Australia · Kangaroo Island, South Australia · #10 of Australia's ten by fame
The front door is a maze of caves. The reward is an empty beach.
No photo yet. We don’t lie with pictures.
How we rated it: up one for a sourced find (you crawl through a maze of caves to reach it). Nothing on record takes it down.
To reach Stokes Bay, Time Out says, you crawl through a maze of caves. It is on the north coast of Kangaroo Island, a 40-minute drive from Kingscote, the largest of a run of coves along that shore. There is a toilet block and a café near the car park. Lonely Planet says to time your visit for low tide and keep an eye on the sea. Time Out calls it free from crowds. We measured 490 metres; Lonely Planet says 500.
February: the warmest sea and the fewest wet days. Book that.
One year of data, 2025, from Open-Meteo at this beach's coordinates. A rain day is 1 mm or more. The red bar is the month to aim for in each row.
Free from crowds.
A toilet block and a café near the car park.
Drive 40 minutes from Kingscote on Kangaroo Island, then crawl through a maze of caves to the sand.
At low tide, keeping an eye on the sea, says Lonely Planet.
