On the far side of Australia from the Great Barrier Reef, Ningaloo does something its famous rival can't: coral gardens that begin a wade from the beach. At Turquoise Bay the current drifts you over the reef like a moving walkway — walk up the sand, float down over coral bommies thick with fish, exit before the channel, repeat until pruned. April to July adds whale sharks offshore.
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