Cape Le Grand National Park

Cape Le Grand protects 320 square kilometres of granite headlands, banksia heath and blindingly white beaches on Nyungar country on the south coast of Western Australia. The park is best known for Lucky Bay, which has held the official title of whitest beach sand in Australia since CSIRO testing in 2017. The sand here measures a brightness of 97 percent, making it brighter than printer paper.

The park has five main beaches (Lucky Bay, Hellfire, Thistle Cove, Little Hellfire, and the long Cape Le Grand Beach) all connected by the Le Grand Coastal Trail, a 15 kilometre one way track between granite headlands. Frenchman Peak, a dome-shaped granite outcrop in the middle of the park, has a steep 3 kilometre return climb to a summit arch that was carved out by wave action when sea levels were much higher.

The kangaroos at Lucky Bay are western grey kangaroos. They are wild and have free access to the beach and the campground, and regularly end up lying on the sand in the early morning. The campground fills up in school holidays and bookings open months in advance.