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
WA's capital on the Swan River pairs one of the world's largest inner-city parks and a booming river foreshore with genuinely great sunset beaches and an isolated, boom-bust character all its own.
South West
Margaret River
Three hours south of Perth, Margaret River pairs world-class cabernet and chardonnay with a wild surf coast, an underrated cave system, whale-watching capes and towering karri forest.
Greater Perth
Rottnest Island
Rottnest Island is the car-free island off Fremantle famous for tame quokkas and turquoise bays, but its 93 years as an Aboriginal prison colony are just as real a part of its story.
Kimberley
Broome
Broome is the Kimberley's pearling-era gateway town, famous for Cable Beach's sunset camel trains, a multicultural diving history, and the extraordinary Staircase to the Moon.
Coral Coast
Exmouth & Ningaloo
Exmouth is the gateway to Ningaloo Reef, a rare fringing reef you can snorkel straight off the beach, world-famous for whale shark swims and backed by the gorges of Cape Range National Park.
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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
Founded in 1826, nearly three years before Perth, Albany pairs WA's most moving military heritage site with dramatic granite coastline, whale watching and spring wildflowers on the wild south coast.
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
El Questro Wilderness Park
El Questro Wilderness Park is a million-acre cattle station turned outback adventure playground in WA's Kimberley region. Famous for thermal springs, gorge walks, and four-tier accommodation from camping to luxury.
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.
Peel
Mandurah
Canals, blue swimmer crabs and wild dolphins an hour south of Perth.
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.
South West
South West WA
Tall-timber forests, surf coast and the vineyards of Margaret River in WA's green corner.
Kimberley
The Kimberley
Gorges, waterfalls and the Gibb River Road across Australia's last great wilderness.
North West
The Pilbara
Ancient gorges, red earth and the iron-ore coast of WA's north-west.
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
Fremantle, or Freo, is Perth's historic port at the Swan River mouth, home to a UNESCO-listed convict prison, Victorian-era markets and a laid-back café culture the CBD never had.
Coral Coast
Pinnacles Desert
Thousands of limestone pillars rise from yellow sand at Nambung National Park, a two-hour drive north of Perth and one of WA's most photographed landscapes.