Its peerless location on some of the most beautiful coastline in Australia, and its isolation from the more developed seaside resorts, has made it one of those places which people speak about in whispers hoping that  the masses never get to find out about the attractions of this tiny settlement. However it is estimated that the permanent population of about 500 people can increase to up to 4000 in the peak season.

The first Europeans to make contact with the area were Matthew Flinders who, in 1802, sailed the Investigator along the coast charting its beaches and rugged cliffs as he went. By the 1820's the whalers and sealers who hunted in the southern ocean knew of Bremer Bay and used it as a stopover point.

The town was named by Surveyor General John Septimus Roe in honour of Sir James Gordon Bremer, Captain of the Tamar, which sailed into Bremer in 1848. Bremer Bay is located at the mouth of the Bremer River, on the Wellstead Estuary, named after the first settler of the area, John Wellstead, whose family still lives in the area.


Bremer Bay is a thriving town which has a reputation as an ideal holiday location with a variety of things to do.