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Dolphin Cruise and Views
Highlights
- Cruise through Mandurah's pristine waters to encounter over 100 playful Indo-Pacific Bottlenose dolphins in their natural habitat.
- Explore the stunning canals and wetlands while spotting pelicans and ospreys, enhancing your connection with nature.
- Enjoy engaging live commentary from expert marine guides, enriching your experience with local history and wildlife stories.
- Delight in nautical fun for kids on deck, featuring a captain's wheel and giant binoculars for memorable adventures.
Cruise with playful, wild dolphins on Western Australia’s best-value marine tour! Dolphin sightings are guaranteed, or cruise again for free!
Explore Mandurah’s winding waterways on a one-hour scenic cruise, showcasing the highlights of this coastal paradise.
The award-winning city’s pristine waters are home to more than 100 Indo-Pacific Bottlenose dolphins – the largest residential population in Western Australia. See these captivating creatures up close as they feed and play in their natural environment.
Surrounded by a giant estuary, Mandurah Cruises takes you travelling through the city’s calm inland waterways – magnificent canals lined with luxury homes, to its fishing boat harbour and vast wetlands of world importance.
Spot pelicans, ospreys, swans and waterbirds on the wetlands. Visit cultural landmarks and learn about local Aboriginal history along the way. Kids love nautical fun on deck, with a lifelike engine room, captain’s wheel, boat bell, giant binoculars and more.
Enjoy live commentary by expert marine guides, sharing stories of Mandurah. Add famous local fish and chips from Cicerello’s.
Mandurah Cruises prioritise meeting the needs of all individuals, including those with accessibility requirements. This tour operates aboard the ‘Mandjar’ which is a wheelchair/walking frame accessible vessel.
Cruises depart daily from central Mandurah.
Itinerary highlights
WA’s best value marine tour. Dolphins guaranteed!
View Mandurah’s wild dolphins in their natural environment.
Mandurah has a large population of 90 wild Indo-Pacific Bottlenose dolphins that reside in its large expansion of waterways. They are playful creatures who enjoy playing and surfing in the wake of the vessels and interacting with the guests on board. Our local expert tour guides show case this and the other amazing environmental highlights to you – but if the wild dolphins don’t visit during your cruise, come again for free!
Tour details
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Available from 1 April 2018 to 31 December 2026
Features
Service facilities
Service Tags
Sevice Activity
Actively welcomes people with access needs.
General access
- Offers multiple options for booking – web, email, phone is available.
- Offers a range of contact methods for receiving complaints.
- Companion Cards are accepted.
- Employs people with disabilities.
- Staff are trained in disability awareness.
- Asks all visitors if there are any specific needs to be met.
- Advise tour guides of the access needs of guests at the time of booking (includes pick up and drop off requirements)
- Assistance with booking arrangements (includes providing clear itineraries with written instructions on what to do at various destinations)
Communication
Welcomes and assists people who have challenges with learning, communication, understanding and behaviour. (includes people with autism, intellectual disability, Down syndrome, acquired brain injury (ABI), dyslexia and dementia)
- Staff are trained in communicating with people with learning or behavioural challenges.
- Uses Plain English / easy read signage and information (includes menus and emergency information)
Vision
Caters for people who are blind or have vision loss.
- Information in large print is available.
- Digital communication materials (hard copy information also online) is available.
- Uses easy to read fonts in their signage and communication materials (Helvetica and Arial).
- Handrails on all stairways
Hearing
Caters for people who are deaf or have hearing loss.
- Visual alerts for emergencies (Include flashing light) are available.
- A low noise reception areas with hearing loss friendly acoustics and adequate lighting for viewing facial expressions (includes common areas which are free of background noise, background music) is available.
Physical – Mobility
Caters for people with sufficient mobility to climb a few steps but who would benefit from fixtures to aid balance. (This includes people using walking frames and mobility aids)
- Uses floors/coverings which are slip resistant, firm and smooth
- Uses non-slip tiles in the bathroom or slip resistant matting
Physical – Wheelchair
Caters for people who use a wheelchair.
- Step free outdoor pathways (includes picnic areas, barbecues and shelters)
- A step free main entrance to the building and/or reception area (includes ramps or slopes with a maximum gradient of 1:14, otherwise are too steep for wheelchairs)
- Wheelchair access to amusements and activities including boats and bush trails (includes tour rides, skyways, trolley cars, flying fox, amusement rides and boating).
- At least one wheelchair accessible parking space with wheelchair accessible signage clearly displayed (International standards are 3200mm wide x 2500 mm high).
- Wheelchair accessible transport options available in the general vicinity (provide information on name of the operator, phone and website link to individual providers for private vehicles, community transport train, mini vans, hire cars, buses, taxis, ferry, tram, light rail etc in their access statement).
Physical – High support needs
Caters for people with high support needs who travel with a support person.
- A place to store medical equipment (eg oxygen).
Allergies and intolerances
Caters for people with allergies and intolerances.
- Modify their cooking and cleaning practices to cater for people with food allergies or chemical intolerances (could include menus with meals free from: nuts, dairy, seafood, eggs, gluten etc).
Operation information
Mandurah Cruises
Mandurah Cruises offers unique experiences in a beautiful place – just one hour from Perth.
Their marine tours are hosted by locals who love the place, with warm hospitality, no matter the budget. For family fun, try their Dolphin Cruise and Views tour (with lunchtime fish and chips). Pure joy for all ages, with a built-in dolphin guarantee – if you don’t see dolphins, you come again free!
Perennially popular, there’s the amazing Canal Christmas Lights Cruises, the world’s only waterborne Christmas lights tour. This is for many an annual event so get in early!
For relaxed touring, the half-day Murray River Lunch Cruise travels down this beautiful historic river. It includes a walking tour at historic Cooper’s Mill on Coolenup Island, plus three courses of onboard dining using fresh local produce.
For barefoot luxury, enjoy their Wild Seafood Cruise, basking in the sunshine like a VIP feasting on fresh-caught Western Australian lobster, among a seven-course local seafood banquet, cooked by a private onboard chef, paired with complimentary fine wines and beers.
Mandurah Cruises is committed to accommodating accessibility requirements, with many tours operating on wheelchair accessible vessels.
Activities
Tags
Accreditations
- Accessible Tourism Limited Mobility
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EcoStar Accreditation
- Marine Tourism Accreditation
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Quality Tourism Accreditation
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Sustainable Tourism Accreditation by ATIC
- Tourism Emission Reduction Commitment
Memberships
- Australian Tourism Export Council
- Regional Tourist/Tourism Association/Organisation
- Visitor Information Centre
- WA – Destination Perth
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