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Broome
Broome is an idyllic destination located in Western Australia’s tropical north. Established in the late 1800’s Broome was a lively pearling port and today it boasts a multicultural population made up of many nationalities.
Broome is still famous as a pearling town and you can visit exclusive and exquisite pearl shops as you walk around the town. In its heyday, over 400 luggers worked the shores of Roebuck Bay and today the remnants of Broome’s historical past are everywhere.
Take time to explore and soak up the special feeling. View pristine beaches and bays fringed with glistening white sands, craggy red cliffs and azure waters of the Indian Ocean. Take a walk through the town viewing the unusual style of colonial/asian architecture evident through Broome’s bustling Chinatown.
Cable Beach is probably Australia’s best known tropical beach. Located just out of town it is renowned for it’s endless stretch of white sand and tidal waters that can rise and fall up to 10 metres a day. Be sure to stay for the incredible sunsets over Cable Beach that turn the Indian Ocean into a majestic kaleidoscope of colour. The climate is something to boast about, warm sunny days, romantic balmy nights making it easy to slip into “Broome Time”. Just some of the wonders of this coastal delight!
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Chinatown Courthouse Markets
Japanese Cemetary
“Staircase to the Moon”
Willie Creek Pearl Farm
Gantheaume Point
Linneys Pearls
Anastasia’s Pool
Paspaley Pearls
Cable Beach
Staircase to the Moon
This natural phenomenon is caused by the rising of a full moon reflecting off the exposed mudflats in Roebuck Bay at extremely low tide, to create a beautiful optical illusion of a staircase reaching to the moon.
Occurs March through to October 2008.
March 23 @ 1845
March 24 @ 1922
March 25 @ 2001
April 21 @ 1759
April 22 @ 1840
April 23 @ 1925
May 21 @ 1809
May 22 @ 1900
May 23 @ 1953
June 20 @ 1843
June 21 @ 1937
June 22 @ 2030
July 19 @ 1826
July 20 @ 1919
July 21 @ 2011
August 18 @ 1859
August 19 @ 1952
August 20 @ 2047
September 16 @ 1839
September 17 @ 1936
September 18 @ 2037
October 15 @ 1823
October 16 @ 1927
October 17 2 2034
Kununurra
Kununurra is the eastern gateway to the Kimberley, the home of outback adventure. Kununurra was gazetted in the early 1960’s as a service town for the Ord River Irrigation Scheme. It is now progressing rapidly through agriculture, tourism and mining.
The climate in Kununurra and the East Kimberley can be split into two seasons, ‘the wet’ and ‘the dry’. The dry season extends from around April to October with lovely clear days, cooler nights, brilliant blue skies and magnificent sunsets. The remaining months from November to March are dominated by monsoonal weather. Conditions are hot and humid with frequent thunderstorms causing heavy rainfall, an extremely exciting time of year.
Kununurra is an ideal base for an adventure holiday using one of the many 4WD, cruise or flight operators based in the area. Visitors can access most areas of the Kimberley from Kununurra in a variety of ways.
Take a relaxing cruise or canoe down the Ord River or on Lake Argyle. Try your luck fishing for barramundi. Visit the rugged Bungle Bungles or fly over the magnificent coastline. Swim in the many fresh water holes under cascading waterfalls or view Aboriginal rock paintings.
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Ord River
Lake Argyle
Argyle Diamond Mine
Bungle Bungle Range
Purnululu National Park
El Questro
Wilderness Park
Wyndham and the Cambridge Gulf
Wyndham Crocodile Park
Gibb River Road
Fishing
Darwin
Darwin has all the sophistication of an international city with restaurants, hotels, museums, art galleries and a nightlife that thumps into the morning.
Darwin’s boundaries are the glittering azure of the Timor Sea and luxuriant greens of rainforest and wetlands. The weather is tropical – always warm, sometimes humid and with lots of sunshine.
Using Darwin as the starting point you can find your way to art galleries 60 000 years old, thermal springs, roaring waterfalls and fizzing plunge pools. An Aboriginal cultural presence has left and indelible impression with spectacular rock galleries that are national treasures.
Darwin is a multicultural society and the array of award winning cuisine in Darwin is endless. The sheer variety, quality and range of reataurants in the city area is staggering for a city of its size. The choice is yours – whether you prefer fine dining in the city or overlooking Cullen Bay, or perhaps sampling local seafood in the Wharf precinct.
The Top End has become a melting pot of South East Asian and eauropean cultures – clearly evident when visiting the street markets that operate throughout the year in Darwin. Each market has its own special charm – from the suburban Sunday Markets at Nightcliff and Rapid Creek, to the hugely popular Mindil Beach Sunset Markets.
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Mindil Beach Sunset Markets
Aquascene – fish feeding
Australian Pearl Exhibition
Darwin Wharf Precinct
Cullen Bay Marina
Museum and Art Gallery of the NT
East Point Reserve & Lake Alexander
Darwin Casino
Indopacific Marine
Fannie Bay Gaol
WWII Tunnels & Museum
Exmouth & Coral Bay
Ningaloo Reef is home to approximately 250 species of coral and 520 species of fish. Coral outcrops can be found as close as 20 metres to shore, dolphins, dugongs, manta rays, huge cod and sharks are all in abundance. Long white sandy beaches are a feature of the Ningaloo coast, offering safe swimming and adventure.
Whale Sharks, the world’s largest fish, visit the Ningaloo Reef from March to June, providing snorkellers with the unique opportunity to swim with these amazing creatures.
The town of Exmouth is blessed with the stark contrast of the rugged ranges of Cape Range National Park and marine life of Ningaloo Marine Park. Coral Bay is the southern gateway to the Ningaloo Marine Park and is home to an extensive range of marine life including humpback whales, dugongs, manta rays, turtles and dolphins. The reef is only metres from the shore at Coral Bay enabling even the inexperienced to swim amongst tropical reef fish.
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Ningaloo Marine Park
Cape Range National Park
Coral Spawning
Mauritius Beach
Milyering Visitors Centre
Potshot Monument
Vlamingh Head Lighthouse
Wreck of SS Mildura
Yardi Creek Gorge
Shothole Canyon
Monkey Mia & Shark Bay
Monkey Mia is world renowned for its natural beauty, friendly wild dolphins and variety of marine life in Western Australia’s popular Coral Coast.
With crystal blue water, stark red rock and pristine white beaches, Monkey Mia is promoted as the only place in Australia where the dolphins choose to swim with you, freely. The dolphins of Monkey Mia are one of the many remarkable features in the area.
From camel treks along the beach to catamaran trips to get closer to exotic marine life, Monkey Mia is a complete tourism experience. Neighbouring Shark Bay also boasts impressive marine life. One of the larges and most secure populations of dugongs in the world can be found in the shallow marine environment of Shark Bay. You cannot help but be engaged by these graceful, if not a little bizarre looking creatures.
The marine life certainly doesn’t stop at dugongs and dolphins. Shark Bay is a turtle nesting location and is also home to rays, sea snakes, sharks, whales and a stunning assortment of fish life.
So significant is the region’s natural beauty that it earned a prestigious World Heritage listing in 1991.
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Monkey Mia Bottlenose Dolphins
Shell Beach
Stromatolites of Hamelin Pool
Francois Peron National Park
Dirk Hartog Island
Shark Bay
World Heritage Centre
Fishing
Eagle Bluff
Steep Point
Kalbarri
The Kalbarri National Park is one of the most exciting and spectacular in Western Australia. Explore the depths and heights of the river gorge and sea cliffs. Admire the floral beauty of the vast, rolling sand plains. Short walks provide moderately easy access to look-outs along the river gorge at The Loop, Z-Bend, Hawks Head and Ross Graham gorges.
Water sports on the lower reaches of the Murchison River are many and varied. Dolphins, whale sharks and whales frequent the coastal fringe and fishing is excellent throughout the year.
Kalbarri is blessed with a unique marine environment – clean safe beaches side by side with fantastic surfing breaks, towering sandstone cliffs, bordering coastal reef fringes and, thanks to a warm off-shore current, both tropical and sub-tropical species of marine life in abundance.
The Australian Parrot Breeding Centre, Rainbow Jungle, is the number one attraction in the Kalbarri area. You will find the largest Parrot walk-in free-flight in Australia and an active breeding program of endangered species.
The seasonal migrations of Humpback Whales, bring them close to the Kalbarri shoreline in Winter & Spring.
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Kalbarri National Park
Rainbow Jungle
Whale Watching
Fishing
Adventure Sports
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