From your first river ramble in Perth to your final blazing Broome sunset, travelling up Western Australia’s coast offers day after day of magic. This epic Perth to Darwin tour lets you take in World Heritage-listed sites (Ningaloo) as well as contenders for the honour – the gorges and waterfalls of Karijini and limestone spires of the Pinnacles among them. Not to mention Monkey Mia’s resident dolphins…
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Centrally located in Perth, within a 10-minute walk of Queens Gardens and Perth Mint. This hotel has 189 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and minibars. Wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary, while 42-inch LCD televisions with satellite programming provide entertainment. Private bathrooms have complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include phones, as well as safes and desks. The recreational amenities include an outdoor pool and a fitness center. Enjoy local cuisine at Gusti Restaurant and Bar, a restaurant where you can enjoy drinks at the bar/lounge and dine alfresco.
Mantra Geraldton hotel is located right on the Batavia Coast Marina, Champion Bay. The apartments are close to the region’s best attractions like the Western Australian Museum, Geraldton CBD and the HMAS Sydney Memorial. There are One, Two and Three Bedroom Apartments situated within the East Wing offer comfortable, self-contained accommodation with full kitchen and laundry facilities, king beds, spa ensuites and private balconies. The Northshore Complex offers City View Superior Two Bedroom and Harbour View Superior Two Bedroom Apartments with the latter featuring breathtaking views over the water. Skeetas waterfront restaurant is located on the ground floor of the Northshore Complex and is perfect for a meal close by. You’ll be close to shops and restaurants and great services and facilities include complimentary parking, express checkout, a solar heated pool, spa and barbeque area.
Monkey Mia Dolphin Resort is situated midway up the West Australian coastline within the Shark Bay World Heritage Area, home to one of the world’s best-known dolphin encounters. It offers a unique experience in unspoiled surrounds. With beachfront accommodation situated on the pristine shores of Shark Bay, you won’t have to go far to feel the sand between your toes. The resort has a comprehensive range of facilities and amenities to ensure you have a relaxing and enjoyable stay. The on-site general store and gift shop offers a great range of groceries and souvenirs and also has bait and fishing gear available. Enjoy a meal at the beachfront Boughshed Restaurant or try something a little more casual at the Monkey Bar.
Ideally located in the centre of Carnarvon, the motel is located just minutes from the tranquil waters of the Facine. The Facine is often visited by turtles, dolphins and the occasional dugong. The property offers spacious, well-appointed motel rooms, a swimming pool and complimentary guest laundry. The comfortable, spacious, air-conditioned and non-smoking guest rooms have a queen-sized bed, and free Foxtel channels. Room service is available for breakfast and dinner daily. After a day exploring the local sights of Carnarvon and surrounding areas, you can relax by the swimming pool or enjoy gourmet cuisine at the on-site restaurant, designed around local Gascoyne region produce – finest fresh seafood, tropical fruits and vegetables.
Mantarays Ningaloo, is the only resort on Sunrise Beach, which is the gateway to the world heritage listed Ningaloo Reef and the Cape Range National Park. You can enjoy a relaxing stay while taking part in the many activities the region has to offer. The property has 68 rooms, servicing the growing popularity of the nature based tourist destination. The deluxe development includes a range of hotel rooms and one and two bedroom self contained apartments and bungalows. The complex includes Gold Plate Award winning Mantaray’s restaurant, bar, lounge, resort-style swimming pool and gym with stunning beaches right outside your door.
Karijini Eco Retreat is one of Australia’s leading eco-tourism attractions. Situated 1,500km north of Perth in WA’s second largest national park, the retreat offers safari-style eco tents, cabins and campsites nestled amongst native bushland at the edge of Joffre Gorge, along with an outback restaurant and bar, and access to the park’s walks and guided adventure tours. Stay under the stars in the campground, or in comfortable glamping accommodation at the first and only facility to offer a glamping experience in the Karijini National Park. Explore a wonderland of ancient natural landscapes formed more than two billion years ago – deep gorges, red cliffs, towering waterfalls and emerald green waterholes, while experiencing a taste of genuine mateship and friendly hospitality.
The Esplanade Hotel in Port Hedland offers a range of family friendly and premium dining choices, the sophistication of a lounge bar or the relaxed atmosphere and ambience of a terraced deck amongst an outdoor setting perfect to take in the Pilbara’s balmy evenings. First constructed in 1904, The Esplanade Hotel has distinctive exposed stonework and elegant iron work. The hotel has maintained its rich heritage as it has been developed through the years. It is often described as the most impressive and handsome building in Port Hedland.
This Resort is styled to reflect the Asian and colonial influences of Broome, and the diverse choice of accommodation is complemented by acres of lush tropical gardens. You can immerse yourself in the full Resort experience with the adults-only Ocean Pool, Chahoya Spa by L’Occitane, Chahoya Salon, gym and the choice of four restaurants. Have hours of fun at the Family Pool, mini golf and tennis courts. Relax and reconnect at the world-famous Cable Beach. Home of award-winning Cable Beach Club Resort & Spa, Indian Ocean sunsets, gently swaying palm trees, and Kimberly charm, it’s truly a destination like no other. With two pools, delicious cuisine, leisure facilities, and Chahoya Spa by L’Occitane, Cable Beach Club offers a memorable experience.
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Perth is an urban oasis among the vast nature of Western Australia where you can embrace the best of both worlds. The soft-sand beaches and scenic parks meet a thriving metropolis of small bars, creative restaurants and curated street art. Art galleries, al fresco breweries, relaxed neighbourhood and epic events all live in perfect harmony. There are also nearby wineries and even friendly quokkas in the capital of Western Australia.
Geraldton is a coastal city in the Mid West region of Western Australia, this seaside city is emerging as a trendy beach escape. Base yourself in the city centre (where you’ll find cafés, street art and galleries) and explore the area’s naturally blessed surrounds, which includes beautiful beaches, Aboriginal driving trails and even a pink lake. Geraldton is also the ideal location to access the Coral Coast’s carpets of wildflowers, which are in full bloom in late winter and early spring.
At Monkey Mia (850 kilometres or 530 miles north of Perth), wild dolphins have been dropping by for generations, garnering international fame. But Monkey Mia and the wider Shark Bay region have more than friendly mammals to offer. World Heritage-listed for its natural assets, this is a wild, arid landscape of massive skies and stiff ocean breezes. Striking ochre sand dunes dive into turquoise waters, emus splash in the shallows and dugongs raise babies in swaying seagrass. The world’s oldest living culture thrives, as do stromatolites, some of the world’s oldest living lifeforms. There’s European history here too, being the site of Australia’s first European landing in 1616, and even today, modern explorers will find much to discover about Monkey Mia and Shark Bay.
Carnarvon is a coastal town situated approximately 900 kilometres north of Perth, in Western Australia. It lies at the mouth of the Gascoyne River on the Indian Ocean. The popular Shark Bay world heritage area lies to the south of the town and the Ningaloo Reef and the popular tourist town of Exmouth lie to the north. It is also a subtropical oasis and referred to as the ‘food bowl’ of Western Australia. The town produces 80% of Western Australia’s total fruit and vegetable crops, and much of the State’s seafood with a thriving prawn, scallop, crab and fishing industry, so you can enjoy an abundance of fresh food between adventures.
With pristine white-sand beaches and turquoise waters, Coral Bay is an idyllic introduction to the breathtaking beauty of the World Heritage-listed Ningaloo Reef. It’s one of the few places on earth where you can come face-to-face with fascinating marine creatures like whale sharks. Or set off on a fishing charter. Just steps from the world’s largest fringing reef, Coral Bay is a coastal paradise for nature lovers, packed with adventure and relaxed beach holiday vibes. Depending on the season, you’ll be accompanied by whale sharks (March to June) and humpback whales (June to November) as these gentle giants of the ocean glide over the Ningaloo Reef during their seasonal migration. Year-round, spot manta rays, dugongs and turtles. One of Western Australia’s premier fishing destinations offers the chance to catch bream, tuna, marlin, mahi-mahi and sailfish.
Exmouth is a small resort town on Western Australia’s North West Cape. It’s a gateway to nearby Ningaloo Marine Park with its coral reefs, colourful fish and migratory whale sharks. Nearly surrounding Exmouth, Cape Range National Park has kangaroos, sheer cliffs and red, rocky gorges. On the Cape’s northwest coast, Jurabi Coastal Reserve’s tidal rock pools, beaches and seasonal nesting grounds for marine turtles. There are an abundance of aquatic encounters throughout the year with humpback whales visiting between August and October each year, between March and August there are whale sharks and year round a diverse range of marine life.
Gorges of ancient rock and cool swimming holes and showering waterfalls make Karijini National Park one of Australia’s most dramatic and spectacular destinations. Located 1,400 kilometres (870 miles) north of Perth, a semi-arid plateau suddenly drops away into cavernous gorges, 100 metres (328 feet) deep. From the lookouts, cliff walls glow a striking red in the late afternoon, contrasting with the trunks of white-barked gumtrees. Descending to explore the gorges from inside is to enter a secret world of fern-lined swimming holes, towering waterfalls, and vertical rock canyons that draw you in. Photos cannot do justice to Karijini National Park – this breathtaking landscape has to be seen to be believed.
A multicultural melting pot, Broome is a tropical delight and the gateway to the Kimberley, one of the world’s great wildernesses. Beginning life as a pearling town in the 1880s, Broome was a wild frontier, attracting workers from Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Japan and Europe. Along with strong Indigenous cultures, these influences are all here today, giving Broome a vibe unlike anywhere else. Red dirt sits beside aqua ocean, pearl boutiques rub shoulders with laid-back breweries, and activities range from world-class diving to unhurried camel-rides.
Exploring one of the most beautiful inner city parks in Australia, Kings Park Perth is home to the spectacular Western Australian Botanic Garden. With over 3,000 species of the State’s unique flora, the stunning collection of the Wildflowers of Western Australia. It is one of the world’s largest and most beautiful inner city parks. It is rich in Aboriginal and European history, contemporary culture and offers innovative design, displays and services. Kings Park has an international reputation for scientific research, leading horticulture, conservation and public education.
Set high on the hill overlooking Geraldton, here you can reflect at the evocative HMAS Sydney Memorial and you can take in the astonishing views over the seaside township of Geraldton. Steeped in symbolism, the Memorial pays homage to the ship’s 645 men who lost their lives off of Western Australia’s coastline during the battle with German Ship HSK Kormoran.
The Carnarvon Space and Technology Museum celebrates the role Carnarvon played in the manned space program and in the Australian satellite communications industry.
In 1966, the Casshorn antenna, locally known as the ‘Sugar Scoop’, was used for the first television broadcast from Australia to the BBC in London. The program was called “Down Under Comes Up Live”.
On 21 July 1969, the day of the Apollo 11 moon landing, the Casshorn antenna played an important part. The antenna, which stands beside the OTC Dish, relayed the video of Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the moon. It transmitted the pictures from NASA’s Honey Suckle Creek Tracking Station to Perth’s TV audience via Moree earth station. This was the first live telecast into Western Australia. And later in 1969, the larger 29.6 metre wide steerable antenna was built to facilitate better communication between the NASA Tracking Station and the USA.
The Carnarvon Tracking Station (no longer standing) was 10 kilometres south from Carnarvon. The station was built to support NASA’s Gemini, Apollo and Skylab programs. Commissioned in 1964, it operated for 11 years. It was the last station to communicate with the space capsules leaving the earth’s orbit. And it was the last to have contact before its splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.
At the height of the operation it had a staff of 220 people. The friendly local volunteers at the Carnarvon Space and Technology Museum will share stories of how this site was instrumental in the space race. You might even choose to try on a space suit and climb aboard a spacecraft simulator.
On a shallow draft glass bottom boat, cruise over World Heritage listed Ningaloo Reef at famous Coral Bay. Your local guide will show you extraordinary coral formations found in the lagoon gardens of the inner reef.
On this coral cruise you’ll see wonderful fish and bright unspoiled corals without having to get in the water. It’s a fantastic experience!
At Hamelin Pool you can see the world’s best known colony of Stromatolites. Dating back to the beginning of life on earth, while they may not appear alive, these living structures have helped scientists unravel the history of life on earth!
Hamelin Pool is home to the most diverse and abundant examples of stromatolites in the world. Also referred to as ‘living fossils’, stromatolites are living representatives of life over 3500 million years ago when there was no other complex life on Earth. A 200m boardwalk at Hamelin Pool provides excellent views of the stromatolites, microbialites and microbial mats.
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