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Western Australia, Australia

In Western Australia people tend to develop a generous understanding of personal space. This is vast frontier country, and great orange and ochre swathes of it are empty up to the smooth white beaches and the Indian Ocean, so the few (by square kilometre) inhabitants can afford to keep their distance, which also helps with the heat. Most of Western Australia's population lives in young, golden, leisure-oriented, Perth, while the rest of the state (approximately a third of Australia) is deserts pricked by rock formations, farming scrub, eucalypt forests and green granite mountain ranges known for deep gashed gorges. Rich from mining but still unpolished, towns are isolated and largely unvisited bar sparks of life provided by the dolphins of Monkey Mia, whale sharks of the Ningaloo Reef and Broome with it's history exotically tied to pearl diving.

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The best things to do in Western Australia

The top 5 experiences in Western Australia. There are 28 more experiences in Western Australia. See all »

Whale Sharks of Ningaloo Reef
Swim in clear, warm waters with the majestic, gentle giant, the Whale Shark. The Ningaloo Reef is one of the few places in the…
Windsurfing Margaret River
A world class wave, not for the first timer. Sharp reef and assertive locals. Give respect and you’ll get respect is the motto …
Margaret River's Surf
Three and half hour drive south of Perth. Margaret River is a left hander for big wave surfers only with the point/reef break …
Dolphins at Monkey Mia
Bottlenose dolphin schools have been visiting the beaches of Shark Bay for over 40 years and have only failed to arrive on four…
Night skies over the Kimberley
The Kimberley region of Western Australia covers an area of around 421,000 square kilometres, with a total population of only 2…