After quite a few posts inland, we’re heading to the sea again. I’ll concentrate on our visit to D’Entrecasteaux National Park, which is located on the coast south of Pemberton.

D’Entrecasteaux’s name pops up a few times along Australian shores because he was one of the first explorers to chart our shores. The reason he was out here at all was to search for La Perouse who disappeared off the east coast some 3 years before (there is a suburb in Sydney named after him). D’entrecasteaux’s mark is all over Tasmania (Bruny Island is named after him), but I knew less about his Western Australian place names.

We visited Point D’Entrecasteaux, half way along the national park coast. The only settlement is the fishing hamlet of Windy Harbour, consisting of a row of fibro fishing cottages, a boat ramp, and stretches of beach between boulders. On the horizon is the uninhabited Sandy Island.