The Indian Ocean stretches from WA to the east coast of Africa and offers a wealth of islands, many with white-sand beaches ringed by coconut palms and aquamarine water.
For an island continent with massive oceans on both its epic seaboards, the one on the eastern, not the western side, dominates our attention.
What’s more, the Indian Ocean, more exotic than its counterparts, is also the warmest and home to 20 per cent of the planet’s salt water. The Maldives – with those romantic resorts on those perfect little private islands – are the region’s best known and most popular destination. And there’s Bali, of course, the most iconic of Indonesia’s string of 17,000 islands, and Mauritius and Sri Lanka.
Just a 25-minute ferry ride off the coast from Fremantle, Perth’s favourite holiday spot might be tiny, but it’s home to 63 beaches and 20 bays. It’s blissfully car-free. Hire a bike and watch whales and dolphins pass by in crystal-clear water. And it’s home to quokkas – small marsupials found nowhere else. See
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