It was once flooded with blood, linked to convicts, synonymous with slaughter and haunted by pirates. But now, Misery Beach is the shock winner of the official 'Australia's Best Beach' award for 2022.
But Wellington says Albany had been hugely popular with domestic visitors during the pandemic, and hopes the Misery Beach award will make the region a greater draw for foreign tourists in the future.
But some escaped, according to Sue Lefroy, local history coordinator for the City of Albany. These desperate men fled to the forests and beaches surrounding Albany and typically resorted to crime to survive, even piracy.It was in that Wild West environment that Australia's first pirate emerged in 1826.
"When whalers approached the beach by boat, the way the sun would hit the beach's rock face in the afternoons made it look like a frowning face. The other school of thought is that the misery name referred to the killing of whales that happened around there, and the color of the water and the awful smell from that activity."Tourists can learn about this era at the large and impressiveIt was the last whaling post in all of Australia before it was shut in 1978.
Alongside that station, to its west, is the stunning Cheyne Beach, another of the countless majestic strips of sand in this untamed nook of WA.The pandemic has only made Albany and its surrounds an even more attractive location, according to Catrin Allsop, CEO of Australia's South West, the tourism body that manages this region.
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