Ningaloo Reef: The Best Aquarium in the World (but you don't really want to come here)

Watching breaching hump back whales dance, play and show-off, dolphins fly gracefully in and out of the air, flying fish buzzing just above the surface of the water, the dark, menacing shadow of a tiger shark prowling. Swimming with thirty manta rays, a host of tropical fish, turtles, an oceanic white-tipped shark. Oh, and the biggest fish in the world, the regal, utterly breathtaking whale shark. It was a pretty crap day really. If you hate seeing all the sea has to offer in a single day then don’t come to Exmouth. In fact, even if don’t, please don’t come to Exmouth. What made a perfect day even more perfect was that we were one of only a few boats out there. Unlike the Great Barrier Reef, which attracts droves of tourists from around the world, all packing onto massive catamarans so that you share the ocean with hundreds of others, in Ningaloo you are one of a lucky few. The world doesn’t know about the Ningaloo Reef yet, and that is just fine by me.