Marine wildlife
Marine wildlifeMarine wildlife guides for Exmouth & Cape Range.
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- Swimming with whale sharksSlip into the Indian Ocean beside the world's largest fish — a gentle, plankton-feeding giant, mostly 4–12 m at Ningaloo — on one of the only reefs where the encounter is reliable.
- Swimming with manta raysHover above the reef as a manta ray banks and barrel-rolls beneath you — one of Ningaloo's most graceful and dependable encounters.
- Humpback whale watchingEach winter around 40,000 humpbacks surge past Ningaloo — and Exmouth is one of the few places on Earth you can legally swim with them.
- OrcasNingaloo's biggest wildcard — apex-predator orcas occasionally cruise the reef during the humpback migration, but sightings are rare and never guaranteed.
