The Outback Coast Region
The Outback Coast covers 144,000 sq/km and has over 600km of coast line, it`s the premier soft adventure destination in Western Australia covering Shark bay to Exmouth the perfect place to visit anytime of the year.
The Pilbara Region
The Pilbara Region of North Western Australia covers Port Headland, Roebourne, Tom Price, Karijini NP, Marbale Bar, Rudall River, Newman, Onslow,Point Samson, Karratha and Millstream.
The Kimberleys Region
The Kimberleys is the most remote part of Western australia and this is where the Beehive-like rocks know as the Bungle Bungles can be found but thats not all, from spectacular beachs to its amazing scenery. This is the outback.
Major attractions for the North West
Karijini (formerly Hamersley Range) National Park is the second largest national park in WA. A party led by explorer F.T. Gregory explored the area in 1861. He named the Hamersley Range, on which the park is centred, after his friend Edward Hamersley.
Situated just north of the Tropic of Capricorn, the park's climate can best be described as tropical semi-desert. A highly variable, mainly summer rainfall of 250–350 mm, often associated with thunderstorms and cyclones, is accompanied by temperatures frequently topping 40 degrees Celsius. The ideal times to visit the park are late autumn, winter and early spring. Winter days are warm and clear, but nights are cold and sometimes frosty.
Karijini National Park protects many different wildlife habitats, landscapes, plants and animals of the Pilbara. Wildflowers vary with the seasons. In the cooler months the land is covered with yellow-flowering cassias and wattles, northern bluebells and purple mulla-mullas. After rain many plants bloom profusely.
It is also home to a variety of birds, red kangaroos and euros, rock-wallabies, echidnas and several bat species. Geckos, goannas, dragons, legless lizards, pythons and other snakes are abundant. Huge termite mounds are a feature of the landscape and the rock piles of the rare pebble mound mouse may be found in spinifex country.
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