Day 1: Perth - Lancelin - Cervantes
Pickups start at 7.30 am at the YHA on Wellington Street. The group then drives up the beautiful Sunset Tourist Drive picking up from Scarborough Beach and Hillary's on the way. The first stop is Lancelin for some sandboarding. Then it's off to Nambung National Park to see the Pinnacles before reaching your overnight accommodation, where you have some free time to explore the area. (Dorms)
- Meal plan: Lunch and dinner
Day 2: Geraldton - Kalbarri Coast
The Kalbarri Coast will take your breath away with its beauty; take in the unusual pink coloring of Hutt Lagoon, and try to spot migrating whales from the cliff tops in season, enjoy a little free time in Kalbarri before a mouth-watering Aussie BBQ. Overnight in Kalbarri (Dorms).
- Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Day 3: Kalbarri National Park - Midwest Outback - Shark Bay
You travel deep into Kalbarri National Park to the awesome Z-Bend gorge for some optional abseiling and a hike down into this 400 million-year-old landscape, in the season you can enjoy a swim in a secluded pool, then on to Nature's Window. After lunch, you enter the Midwest Outback, land of few people and huge sheep stations.
You drop into the strange Hamelin Pool stromatolites, some of the oldest organisms on Earth and believed to be among the first producers of oxygen, before entering the World Heritage area of Shark Bay and the unique Shell Beach. Tonight, you stay at the Monkey Mia Resort overlooking the beautiful Shark Bay (dorms).
- Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Day 4: Monkey Mia - Eagle Bluff
You arrive at Monkey Mia in time to meet the world-famous Bottlenose Dolphins, enjoy a real close encounter and some free time. Continuing north, you head to Eagle Bluff. From a clifftop spot, you may see below you lots of wildlife including sharks. Traveling ever northwards, you can see why the locals call this area Big Sky Country, also home to the second-longest straight road in Australia.
Tonight you have exclusive use of an Outback Sheep Station shearers quarters; really rustic and great fun - take a ride in the back of a ute to a private beach for sunset, toast marshmallows on the campfire, sit and soak up the ambiance of the Outback, test your astronomy skills at this million-star accommodation, and if you like, you can take your bed outside and fall asleep to the sight of the milky-way and the sounds of the Outback. Sheep Station shearers quarters, twin share (no upgrade available).
- Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Day 5: Coral Bay - Exmouth
You stop on the Tropic of Capricorn before arriving at Coral Bay. Here the beautiful Ningaloo Reef is just meters from the white sandy beach. Today is full of optional activities; you can sit on the beach and swim, hire snorkel and fins to explore the reef yourself, take a glass-bottom boat for a guided tour of what the reef has to offer, or join the eco day tour to swim with the Coral Bay manta rays (includes lunch). Late this afternoon, you make your way up onto the Northwest Cape and into Exmouth. Overnight Potshot Resort (dorms).
- Meal plan: Breakfast and dinner
Day 6: Exmouth
Today is yours to do as you want. There are day cruises with the whale sharks (in season, optional), dive charters to the outer reef (optional), or you can come on the free explorer tour out to Cape Range and Turquoise Bay. Hire snorkeling equipment (optional) and splash straight into the amazing underwater garden of the Ningaloo Reef either in the Bay or on the Drift. Hopefully, you'll spot turtles, octopus, and reef sharks as well as a myriad of multi-colored fish and, of course, the beautiful coral formations that make up the reef. You take a drive up to Vlamingh Head lighthouse for spectacular views over the tip of the Peninsular before heading back to town. Overnight accommodation at Potshot Resort (dorms).
- Meal plan: Breakfast and lunch
Day 7 and 8: Back to Perth
It's time to head back to Perth. You travel south down the highway towards your overnight stop at the Old Convent at Northampton where spooky things can happen. You will stop along the way regularly for anything you may see of interest also fuel, lunch, toilets, etc. Overnight stay is at Old Convent, Northampton (dorms - no ensuite for upgrades). The following day, traveling further back down the highway, you arrive in Perth at your start point at approximately lunchtime.
- Meal plan: Breakfast and dinner
