Tours to get you there

1 Day Blue Mountains Tour
Visit the stunning natural beauty of the Blue Mountains
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5 Day Maldives Package
The best way to finish your time in Sri Lanka! Relax and explore one of the most beautiful countries in the world with everything taken care of.
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White Shark Day Tour
Experience Shark Cage Diving like nowhere else in the world!
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3 Day Fraser Island 4WD Tag-Along Camping Tour
A fun Fraser Island tag-a-long self drive adventure.
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3 Day Cicada Dreaming Alice Springs To Darwin Tour
There is a lot to see between Alice Springs and Darwin on this 3 day outback adventure.
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5 Day Perth To Exmouth Tour
What a West Coast 5 day adventure tour from Perth to Exmouth highlights are the Pinnacles, Kalbarri National Park, Monkey Mia, Coral Bay and Exmouth.
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10 Day Darwin To Alice Springs Tour Package
10 day adventure to Kakadu and Litchfield National Parks, Uluru and Kings Canyon.
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9 Day Perth To Adelaide Tour
Encounter the best of Australian wildlife on this expansive trip across the Nullabor. This country’s made for road trips, and crossing South Australia’s vast Nullarbor Plain is just about as iconic as they come.
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3 Day Great Ocean Road And Grampians Melbourne To Adelaide Tour
Spend three remarkable days exploring the Great Ocean Road and Grampians National Park. Leaving from Melbourne and arriving at Adelaide,
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Every year from late March to July, whale sharks gather off the coast of Western Australia to feed near Ningaloo Reef. Ningaloo Reef is located north of Perth between the towns of Coral Bay and Exmouth.
The annual whale shark migration coincides with the coral bloom on Ningaloo Reef which feeds plankton which in turn is filtered from the sea water by these harmless sharks. The reef's proximity to the coastline, its 260km length and the deep water of the nearby continental shelf mixed with favourable ocean currents creates the right ingredients for a diverse array of ocean wildlife.
You'll need to take a specialist whale shark day tour out into the ocean to find and see whale sharks feeding near the ocean surface. A plane usually does a reconaissance trip to locate the distinctive shape of the sharks cruising. The boats then gather and take turns dropping excited tourists into the water ahead of the shark. The shark swims in a predictable pattern so you have to just look down into the water and wait for the submarine-like bulk of the shark to swim past you. It's a powerful experience as you recognise your exposed and vulnerable position bobbing in the ocean with something so immense and intimidating being so close.
Humpback whales, manta rays, dugongs and sea turtles can all be found at various times of the year off this stretch of coastline. For those not wanting to do a day snorkelling after whale sharks, you can snorkel off the beach at Turquoise Bay near Exmouth to see reef sharks, turtles and soft corals in the tidal pools inside the reef.
You might think that if you were to take a tour to Exmouth, or through to Broome, you would not have time to do a whale shark trip because they take up most of the day. The itineraries for the tours that aren't ending in Exmouth include a full day free for optional activities in Exmouth.
Pre-book your Whale Shark swim with us to ensure your spot on the boat, as they only take 20 per day: Ningaloo Reef Whale Shark Swim
Take these tours that travel to Exmouth where you can swim with a whale shark:
5 DAY PERTH TO EXMOUTH TOUR
7 DAY PERTH TO EXMOUTH RETURN TOUR
9 DAY PERTH TO BROOME TOUR
14 DAY PERTH TO BROOME RETURN TOUR
19 DAY PERTH TO DARWIN TOUR
To read more about our trip from Perth to Exmouth click here.
For further travel in Western Australia read our article on when to travel The Kimberley.