Coral Bay stargazing

Walk up the dune after dark — no city lights for hundreds of kilometres.

When

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Year-round; crispest in the dry season, Milky Way core highest in winter.Full year on the Plan →

Coral Bay is a tiny town on a very dark coast: a few minutes up the lookout dune (or along the beach away from the settlement) and the sky opens right up — the Milky Way, the Southern Cross and both Magellanic Clouds on a clear, moonless night.

It needs nothing but a clear night and twenty minutes of dark-adapted eyes. The wash of the reef below and the whole sky above make it an easy, free end to a day on the water.

More to do at Coral Bay Lookout

Coral Bay sunsetClimb the dune above town for the sun dropping into the Indian Ocean.

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