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The Town Council operates a Tourist Information Service from a central location in The Strand. The service is staffed by a team of volunteers. Please come and see our wonderful team of volunteers at:

45A, The Strand, Exmouth, EX8 1AL Telephone Number – 01395 830550

We have access to a wide range of information to help make your stay in the area as enjoyable as possible, including information on visitor attractions, activities and forthcoming events. Help can be offered with accommodation, leaflets, bus/train times and maps.

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Exmouth Town Council operates a Tourist Information Service its central premises in the Strand. The service is staffed by a team of volunteers.

We have access to a wide range of information to help make your stay in the area as enjoyable as possible, including information on visitor attractions, activities and forthcoming events. Help can be offered with accommodation, leaflets, bus/train times and maps.

You can drop into our office, call us on 01395 830550 or  email us .

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Exmouth is a town in Western Australia , midway between Perth and Broome , with a resident population of 2,806 in 2021. The main reasons to visit are to dive Ningaloo Reef , and to see Cape Range National Park .

Understand [ edit ]

Exmouth is pronounced "ex-MOUTH" without shortening the vowel sound. Its Aboriginal people were the Yinikutira (or Jinigudira), and the first European visitors were Dutch mariners in 1618. In the late 19th century the area was visited by pearlers and whalers, but there was no settlement until World War II. In 1942 Japan captured the Dutch East Indies (nowadays Indonesia) and could launch attacks against Australia, perhaps even invade, so air and sea bases were needed in this region. The Allied commanders thought the location was unpromising but would "give it a potshot" and this name stuck. Operation Potshot established US and Australian bases, with over 1000 US troops, an airfield, radar and air defences, and a submarine refuelling station. The troops were withdrawn in 1943 as the Japanese threat faded, but the air strip was kept on to become RAAF Learmonth. A civilian town only appeared in the 1960s to support the Naval Communications Station, which remains active.

The bay is shallow, and there aren't the valuable ores that have turned the Pilbara ports into dusty busy places, so Exmouth has a sleepy small town feel even in the mid-Nov to mid-March tourist season. It is surrounded by endless beaches, national parks, and arid beauty. You can always find a beach and a reef to have nearly to yourself.

Exmouth is just north of the Tropic of Capricorn, at latitude 22° south. That means the midday sun is directly overhead (as near as) 20 days before and 20 days after midsummer, and pretty close to overhead from November through January. The climate is usually dry from June through January, and the landscape is arid.

Most rain falls from February to May: not much in annual total, but it can come down in a deluge, when even the main highway may flood. Do not attempt to cross moving water (the depth indicators at the creeks show how deep it can get), and stay off dirt roads in the wet.

Get in [ edit ]

By plane [ edit ]

• Exmouth Aerodrome ( EXM  IATA ), ☏ +61 407 494 419 . An airstrip for private aviation 10 km south of town. It's a sealed runway and there are landing lights, but it may be awash in wet weather, and there's no fence to keep out animals. Phone ahead before flying in, and talk on CTAF 118.3. There's no fuel available. ( updated Jul 2022 )

By bus [ edit ]

Integrity Coaches run three times a week between Perth and Exmouth, where the bus stop is by the Visitor Information Centre. They leave Perth Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays around 8AM, reaching Exmouth around 3PM next day. They'll drop-off and pick-up at Coral Bay town and Learmonth Airport if pre-booked. The Tuesday-to-Wednesday bus continues north to Broome and on the other two days it continues to Port Hedland. The southbound buses leave Exmouth Tu F Su around 1:30PM, reaching Perth by 8AM next day.

By car [ edit ]

Driving yourself, allow three days to reach Exmouth from Perth or Broome , and it will feel like the rest of your life to reach Darwin , 3400 km away.

Get around [ edit ]

You need wheels. The town is spread out, uncomfortable to trek under a summer sun, and the sights along the coast and Cape Range National Park are many km out.

Car hire is available from Avis , Hertz , Europcar , Budget and Escape .

See [ edit ]

North [ edit ].

• -21.815 114.185 1 Point Murat 14 km north is the headland near the tip of North West Cape. The Navy Pier, 110 m long, is still used by navy vessels, so access is only allowed on regulated dive trips (see below) - no snorkelling or clambering on the structure. Bundegi Beach just south can be reached by public road and has a boat jetty. Beyond the beach turn-off, Murat Road is closed to all except authorised vehicles. The Point and coast highway are named for Admiral Joachim Murat (1767-1815), a Napoleonic cavalry marshal who knew diddly-squat about the sea, and who was executed by firing squad for changing sides unsuccessfully.
• Howard E Holt Naval Communication Station is the military base by the Point, so it's off-limits, but you'll see its "Tower Zero" from afar. This is 387 m / 1270 ft tall, set within a hexagon of 364 m towers, and its job is radio comms with faraway ships and submarines at very low frequency, 19.8 kHz. For a standard monopole aerial to work at that wavelength it would need to be almost 4 km tall, so the trick is to amplify it with an array of subsidiary masts. In civilian transmitters these are low-set and look like the ribs of an umbrella, but to talk to submerged subs demands very high power. So this leads to the "trideco" design, where the other masts are almost as tall, and to a radio wave they look like a hexagonal antenna 2 km across. There's no credible evidence of side effects on wildlife, aircraft comms or anything tangible, but the station does spawn dingbat memes. One favourite is that it controls the weather - ever since it was commissioned in 1968, Australia has been a hot dry country, right? It's named for Howard Holt who was the prime minister from 1966 to 1967, when he disappeared while swimming in Victoria . . . spooky huh?
• -21.784 114.168 2 SS Mildura is a wreck visible at low tide 80 m off the tip of the cape. It was a steam-powered cattle ship, driven onto the rocks in a cyclone of 1907. Much of its metal was salvaged for scrap, and in World War II it was used as a bombing target. The turn-off to the cape is helpfully called Mildura Wreck Road.
• -21.691 114.319 3 South Muiron Island is glimpsed 15 km off the cape, with Peak Island behind it. These islands along the reef are all uninhabited nature reserves.
• -21.808 114.112 4 Vlamingh Head Lighthouse was completed in 1912 and de-activated in 1969 when a light was fitted to one of the naval radio towers. It's a popular place to watch the sun set over the ocean (which you can't do in Exmouth, where the sun sets behind the hills) - and indeed the sun rise, as it's one of the few places on the continent with an ocean view both ways. On top of the hill is the remains of a radar dish installed for Operation Potshot in 1942, and destroyed by a cyclone in 1945. The bay is a popular diving spot.
• Jurabi Turtle Centre by the lighthouse facilitates seasonal viewing of broody turtles hauling ashore, in ways that won't impact on their egg-laying.
• -21.938 113.968 5 Cape Range National Park is entered 20 km south of the lighthouse, see separate page for park fees, sights and regulations. The road continues south through the park (tarmacked and suitable for standard cars) for another 30 km to end at Yardie Creek.

South [ edit ]

• -22.0649 114.011 6 Shothole Canyon is within Cape Range National Park , but accessed from the main road 17 km south of Exmouth not by the Yardie Creek Road. It's a 12 km dirt road along the canyon floor, 4WD recommended. (The park suggest you can get in by 2WD in fine weather, but they're ominously silent about the getting out again.) The shotholes were for explosive charges in the 1950s, to seismically map the bedrock. Fortunately they didn't find any oil; unfortunately some charges remain unexploded.
• -22.0986 114.006 7 Charles Knife Canyon is a similar dirt road into the Park, 4WD recommended, which branches off the main highway 5 km further south. It winds up the canyon floor until it almost meets Shothole Canyon at its head. Charles Knife and Jack King built it for oil prospectors, who had no better luck here than before. From the Thomas Carter Lookout, you can take the Badjirrajirra loop trail, 6 km and allow 3 hours.
• -22.2034 114.0888 8 Krait Memorial near Learmonth jetty commemorates Operation Jaywick, a commando raid against Japanese-occupied Singapore in 1943. Krait had been the Japanese fishing boat Kofuku Maru , seized by the US at the outbreak of war and used to rescue survivors of shipwrecks along the Sumatra coast. It was handed over to Australia and sailed from Learmonth into Singapore harbour, where the commandos transferred to canoes and attached limpet mines to shipping: six ships were sunk. Krait snuck away undetected and the Japanese assumed it was local sabotage, and tortured or killed anyone remotely suspected. The vessel is on display in Darling Harbour, Sydney.
• The Solar Observatory by the jetty monitors solar events and space weather, important for global telecoms. No tours.
• -22.182 113.9859 9 Fig Tree Cave is up another dirt road, high clearance 4WD only. You shimmy 8 m down a rope ladder into a decorated cave. It's just outside the park, the dirt road crosses private farm land, and since 2020 the landowners have closed public access.
• Potshot Memorial is on the main highway approaching Learmonth Airport.

Do [ edit ]

Onshore [ edit ]

• Ningaloo Aquarium is at 2 Truscott Cres opposite the RAC caravan park, adult $19, child or conc $14. It's open daily 9AM-4:30AM, except Nov-Mar when Sa Su it closes at 1PM. They also organise boat trips.
• Town beach is the long sandy strip by Mantarays.
• Golf: Exmouth Golf Club is the park east of the main highway, reached by Willersdorf Rd towards the coast.
• See Cape Range National Park for sights further west.

Offshore [ edit ]

• Dive shops in town are Exmouth Diving and Dive Ningaloo - this latter is the only operator taking trips to Navy Pier. They also offer whale-watching and other boat trips, but not dive training so you need to be already certified.
• Snorkelling is possible at multiple spots, but the best (such as Turquoise Beach) are within Cape Range National Park a 50 km drive round the cape.
• Whale sharks ( Rhincodon typus ) are most often seen in the bay April to June. Boat operators use spotter planes to identify those you might snorkel with - they need to be shallow, moving slowly and not skittish. Then the skipper lines up the boat and you jump in and snorkel alongside the whale, no touching. It's like trying to keep pace with a large road truck illuminated by a glitter-ball, it soon leaves you behind, then the boat recovers everyone and tries for another encounter. (Scuba is not permitted, and pointless as you'd move so slowly.) Boat operators include Kings Ningaloo Reef Tours , Whale Shark Dive and Ningaloo Blue.
• Humpback whales ( Megaptera novaeangliae ) throng the bay in autumn and spring. You can join a tour or approach in your own boat with care. These beasts swim too fast for snorkelling but display surface behaviours such as breaching.

Buy [ edit ]

• Supermarkets: Ningaloo IGA and Exmouth IGA are cheek-by-jowl on Ross St / Maidstone Cres. Both have a good range, and are open daily 7AM- 7PM.
• ATMs are in both IGA supermarkets.
• Fresh Fish Shack on Pellew St is a fish wholesaler, open M-F 9AM-5PM, Sa 9AM-12:30PM.

Eat [ edit ]

• Exhale , 1 Thew St , ☏ +61 8 9949 1400 . W-Su 7:30AM-11AM . Pleasant cafe for breakfast. ( updated Jan 2022 )
• Ningaloo Bakehouse by the supermarkets is open for breakfast daily 6AM-10:30PM. The bakery store remains open M-Sa to 5PM and Su to 3PM.
• Bluelips is a fish & chips and burger takeaway on Thew St next to the supermarkets, open W-Su 5:30PM-8PM. Many customers are underwhelmed.
• The BBqfather , 1112 Murat Rd , ☏ +61 8 9949 4905 . M-Sa 5:30PM-9PM . Mainstream Italian and BBQ, serves wine and beer. Scores well on quality. ( updated Jan 2022 )
• Froth Craft Brewery , 5 Kennedy St , ☏ +61 8 9949 1451 . Daily noon-11PM . It's as much a family-friendly restaurant as a brewhouse, good atmosphere. ( updated Jan 2022 )
• Whalers , 2 Murat Rd ( by Escape Resort ), ☏ +61 8 9949 2416 . Daily 7AM-10:30PM . Reliable place for steak and seafood. ( updated Jan 2022 )

Drink [ edit ]

• Cadillacs bar and grill has Country & Western live music. It's opposite the RAC caravan park but was closed in 2021.
• Whalebone Brewing is a family-friendly place serving pizza and craft beers. It's south end of town at 27 Patterson Way, open daily 4PM-10PM.
• See Eat and Sleep for other places serving drink, especially Froth Craft Brewery and Potshot.

Sleep [ edit ]

• -21.929 114.125 1 Potshot , 561 Murat Rd , ☏ +61 8 9949 1200 , [email protected] . Good value motel with lively pub and restaurant. They also have six-bed dorms, see below. Double room $250, Dorm $37 ppn . ( updated Sep 2022 )
• Exmouth YHA is the hostel within Potshot.
• Osprey Holliday Village are self-catering apartments across the road from Potshot, with Exmouth Villas a block south.
• -21.933 114.126 2 Ningaloo Lodge , 1 Lefroy St ( south end of Maidstone Cres ), ☏ +61 8 9949 4949 , [email protected] . Pleasant motel with pool and laundry, close to TIC and Italian restaurant Double room $165 . ( updated Jan 2022 )
• -21.935 114.128 3 Ningaloo Caravan and Holiday Resort , 1112 Murat Rd , ☏ +61 8 9949 2377 . Clean well-run resort with chalets, 250 caravan hook-ups and 40 camping pitches. Their dorm is closed, and pets are only allowed in caravans and camping areas. ( updated Jan 2022 )
• -21.938 114.131 4 RAC Exmouth Cape Holiday Park , 3 Truscott Cres , ☏ +61 1800 871 570 . Clean friendly park with rooms and pitches. Double room $150, hook-up $45, pitch $40 . ( updated Jan 2022 )
• -21.945 114.133 5 Exmouth Escape Resort , Murat Rd ( corner of Welch St ), ☏ +61 8 9949 4800 . Resort with self-catering apartments. Double $350 . ( updated Jan 2022 )
• -21.954 114.138 6 Mantarays Ningaloo Beach Resort ( formerly Novotel ), Madaffari Drive , ☏ +61 8 9949 0000 . Beach resort hotel with great reviews for comfort, service and food. Double $400 . ( updated Jan 2022 )

Connect [ edit ]

As of Jan 2022, Exmouth town has 4G from Telstra, which extends north to the navy transmitter and lighthouse, then gives out along the road to the park entrance. A basic mobile signal extends south to the Burkett Rd junction but with a lot of dead areas around the airport. As of August 2022 there's also good 4G signal from Optus, at least in town. There's no signal from Vodafone. 5G has not reached this area.

Go next [ edit ]

• North the road winds round the cape to Cape Range National Park . It's a dead-end so you have to return to Exmouth.
• South is the only through-road out of town. Stay on it to reach the airport, the turn-off for Coral Bay after 130 km, then after another 80 km it joins the Northwest Coastal Highway just south of Minilya Roadhouse. Further south lie Carnarvon , Geraldton and a choice of onward routes to Perth.
• Northeast for Onslow , Karratha , Port Hedland and Broome , start southward and turn left around the 80 km mark onto Burkett Road, which cuts east across Bullara and Giralia Stations to the NW Coastal Highway. This saves 200 km on going around via Minilya.

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Exmouth is located 1270kms north of Perth on the tip of the North West Cape. This equates to only a short 1 hour 45 minute flight from Perth. Exmouth is known worldwide for its unique opportunity to swim with whale sharks but few people realise that whale sharks are just the tip of the iceberg of what Exmouth has to offer.

Exmouth’s “range to reef” experience actually offers year round attractions for people of all ages and personalities. The marine park includes the world famous Ningaloo Reef providing unsurpassed diving and snorkelling. Whilst the Cape Range National Park provides magnificent walking and four wheel driving.

Exmouth is easily accessible with direct flights daily from Perth with Qantas. There is also a coach company that service Exmouth where bookings can be made through The Exmouth Visitor Centre on Murat Road. Exmouth Visitor Centre is also the bus terminal for the coach company service.

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The multi-award-winning Ningaloo Visitor Centre is the booking and information hub of the Ningaloo region.

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Western Australia’s Coral Coast – mid way along the Western Australia coastline – extends for over 1000km. Take the Indian Ocean Drive from Cervantes in the south, some 2 hours north of Perth, up to the Coral Coast’s main centre of Geraldton and onto Exmouth in the north. The sea is bluer here, the skies clearer and the rich colours of the coastline make this drive an adventure to fill the senses with extraordinary natural sights both onshore and underwater and unforgettable experiences including hand feeding dolphins in the wild and swimming with whale sharks.

It’s sunset – a favourite time in the Western Australia capital of Perth when you can watch the sun go down over the ocean from one of the city’s 19 beaches; see the shiny glass towers of the city glisten as you take in the view from Kings Park overlooking the city centre; or maybe seeing the city skyline from aboard a sunset cruise on the broad expanse of the Swan River.

A glorious coastline of rocky outbreaks that frame pristine white beaches and sapphire blue seas together with the food and especially the wine of the Margaret River wine region are just some of the highlights awaiting when you explore WA’s South West. From Perth it’s an easy three-hour drive south to Busselton and the start of the Margaret River. Busselton offers up a postcard setting by the seaside – a long white sandy beach, the calm clear blue seas of Geographe Bay and an endlessly long jetty complete with miniature train and an underwater observatory.

Have you ever wanted to swim with some of nature’s giants – humpback whales and the graceful whale sharks?

On Australia’s Coral Coast at the northern end of the Ningaloo Coast, you can experience both with tours from Exmouth and nearby Coral Bay.

Exmouth, 1,270km north of Perth , lies at the northern edge of the World Heritage-listed Ningaloo Coast – a 300km stretch of pristine coral reefs, many tantalising close to the shores, that are home to beautiful coral gardens, tropical fish and annual visits by the gentle giants of the sea – whale sharks . Tours offering the chance to swim with these magnificent marine creatures operate between mid-March to August from Exmouth while tours to swim with humpbacks operate between July and August.

Exmouth is a relatively young community, established in 1967 for the Harold E. Holt US Naval Communication Station North West Cape. A cluster of towers including one reaching a staggering 387m high, provide a VLF radio transmissions for US Navy and Royal Australian Navy submarines, echoing the time when this region was a refuelling base for Allied submarines during World War II.

Exmouth’s visitor attractions include Indigenous, European and military history. The name ‘Ningaloo’ means ‘land jutting out to sea’ from the local Yinigudura people. Midden heaps, ancient campfires and a beaded necklace dating back 32,000 years discovered at Mandu Mandu Gorge Rock Shelter are some of the local Indigenous artefacts.20 th century histories include Vlamingh Head Lighthouse and the military memorials to the Krait and Potshot operations.

The Cape Range National Park on the North West Cape includes deep canyons carved by the constant action of water and stark, rugged limestone cliffs. Sunrise is best for stunning views of Charles Knife and Shothole Canyon from Charles Knife Gorge Road while walking tracks lead through the canyons. Other sights include the wreck of the SS Mildura, Vlamingh Head Lighthouse lookout and boat tours on Yardie Creek gorge to the southwest of Exmouth containing the only permanent water in the Cape Range.

Exmouth and Coral Bay to the south, are the two holiday locations with accommodation and services for visitors and the embarkation points for a range of tours, diving charters, encounter experiences, fishing charters, glass bottom boat tours and more.

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