West Cape Howe NP

18th September 2014

West Cape Howe NP is not as visited as other national parks around the Albany area. There are no facilities and a dirt road in.  However, this meant we had the place to ourselves today!

Shelley Beach, West Cape Howe /NP

We started off at the lookout high above Shelley Beach, then went down to the beach for a walk along to the black granite rocks at the end.

Later, we went to Cosy Corner Beach, which was almost as pretty. We saw a number of birds today but they are so hard to photograph; they only land and keep still for a couple of seconds at a time.

We also saw some coastal wildflowers I had not come across before, then 2 snakes in quick succession.  Both the same type of snake which John thought was Tiger, but I think were Dugite as seemed to be a uniform black. Whatever they were, best to avoid them.  The first one was going across the track as we drove down to the beach, the second, which only I saw, was lurking in the coastal scrub outside the dunny. It took off when I approached though.  No way was John going to use that dunny!