Facilities in the area include a boat launching ramp and a campground with flushing toilets and showers.

[9] In about 1848, sandalwood cutters arrived in the area,[10] The Surveyor-General of Western Australia, John Septimus Roe, visited the Cape in October 1848 as part of this 1848–49 expedition and reorganised his supplies while staying with the Cheyne family.

[13] In the 1890s the schooner Grace Darling provided supplies and delivered the mail on its monthly run between Albany and Esperance.

[14] A number of botanists and explorers conducted plant collections in the area in the mid-19th century including Ludwig Preiss (1840), James Drummond (1840, 1846–48) John Septimus Roe (1848) and William Henry Harvey (1854).

Plant species which were formally described based on these collections included Moirs wattle (Acacia moirii), sheath cottonhead (Conostylis vaginata), tallerack (Eucalyptus pleurocarpa), autumn featherflower (Verticordia harveyi) and Bossiaea preissii.