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Scott Reef, off the Kimberley coast.

Rare glimpse at stunning reef beside Woodside’s gas-drilling ambitions

Scott Reef is, in the words of author Tim Winton, the last “unspoiled” clear-water coral reef in Australia. It’s also near the site of a major gas-drilling proposal.

  • Bianca Hall

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Kassel Germany Billboards and other materials protesting K+S saltworks proposal for Exmouth Gulf region

It’s time this west coast chart-topper got the fame it deserves

It was 1975. Queen was competing with Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin in the charts. And in WA, a new agency was compiling its own “the best of the best” list.

  • Paul Gamblin
Cable Beach near Broome, WA.

I lapped Australia in a caravan and signed a book deal in the same year

As I set off on the adventure of a lifetime, I never dreamed my writing career was also set to soar.

  • Claire van Ryn
Tim Winton with Hazel Walgar.

Tim Winton’s Ningaloo documentary launches in Exmouth

More than 100 Exmouth locals have gathered for the launch of Tim Winton’s three-part ‘love letter’ documentary Ningaloo Nyinggulu, airing on the ABC on Tuesday.

  • Emma Young
Tim Winton is touring the country this week.

Why Tim Winton is happy he never moved to Melbourne

In an exclusive interview, the author tells of 40 years spent helping develop and protect Australian publishing, and where he lives has everything to do with it.

  • Emma Young
Total solar eclipse

‘Absolutely stunning’: Total solar eclipse wows Exmouth as moon and sun put on a show

Exmouth went dark at 11.29am this morning as the moon’s path of totality cross WA’s North West Cape.

  • Hamish Hastie and Holly Thompson
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The riser turret mooring weighs 2500 tonnes and is 83m long.

Woodside’s toxic risk oil tower slowly sinking near Ningaloo Reef

A steel tower likely containing toxic chemicals could sink to the seabed after its removal was delayed for four years by Woodside’s lack of maintenance.

  • Peter Milne
About 20,500 visitors are expected to descend on Exmouth during the eclipse.

The WA coastal town bracing for 18,000 visitors - 10 times its population

The first inkling of the pending influx came about three years ago when an American woman tried to book the entire caravan park. But authorities have a more practical concern, urgently trying to bolster the town’s sewerage capacity.

  • Hamish Hastie
From left: cinematographer Rick Rifici, director Robert Connolly and Tim Winton on location at Ningaloo Reef, where most of the underwater work for Blueback was filmed.

Tim Winton on a blue groper, a novel – and his life-imitates-art moment

With his novel, Blueback, now a movie, the author reflects on how his love of the sea has evolved – and what he’s prepared to do to protect it.

  • Tim Winton
Researchers release a tagged tiger shark  with a video camera attached at Ningaloo Reef.

‘Shark cams’ reveal Ningaloo sea turtles freeze to escape predators’ gaze

Scientists attached cameras to the dorsal fins of sharks at Ningaloo Reef in WA and altered the resulting vision to see through the “eye of the tiger”.

  • Peter de Kruijff

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