Western Australia (WA) is Australia's largest State, about
8 times the size of Germany, or 10 times the size of Texas.
It is isolated from Australia's eastern population (Perth
to Sydney is approximately 4000 kilometres). Many of its vast
natural treasures are yet to be 'discovered' by tourists.
However, despite the tyranny of distance, more people
are making their way to the far side of the continent and
going home gushing about the places they've seen and the
things they've done. You can dive around desert islands
and wrecks, swim with the whale sharks and dolphins, tour
the wineries, historic towns and visit national parks bursting
with wildflowers.
Perth, the vibrant and cultured capital city, home to 80%
of WA's 1.8 million population is a good place to base a
tour of the southern regions; Fremantle's laid back café
culture, Rottnest Island's Diving, The HMAS Swan Wreck Dive
in Dunsborough and the natural beauty of the great southwest
coastline and vineyard region of Margaret River, Albany
and Esperance.
North of Perth, as the highway stretches into ever-increasing
distances between towns, the natural beauty unfolds before
your eyes.
Shark Bay and Monkey Mia teem with marine life (including
some of the friendliest dolphins around) and as seasonal
home to the world's largest fish, the Whale Shark, Exmouth's
Ningaloo Reef invitingly tempts you into the water.
Further north still, Broome is the base of the magnificent
Kimberley region, one of Australia's last frontiers. It
is an isolated region of mountain ranges, pearlers, great
beaches, creeks and rivers and hiding some of the finest
examples of Aboriginal Art to be seen anywhere. Broome is
also the access point for the diving delights of the Rowley
Shoals, offshore the northwest coast. Despite enormous advances
in the past decade in the Kimberley region, this is still
a little-travelled and remote area of magnificent scenery
and cultural secrets.
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