Cape LeeuwinCape Leeuwin. Next, down the coast to where the Southern and Indian Oceans meet. The scenery was beautiful; it was very windy. The sea was crashing over the rocks and washing onto the sandy white beaches.
The water was clear and a pretty greeny blue color. The long stretches of beach were broken up by rugged rock formations. As we got nearer to the Cape, in the distance we could see the white Lighthouse against the vivid blue sky. It was surrounded by low lying green coastal bushland.
This is indeed treacherous coastline and many a life was lost along its shores. There are many sections of rocks and small rocky islands along the coast and must have been a terrible hazard for the the old sailing ships before the Lighthouse was built in 1895.
Many ships have sailed passed by or visited this coast in the early days. Some of the earliest ones - 1622 - The Dutch trading ship Leeuwin. 1801 - Matthew Flinders in the Investigator, started mapping the Australian coast. 1802 - Napoleon Bonaparte's Scientific expedition ships, the Naturaliste and the Geographe.
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