Exmouth Australia

One Year in Australia: Exmouth WA

Exmouth is so far my favorite place in Western Australia. I hope I find myself there again soon, mainly floating in the sea, over the amazing and largely underrated Ningaloo reef.

After a long 13 hour drive from Geraldton, the last thing you want to do is get up for dawn the next morning, so glad that I did however, greeted with such amazing colour and glorious temperatures. Exmouth Australia was a complete contrast to the United Kingdom namesake, a place that exists only in the sausage-and-chips caravan holiday’s of my youth. Never one that usually longs to return to a place I have already visited either, preferring to seek out new adventures; Japan the only exception up to this point.

Exmouth, The Kangaroo encounter:

It occurred to me recently that I have lived out of luggage for the past 3-4 years, transferring my possessions from hold all to suitcase, car to train to plane. Still, I have a lot of fun doing it, I still do it, and I am doing it again.

Not quite coming to terms with calendar holidays south of the equator, the best way was to get back on the road up to Exmouth Australia, the non Devonshire Western Australian version, that they insist on pronouncing ‘Ex-mouth’ for anyone from the UK.

Situated on the northwest cape of Western Australia Exmouth and established very recently in 1964, to support a United States naval communication station there. Now of course, tourism is the reason most find themselves in the area, experiencing both the fantastic Ningaloo Reef (second only to the Great Barrier reef) and Cape range National Park. If you are lucky enough, at certain times of the year is the Whale Shark migration swelling the local population of 1,800 to 10,000+.

It was impossible to overcome the 1200km from Perth in one day, instead we stopped first at Geraldton, waking the next morning in a beach car park surrounded by brilliant white sand dunes, though no time to enjoy it, we pushed on through the road houses, passed the road trains, and into the Tropic of Capricorn.

Essentially, Exmouth is home to the best of Western Australia I have seen so far, it’s all pretty amazing mind you, this place just sits at the very top.