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Lucky Bay Located southeast of Esperance , the bay is a tourist spot known for its bright white sands and turquoise -coloured waters. In May 2023, Lucky Bay was voted as the best beach in the world in a study based on the votes of over 750 travel professionals.
Rossiter Bay is on the southern coast of Western Australia, in the Cape Le Grand National Park approximately 36 kilometres (22 mi) east of Esperance.The bay is noted as the place that the explorer Edward John Eyre and his Aboriginal companion Wylie met the crew of the French whaling ship Mississippi in June 1841 after they had completed a crossing of the Nullarbor Plain.
Esperance also has a number of wind turbines supplying electricity to the town. [29] Esperance had the first electrical wind farm in Australia, built at Salmon Beach as a research facility in 1987. In October 2020, a surfer who was a member of the local community in Esperance was killed by a shark at Wylie Bay near the town. [30]
This list of Alabama state parks covers state parks in the Alabama park system. As of 2023, there were 21 official Alabama state parks run in part or exclusively by the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources [ 1 ] and three historic state parks run by other authorities.
With a reservation from the city, Scout troops are welcome to camp there. It is a primitive camping facility. Pre-1960s it was the Mobile Area Council Camp. Frank Spain Scout Reservation: Greater Alabama Council: Delta: Active [1] Also called Camp Sequoyah, a 1,447-acre camp in east central Alabama, near Cheaha State Park. Hugh M. Comer Scout ...
Paul M. Grist State Park is a public recreation area located 17 miles (27 km) north of Selma operated by the government of Dallas County, Alabama. The park offers water activities on a 100-acre (40 ha) lake as well as facilities for camping and picnicking.
Perdido Pass, separating Alabama Point from Florida Point, is the mouth of the Perdido River.Perdido Pass forms a water passage that connects Perdido Bay with the Gulf of Mexico to the south, in the U.S. state of Alabama, 2 miles (3 km) west of the Alabama/Florida state line.
Battleship Parkway, commonly referred to locally and in the media as the "Causeway", is a 7-mile (11.3 km) long causeway that carries US 90 and US 98 eastbound across Mobile Bay from the Bankhead Tunnel on Blakeley Island in Mobile, Alabama to Spanish Fort, Alabama. The roadway itself is a four-lane divided highway for most of its length.