The drive in to Bremer Bay along the Bremer - Boxwood Rd carries along a flat expanse across sandplain country, the few bends skirting the nationally significant Pabelup Wetlands system. This impressive chain of wetlands extends well into the Fitzgerald River National Park to the east and is home to swamp yate and paperbark woodlands and nesting and feeding grounds to many water birds. The wetlands teem with life when rains fill them.
The sandplain country is dominated by Banksia, chittick, and mallee. It holds both showy and cryptic features, in spring the amazing red banksia is in full flower, with bull banksia and the forest trees jarrah and marri running out at their eastern limit along here where they share the ecosystem with more extravagant south coast shrubland plants.
To the south behind the beach are the low hills of the Warramarup limestone formation, these support mallee and peppermint thickets and rich kwongan heathlands. This formation is of recent origin being made up of lime loaded sands deposited and concreted into stone over the last several thousand years.

The sixty kilometre long drive into Bremer Bay from the South Coast Highway culminates in the Wellstead Estuary and the spectacular granite headlands of the three peninsulas of Cape Knob, Point Henry/Gordon and Hood Point and the Doubtful Islands. These dominant features and the crisp white beaches provide the dramatic natural character of Bremer Bay. The estuary is home to many fish, crustaceans and waterbirds, and the ocean is clear and abounds with remarkable marine life including corals, countless fish, leafy sea dragons, seabirds, seals, and whales.

In the east, the sharper pointed low mountains are the bizarre peaks of the Mount Barrens dominating the 330,000 hectare Fitzgerald River National Park. Made up of hardened sand and silt, these “mountains” are in fact the remains of an ancient river delta that was turned to stone by the action of Australia rifting off Antarctica and then being exposed by hundreds of millions of years of eroding forces on one of the most ancient land surfaces on earth. The Barrens have completely unique native plant systems and are home to around 70 specialised and spectacular wildflowers that are found nowhere else.

The picture located at the top of the page is of Bremer Moort, a very attractive tree only known from Bremer Bay, it is widely planted, yet its only wild population of a few thousand trees is next to the Wellstead Estuary. It typifies what a unique place in the nature of south-western Australia Bremer Bay is.