In Reply to: Ninagloo Park??? posted by Freddy on Friday, 14. August 2009 at 00:00 Bali Time:
You only have a week. The Ningaloo area IS a beautiful with excellent diving & fishing but driving there from Perth would be time consuming & expensive without considering accommodation costs. Not much to look at en route either.
Look at http://www.ningalooreef.net/ if you haven't already.
The problems travelling in WA are the vast distances & the sparse population. Compared with, say, the southern coast of Queensland & the northern coast of New South Wales, it is pretty boring. Before I get flamed - I live in Perth, have been to Ningaloo several times & ditto the areas mentioned over East as my parents live on the Gold Coast & we have an investment property near Coffs Harbour. Both very beautiful parts of the world but far more to do & see in one week over East.
You would probably have trouble changing $US outside of Perth CBD.
Air Asia is doing cheap fares to Perth.