Western Australia

Western Australia offers numerous and varying attractions from coastal beaches and rugged mountains to wine regions and pearl fishing areas.

The Kimberley's Bungle Bungle (Purnululu) national park is distinguished by its rounded rock towers striped horizontally in alternating orange and black.

Camel treks are an attraction at Cable Beach in Broome, Western Australia.

Go trysting with the friendly bottlenose dolphins off the west coast of Western Australia.

Rottnest Island is one of the most accessible Western Australia diving and snorkeling sites, being just 19 kilometres off the coast from Fremantle.

A look at Australia's largest state and its innumerable and unique attractions.

Western Australia's Kimberley region is a vast largely unexplored wilderness area about three times the size of England. Numerous wilderness attractions are to be found in the region.

Fremantle, seaport of the Western Australia capital Perth, is itself a separate city but is often considered a Perth suburb.

Western Australia's Margaret River region is noted for its fine wines and more than 40 surfing locations along the coast with a variety of surfing conditions.

Western Australia's Mt Augustus is recognised as the world's biggest rock but is not a monolith like Uluru in the Northern Territory.

The Ningaloo Coast in Western Australia is one of Australia's World Heritage sites and the third in Western Australia after Purnululu National Park and Shark Bay.

Here is where you can swim with the biggest sharks during lare autumn and winter.

Map of the city centre fronting the Swan River.

Regional map showing areas around Perth including the port of Fremantle.

From your About.com Guide, tour the Perth city centre, enjoy the Perth lifestyle.

The Perth Wildflower Festival takes place in the spring at Kings Park and Botanic Garden.

From Perth to Rottnest Island, then up the coast and into the Kimberley.

The red and green kangaroo paw is the state flower of Western Australia.

The true story of a hitchhiking, people-loving red kelpie in Western Australia's Pilbara region has been adapted for the screen, filmed on location, and released as Red Dog in Australian cinemas in August 2011.

Holiday and quokka haven close to Perth and Fremantle. Beaches, corals, historic sites, and a colony of what Dutch explorers thought were giant rats. Swim, surf, dive, fish, bike, bus, fly.

Discover the underwater attractions at Rottnest Island. Go diving and snorkeling. Pictures.

Shark Bay on the western coast of Western Australia, is a World Heritage site and home to dugongs, dolphins and stromatolites: a fascinating aquatic world and a diver's paradise.

Southwestern Western Australia in the continental Australian Southwest region includes coastal cities and towns from Fremantle to Albany.

The Staircase to the Moon is a coastal phenomenon in Broome, Western Australia.

Stromatolites found at their most diverse and in great abundance at Hamelin Pool, Shark Bay, Western Australia, may look like rocks but they are in fact living things, believed to be the oldest living organisms on earth.

Fancy a flutter in Perth? Try your luck at this casino on the Great Eastern Highway.

Small settlement protected from the Indian ocean by the Ningaloo reef on the West Australian coast. Resort hotel, two caravan parks, about 20 houses.

Here's where to start a diving experience among the whale sharks in the Ningaloo Reef.