The bucket-list things to do — and who runs each one.
Here’s the bucket list for your day ashore: the most extraordinary thing to do at each stop, who runs it, and how to book it direct — so you can weigh it against your ship’s excursion and pick what suits you.
In port at Exmouth, the bucket-list move is Swim with Whale Sharks: Ningaloo Reef Private Charter. Below: 4 bucket-list things to do on a Exmouth port day — worth weighing against whatever your ship offers.
Slip into the warm, crystalline waters of Ningaloo Reef and glide alongside the world's largest fish — the gentle, magnificent whale shark. A spotter aircraft locates the animals; you simply drop in and swim. Utterly bucket-list.
Book itPerth: 8-Day Exmouth Tour with Ningaloo Reef Comfort Tour$3,005 per person
Board a premium sailing catamaran for an exclusive guided snorkel through Ningaloo Reef's UNESCO-listed coral gardens — manta rays, sea turtles, and reef sharks beneath glass-clear water. The finest reef experience in Australia outside the Barrier Reef.
Book itPerth: 8-Day Exmouth Tour with Ningaloo Reef Comfort Tour$3,005 per person
A private 4WD guide whisks you through the rugged red gorges of Cape Range National Park to legendary Turquoise Bay — consistently ranked among Australia's most beautiful beaches. Snorkel the drift, walk the gorges, see rock wallabies.
We have not yet verified a bookable operator and price for
this one, so we are not quoting either.
Between August and October, Ningaloo hosts migrating humpback whales and permits the world's rarest tourism activity: in-water encounters with these 40-tonne giants. A marine biologist guides you into the blue alongside mothers and calves.
We have not yet verified a bookable operator and price for
this one, so we are not quoting either.
Paddle a sit-on-top sea kayak across the mirror-flat Ningaloo lagoon, trailing your fingers above coral gardens and dropping anchor — quite literally — to snorkel with turtles and reef fish in waters of impossible blue.
Book itExmouth: Lagoon Explorer - Full day kayak & Snorkel tour$217 per person
Drift by flat-bottomed boat through the stunning, vertically walled Yardie Creek gorge — the only permanent freshwater creek in Cape Range — then walk its ochre rim in search of the critically rare black-footed rock wallaby.
Book itExmouth: Yardie Creek Boat Tour$58 per person
Your day in ExmouthNothing picked yet — tick what you fancy
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Now plan the rest of it
You know what to do on the day. Here is the trip it belongs to —
each one opens as a whole plan, not a list: where to fly in, every port, what it runs.