Yanchep Beach

Don't you just love Western Australia...

Just another ripper day by the seaside and this time we are at the beach known as 'the spot' Yanchep Beach, it's where the shipwreck Alex T. Brown a four masked US built wooden schooner stuffed up and ran ashore back in 1917.

Could you ask for a better day out then today, with a crystal clear sky and beautiful golden sands and sapphire blue seas lapping our sand crusted toes. You just can't help but let the aussie poet out of you...

Here is the last remaining parts of the shipwreck that is above the sand dunes, fairdinkum there's not much left hay.

A photo of the Alex T. Brown it was a 788-ton, wooden 4-masted wooden schooner built by the Globe Construction Co. in Ballard, Puget Sound, Washington, USA. was bound from Fremantle to Manila when run ashore, the schooner was blown ashore north of Perth during a gale about midnight on 29th May 1917. The tug Wyola was dispatched to attempt to tow Alex T. Brown off the beach but could not approach close enough to assist, and despite numerous attempts by the captain and crew the Alex T. Brown was unable to be refloated... Bugger.