5-494: The Locke Estate is an area of Crown land located on the coast of Geographe Bay near Caves Road approximately 10 kilometres (6 mi) west of the town of Busselton . Comprising an area of 37.5 hectares (93 acres), the estate was designated an A-Class Reserve in the 1920s for the purposes of "Recreational Campsites and Group Holiday accommodation". The estate was divided into 16 sites which have been leased to churches and community organisations at minimal rates. The presence of
10-572: A bridge was built from the reserve across the Buayanyup River to link two previously isolated populations of western ringtail possums . Geographe Bay Geographe Bay is in the south-west of Western Australia , around 220 kilometres (140 mi) southwest of Perth . The bay was named in May 1801 by French explorer Nicolas Baudin , after his ship, Géographe . It is a wide curve of coastline extending from Cape Naturaliste past
15-402: The southern hemisphere , was built. Royal Australian Navy frigate HMAS Swan was sunk in the bay off the town of Dunsborough on 14 December 1997, for use as a dive wreck . The bay also attracts whale watchers , who see it as an alternative to Flinders Bay , and the north-west part of the bay is the location of a number of surf breaks . The environment of the drainage systems into
20-517: The church sites throughout the estate has led to the area being known locally as the "Holy Mile". The Locke Estate provides low-cost accommodation along one of the most expensive real estate locations in the South West region of Western Australia . As an A-Class Reserve the land cannot be sold and has the highest level of protection. The estate was gazetted as a nature reserve with a size of 222 hectares (550 acres) on 11 February 1992. In 2018,
25-470: The towns of Dunsborough and Busselton , ending near the city of Bunbury . Protected from the rough seas of the Indian Ocean by Cape Naturaliste (named after Naturaliste ), which makes it a popular destination for recreational boaters, the bay is extremely shallow, limiting the entrance of large ships. To alleviate this problem the two-kilometre-long (1.2 mi) Busselton Jetty , the longest in
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