Once stained by blood, Misery Beach is now Australia’s top stretch of sand

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But now, Misery Beach is the shock winner of the official “Australia’s Best Beach” award for 2022. Flanked by a giant rock face and lapped by calm waters, this spectacular beach has long shed it sinister past as a whaling station and hideaway for escaped convicts who looted ships along the south coast of Western Australia (WA).
Little known even in WA, Misery Beach claimed the title ahead of its renowned tropical counterparts like Blue Pearl Bay in Queensland.
Awarded each year by Tourism Australia, it’s a big deal in a country that claims to have more beaches than any other in the world — somewhere in the range of 12,000. The latest list of Australia’s top 20 beaches, announced in early February, includes spots in every one of the country’s states and territories.
Misery Beach, Australia’s ‘best beach’ for 2022. Frances Andrijich Photography Misery Beach is in a remote location 400 kilometers (nearly 250 miles) south of WA’s capital, Perth, near the pretty oceanside center of Albany.
That absence of Covid-19 is partly due to the fact WA has been shut to foreign tourists for almost two years now, and has also been strict in permitting tourism from other Australian states.