While staying at Boat Harbour campground, we visited Cape Riche, which is roughly 120km east of Albany. There is a paid campground there, which appeared to be very full when we visited it at the end of December. Being it just a day trip, we did not need any accommodation, so from the campground, we took a 4WD track to access the beach 110 meters east of the south-eastern end of Sandalwood Road. On our way we got lost and ended up in some mysterious forest 😊.
We had to launch a drone to find out how to get to the beach, because there were quite a number of tracks intersecting.
When we got to the beach, it turned out to be an interesting and picturesque place. While the kids busied themselves with digging sand and building sand castles, we explored what was around. The beach was nice and the water was clear, although there was some seaweed washed out on the beach. There were only a couple of vehicles there apart from us and they left shortly.
At the western side of the beach there was an inlet (Cheynes Inlet?) separated from the beach with roughly 50 meters of sand. It looked tranquil and beautiful, especially with a pelican swimming serenely there.
It is a very relaxing place to spend some time. There are also a number of tracks to go 4WDriving.
