A site of significant importance to the local aboriginal people, Cape Leveque is a place of seemingly staggering beauty. Bright red cliffs fringed with white sand and an azure blue sea combine to make this location one of the most stunning natural sights you’ll ever see.

Cape Leveque has been on our must see list since we started planning our Big Lap of Australia. It is very remote and accessible only by 4WD vehicles or aircraft, which means it is off the day-trippers list, for now, and the beach remains crowd free. It is, however, possible to camp here or ‘Glamp’ for those in need of more creature comforts, and the reward is the evening sun setting on the cliffs causing them to glow even more than our early afternoon visit.

This is definitely a place to return to in the future. Sadly our time here was limited giving time only for a few photographs before heading further south this time on a larger 4WD bus to take in some additional passengers.

It would be the perfect spot for an aerial photograph but yet again there was an airfield within 5.5KM preventing drone flights above 100-grammes. This has been a source of frustration for months but understandable for safety reasons when airfields are often sited next to such remote locations.

Punishing dirt road

Our drive back towards Broome was on 95KM of temporary dirt road while the main dirt ‘highway’ was being rebuilt in advance of the next wet season. Fortunately I managed to sleep through much of it with the exception of a brief diversion at Beagle Bay to visit the Sacred Heart Church, internally decorated with inlaid mother-of-pearl.

It had been a long day (12-hours door to door) but the highlight of our trip around Australia to date.Expensive for sure but worth every cent. A huge adrenaline rush on the falls, stunning scenery at Cape Leveque, sharks a plenty, a salty crocodile and two seaplane flights over the Buccaneer Archipelago. Wow. And to top off the day, drinks with great friends as we watch the sun set into the Indian Ocean.

That is going to take some beating… but then we’ve only just started our Western Australia coastal journey.