Activities in Central West Coast
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Kalbarri Adventure Tours
Combine canoeing, bushwalking and swimming around the park's Z-Bend/Loop area.
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Monkey Mia
World-famous for the wild dolphins that turn up in the shallow water for feeding each day, the beach resort of Monkey Mia, 26km northeast of Denham, now tops many travellers’ list of things to do. The morning feeding session (around 7.45am) can get packed, but often the dolphins return for a second feeding later in the morning. Aside from dolphins, the resort offers plenty of other diversions, including Aboriginal heritage walks, sailing, camel trips, diving and stargazing.
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Yamatji Cultural Trails
Yamatji Cultural Trails will open your eyes to the customs, traditional practices, history and contemporary issues affecting the Mid West indigenous Yamatji people through tours to significant sites around Geraldton. You get to sleep under the stars and hear Dreamtime stories on the 2½-day tour.
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Wula Guda Nyinda Aboriginal Cultural Tours
Local Aboriginal guide Darren 'Capes' Capewell leads excellent bushwalks where he shows 'how to let the bush talk to you'. You'll learn some local Malgana language, and identify bush tucker and native medicine. The evening 'Didgeridoo Dreaming' walks are magical. There's also a 'Saltwater Dreaming' kayak tour (three hours; adult/child $90/50).
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Kalbarri Boat Hire
On the foreshore, this place hires out various aquatic transports. It also runs four-hour breakfast and lunch canoe trips down the Murchison (adult/child $65/45).
Kalbarri has a great network of cycle paths along the foreshore, and you can ride out to Blue Holes for snorkelling, Jakes Point with its excellent surf and fishing and Red Bluff Beach (5.5km). Any of the lookouts along the coast are perfect for watching the sunset.
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Outback Coast Safaris
Full-day tours to the Kennedy Range or three-day camping trips to Mt Augustus. Also available for coastal charters.
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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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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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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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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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Kalbarri Scenic Flights
Six different scenic flights, including 20-minute coastal cliff tours, 45-minute Murchison River gorges flyovers and trips to the Abrolhos Islands.
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Kalbarri Air Charter
Twenty-minute scenic flights over the coastal cliffs, and longer flights over gorges, the Zuytdorp Cliffs and the Abrolhos Islands.
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Blue Lagoon Pearl Farm
Take an eight-minute boat ride from Monkey Mia jetty across to the floating pearl farm to learn how the beautiful black pearls are cultured.
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Jurien Charters
You can snorkel with sea lions and watch humpback whales migrate south (September to December) with Jurien Charters.
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Kalbarri Scenic Tours
Runs daily national park, heritage and Hutt River Province coach tours. The visitors centre has full details and takes bookings.
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Kalbarri Wilderness Cruises
Popular two-hour river cruises explore nature along the Murchison.
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steam train
You can ride a restored steam train along One Mile Jetty, where locals fish for mulloway.
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Kalbarri Safari Tours
Operates 'ocean and outback' quad bike, canoe and 4WD safaris. The visitors centre has full details and takes bookings.
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Power Dive
Offers snorkelling and diving safaris in Francois Peron National Park. Transport from Denham can also be arranged.
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Majestic Tours
Has various full-day 4WD tours, including François Péron National Park and Shell Beach.
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Pelican Feeding
Kalbarri's most popular attraction is on the Grey St waterfront near the boat hire.
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Stockman Safaris
Runs a variety of tours that take in the town and local and regional sites.
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Kalbarri Abseil
Get vertical amid the gorges of Kalbarri National Park. Suitable for beginners.
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