Ningaloo Marine Park

The Ningaloo Marine Park is a protected area of the more than 250 km long Ningaloo Reef, in the north of Western Australia. The reef is unbelievably well accessible and it’s lying only 100m offshore from some parts of the beaches. More than 220 different kinds of corals were already sighted there. A special event each year is the synchronised mass spawning of coral in March. This takes place for eight or nine nights after the full moon in March. Ningaloo is the only place in the world where is appearing the largest fish of the world, the whale shark, each year. There are also sharks, enormous Manta rays, humpback whales, turtles and more than 500 species of other fish types. Therefore is this place the mecca for marine biologists and visitors alike.