Swim with whales off Ningaloo Reef: The Humpback highway

By Max Anderson
October 29 2016 - 12:15am
Otherworldly: Swimming with whales at Ningaloo Reef. Photo: Rory Hodgkinson
Otherworldly: Swimming with whales at Ningaloo Reef. Photo: Rory Hodgkinson
Turtle and snorkeller at Oyster Bridge near Coral Bay. Photo: Nathan Wills
Turtle and snorkeller at Oyster Bridge near Coral Bay. Photo: Nathan Wills

Australia killed its last whale in 1978 – it was animal #764, a female sperm whale taken by the Cheynes Beach Whaling Station in Albany. After 150 years of harvesting blubber, only a few hundred whales were left to ply their lonely migration up the west coast, past Ningaloo Reef to their breeding grounds in the Exmouth Gulf.

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