Coral Coast
Coral Bay
A one-street village on the southern Ningaloo Reef where you snorkel live coral five metres off the beach, swim with whale sharks Mar-Aug, and meet humpbacks under the world's first regulated whale-swim programme.
Destinations
Every main destination in Western Australia
Tours, attractions, caravan parks and local guides — all organised by place. Sam pulls these together from what our team's actually visited and what travellers tell us is worth the detour. Pick a destination to start planning.
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Coral Coast
Coral Bay
Greater Perth
Perth
Kings Park, Cottesloe sunset, Rottnest ferry and Australia's sunniest capital.
South West
Margaret River
Premium wine, surf breaks, limestone caves and old-growth karri forest 3 hours south of Perth.
Greater Perth
Rottnest Island
Car-free island 19 km off Fremantle — quokkas, bike loops and 63 beaches.
Kimberley
Broome
Cable Beach camel sunsets, Staircase to the Moon and gateway to the Kimberley.
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Coral Coast
Exmouth & Ningaloo
Whale-shark swims, Ningaloo Reef snorkel straight off the beach and Cape Range gorges.
All destinations
Kimberley
Derby
Derby is the smaller, less-polished Kimberley gateway town — gateway to the Horizontal Falls, the Buccaneer Archipelago, the Gibb River Road and the 11-metre tides of King Sound.
Pilbara
Karratha
Karratha is the Pilbara's working capital and the easiest base for visiting Murujuga's million-plus rock engravings, Millstream-Chichester's spring-fed pools and the Dampier Archipelago.
Goldfields-Esperance
Kalgoorlie
Super Pit gold mine, Edwardian main street and stepping stone to the Nullarbor.
Goldfields-Esperance
Esperance
Lucky Bay kangaroos, white-sand beaches and Cape Le Grand National Park.
Pilbara
Karijini
Hamersley Range gorges — Circular Pool, Kermits Pool and iron-ore-country canyons.
South Coast
Albany
The Gap, Middleton Beach and the windswept south coast's original colonial port.
Gascoyne
Carnarvon
Carnarvon is WA's tropical-fruit river town and gateway to the Gascoyne — banana and mango plantations along the river, NASA's old Apollo tracking station, the One Mile Jetty heritage precinct and 20-metre blowholes up the Quobba coast.
Coral Coast
Coral Coast
Shark Bay, Monkey Mia dolphins, Kalbarri, Pinnacles and the full western-coast drive north of Perth.
Kimberley
Fitzroy Crossing
Central Kimberley service town and gateway to the three Devonian Reef gorges: Geikie (Danggu), Tunnel Creek and Windjana, on the mighty Fitzroy River.
Coral Coast
Geraldton
Geraldton is Western Australia's Mid-West capital — 420 km north of Perth, the launching point for the Houtman Abrolhos Islands and the Batavia shipwreck story, and home to the HMAS Sydney II Memorial on Mount Scott.
Kimberley
Halls Creek
Central-eastern Kimberley town and the staging post for Purnululu (Bungle Bungle), Wolfe Creek Crater, China Wall and Old Halls Creek.
Kimberley
Kununurra
Kununurra is the East Kimberley's service town and tourism base — a small irrigation-belt town on Lake Kununurra, 70 km north of Lake Argyle, and the launchpad for Purnululu (the Bungle Bungles), Mitchell Falls, El Questro and the eastern Gibb River Road.
Coral Coast
Monkey Mia
Monkey Mia is the small red-sand crescent on Shark Bay where wild bottlenose dolphins swim in to the shallows most mornings under DBCA supervision — plus Francois Peron's red dunes, Hamelin Pool stromatolites, Shell Beach and Steep Point all within a day's drive.
Pilbara
Port Hedland
Port Hedland is the Pilbara's working coastal town — the world's largest iron-ore export port by tonnage — with a tidal lagoon at Pretty Pool, flatback turtles nesting at Cemetery Beach from October to March, the staircase-to-the-moon on full-moon nights, and Karijini National Park four hours south.
Kimberley
Wyndham
Wyndham is the northernmost town in WA — a working port on Cambridge Gulf with the Big Croc out the front, the Five Rivers Lookout above it, and Parry Lagoons' Ramsar wetlands an easy drive away.
Greater Perth
Fremantle
Heritage port, weekend markets, craft brewers and WA's maritime museum district.
Coral Coast
Pinnacles Desert
Limestone pillar-country in Nambung National Park — a 2-hour day trip up the Indian Ocean Drive.