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 Margaret River, the bucket-list move is Premium Small-Group Margaret River Wine Immersion Tour. Below: 2 bucket-list things to do on a Margaret River port day — worth weighing against whatever your ship offers.
Ride in a luxury vehicle through Margaret River's legendary wine country, tasting benchmark Cabernets and Chardonnays at boutique estates rarely accessible to larger groups. An expert local guide unlocks cellar doors that define Australian fine wine.
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Descend into two of Margaret River's most spectacular limestone caves — Lake Cave with its ethereal underground lake, and Jewel Cave with its cathedral-scale formations. A fully guided experience reveals 350 million years of geological wonder.
Book itAugusta: Jewel Cave Fully-Guided Tour$19 per person
Walk the Southern Hemisphere's longest timber jetty, then descend into an underwater observatory to encounter a technicolour artificial reef — all without getting wet. Or don a mask and snorkel the Busselton Jetty Underwater Sculpture Trail for a truly unforgettable encounter.
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Stand at the very tip of the Australian continent where the Indian and Southern Oceans collide, then climb the tallest lighthouse on mainland Australia for panoramic views that stretch to the edge of the world. A genuinely once-in-a-lifetime geographic moment.
Book itMargaret River, Caves, Wine and Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse Tour from Perth$197 per person
Follow a curated trail of the region's finest artisan food producers — hand-crafting single-origin chocolates, farmhouse cheeses, berry wines, and small-batch spirits. This is the edible soul of Margaret River, away from the cellar-door crowds.
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Explore two of WA's most breathtaking coastal landscapes — Hamelin Bay, where wild stingrays glide through gin-clear shallows at your feet, and Canal Rocks, a wild granite formation sculpted by the Indian Ocean into arched channels and natural blowholes.
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Your day in Margaret RiverNothing 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.