres. We had missed this.
Cape Le Grand, near Esperance, gave us one of those beach scenes that scarcely needs improving with words. Pale sand curves around the water, the rocks add a bit of shape to the shore, and there is space everywhere you look.
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