It is arguably unusual to find such choice real estate with views to the Indian Ocean not only preserved as open land, but also to find that it is entirely unmanaged and there is no encouragement to enter it, much less use it. See below for link to google map.
The origin of this space is yet to be ascertained. The first (?) portion of this estate, the Yanchep Beach Estate launched by Peet & Co sometime in the mid-1960s (a guesstimate based on the appearance of the Yanchep Beach Estate catalogue found at the State LIbrary of WA) included all of Wilkie Avenue and a small section of Kaiber Avenue, i.e. the west and north boundaries of the block in question. Access space was made between lots 47 and 46, and lots 41 and 40, through from Wilkie, but at the time of the initial launch there was nothing to access to - at least, as far as the published plan was concerned. Lots 86 (at the western end of Wilkie) and 67 (on the western side of Wilkie adjoining a 'footway' from Smith Court to Wilkie) were designated 'Public Open Space' and 'Open Space' respectively. The only other point of (nominal) interest is that the street names were claimed to be 'of historical importance' in the initial Peet booklet: they were the surnames of the men involved in an ill-fated overland expedition in the region. Smith, for whom Smith Court is named, died in the Yanchep area. (Yanchep Beach Estate booklet, PR8679/YAN/4 in Battye Library, State Library of Western Australia)
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