Marine wildlife
Marine wildlifeMarine wildlife guides for Coral Bay.
5 things
- Swimming with manta raysHover above the reef as a manta ray banks and barrel-rolls beneath you — Coral Bay's signature encounter, and a resident population you can swim with all year.
- Swimming with whale sharksSlip into the Indian Ocean beside the world's largest fish on a full-day boat trip — from Coral Bay, the quieter of Ningaloo's two whale-shark bases.
- Humpback whale swimsEach winter tens of thousands of humpbacks migrate past Ningaloo — and Coral Bay is one of the few places on Earth you can legally swim with them.
- Reef-shark nurseryWalk to the north end of the bay and watch dozens of baby reef sharks cruise the shallows — free, shore-based, and one of Coral Bay’s most distinctive sights.
- TurtlesGreen turtles graze the lagoon year-round, and over summer the beaches north of town become a nesting rookery.
