Activities in Western Australia
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Whiteman Park
If bushwalks or cycle trails are more your style, head for the 10,000 acres of Whiteman Park with its many outdoor attractions. It also has fantastic child-friendly activities, especially during holidays.
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Batavia Coast Dive Academy
Offers open-water courses (full PADI $600) and a range of diving trips, including three-day chartered trips to the Abrolhos ($900 per person).
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Exmouth Minigolf
Small-group sailing adventures with a focus on learning to sail. There are two-hour twilight cruises ($150 per person), all-day cruises ($400) and live-aboard sailing trips lasting two days ($790) or five days ($1390).
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Coral Bay Adventures
This excellent company offers half- and full-day trips where you can wildlife watch ($85/$190), swim with whale sharks ($390) or manta rays ($165), whale watch ($110) or view coral from a glass-bottom boat (one/two hours $33/46). It also provides free snorkel hire for the length of your stay.
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Shark Bay Scenic Flights
Various scenic flights including 15-minute Monkey Mia flyovers ($55), 40-minute trips over Steep Point and the Zuytdorp Cliffs ($150) and one-way charters to/from the Overlander roadhouse ($120).
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About Bike Hire
Also hires kayaks (per hour/day $16/65).
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Capricorn Sea Kayaking
Offers coastal and camping tours by sea kayak from April to October, including one-, two- and five-day tours, with stops for snorkelling and lunch. Also offers multiday kayaking trips in Shark Bay.
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Cape Leveque and Aboriginal Community 4WD Tour with Optional Scenic Flight from Broome
by Viator
Take in the spectacular Dampier Peninsula from the air! Combine a scenic flight with an adventurous 4WD trip to Cape Leveque. Stop at a remote Aboriginal…Not LP reviewed
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Cycle Centre
Need some wheels? Try the Cycle Centre. Bicycle routes follow the Swan River all the way to Fremantle and along the coast. Download city cycling maps from www.dpi.wa.gov.au.
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Fun-Time Two-Up
The gambling game two-up, beloved in the bush, is usually played somewhere in town each week; check at the visitors centre or see if Fun-Time Two-Up is happening.
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Malibu Diving
Snorkelling and diving equipment, surfboards and bodyboards can be hired from Malibu Diving, which also runs daily snorkelling trips and open-water, four-day scuba diving courses.
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Swan Valley Tour from Perth: Wine, Beer and Chocolate Tastings
8 hours or 5.5 hours (approx.) (Departs Perth, Australia)
by Viator
Explore the Swan Valley on a full-day or half-day trip from Perth and indulge your love of fine wine and food. Visit several wineries and enjoy tastings of…Not LP reviewed
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Windjana Gorge and Tunnel Creek Full-Day 4WD Adventure from Broome
by Viator
Get a taste of the remote Kimberley region on this 4WD adventure from Broome.See the Prison Boab Tree, once used to house convicts. Travel along the famous Gibb…Not LP reviewed
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Turquoise Coast Enviro Tours
At this excellent Cervantes outfit, ex-ranger Mike Newton runs three-hour morning (8am) and evening (2½ hours before sunset) Pinnacles trips, as well as a full-day Kwongan tour, including Lesueur National Park and the coast up to Leeman.
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Denmark Dinghy Hire
Denmark Dinghy Hire can set you up with boats for messing about on the river, and can take Bibbulmun Track walkers by boat across the inlet ($40 per transfer).
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Leeuwin Estate
This is a brilliant estate, with excellent wines (taste the Art Series Chardonnay), a stylish cellar door, a highly regarded restaurant and an annual sell-out concert series.
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Ningaloo Dreaming
This ecocertified company offers whale-shark cruises, wildlife spotting, trips to Muiron Islands, scuba-diving courses and dives off biologically rich Exmouth Navy Pier.
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Small-Group Tour: Swan Valley Food and Wine Trail
5 hours (Departs Perth, Australia)
by Viator
Forget speed dating and start speed grazing -- the newest way to enjoy all the best artisan produce of the Swan Valley! On this half-day tour from Perth, take…Not LP reviewed
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Whale-Watching Cruise and Hillarys Boat Harbour Day Trip from Perth
4 hours or 7 hours (depending on the option selected) (Departs Perth, Australia)
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Head north from Perth to Hillarys Boat Harbour for a whale-watching cruise off the Sunset Coast. Spot dolphins and whales, and then spend the afternoon one of…Not LP reviewed
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Ningaloo Ecology Cruises
One-hour glass-bottom-boat trips (April to October), and longer 2½-hour trips (all year) including snorkelling. Tours leave from Tantabiddi; there's a free transfer from town.
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Ningaloo Reef Dive
This PADI- and eco-certified dive crew offers snorkelling with whale sharks ($365, from late March to June), reef dives ($160) and a range of dive courses (from $380).
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Shark Bay Sea Kayaking
This outfit runs five-hour kayak tours, taking in the rugged coastal scenery of Eagle Bluff, Wilson Island and Ticklebelly Flats. Based out of Bay Lodge.
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Ningaloo Kayak Adventures
On the main beach. Offers two- and three-hour kayak tours with stops for snorkelling. You can also hire a glass-bottom canoe ($25 per hour) and wetsuit and snorkelling gear ($15 per day).
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Hammond Park
Hammond Park, in the west of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, is a good spot for kids, with playgrounds, animals and a miniature Bavarian castle.
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Fisherman’s Wharf
At Fisherman’s Wharf you can follow the lobsters’ journey from fishing boat to dinner plate and buy fresh seafood from the market.
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