A group of whales has become stranded at a beach in our South West near Marybrook, between Busselton and Dunsborough.
Parks and Wildlife has a team at the incident and is urging the public to stay away.
It comes after around 50 pilot whales died off Cheynes Beach in Albany last year, despite desperate efforts by volunteers who braved the cold water for days as they tried unsuccessfully to usher the whales into deeper water.
WA’s largest mass stranding of whales in 1996 occurred at a beach close to where the whales are today. In that stranding, 320 pilot whales beached themselves, but thankfully 300 were able to be saved.
The whales are stranded near just south of Busselton.