Monkey Mia Dolphin Experience in Monkey Mia, Western Australia | Landmark & historical place

Monkey Mia Dolphin Experience

Locality: Monkey Mia, Western Australia

Phone: +61 8 9948 1366

Address: 1 Monkey Mia Rd 6537 Monkey Mia, WA, Australia

Website: parks.dpaw.wa.gov.au/park/monkey-mia

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25.01.2022 Did you know we are happy to take your photograph if you are chosen to feed a dolphin during the dolphin experience? Bring your own USB, and for a donation we will pop the photos on there, or purchase one of ours for $30. All USB's come pre-loaded with a selection of amazing Monkey Mia photographs, come with a recycled plastic lanyard and are a decent size of 16GB! So you can focus on the experience then take the memories with you, just like Courtney who met Piccolo.

24.01.2022 The dolphins have left the experience area and are trying to catch whiting in the shallows. Thanks everyone for staying out of the water!

23.01.2022 This is little Summer. He is 18 months old. Here he is trying to catch a whiting using a foraging technique called coastal foraging. He learnt this off his mum Eden. Summer can’t learn these skills or practice them if people are in the water. Therefore if you see the dolphins in the shallows you must exit the water completely. If you are on a sup or paddleboard stay 50m away. This is state legislation. Then Summer has the best chance to catch his fish and a better chance of survival once he is weaned. Thank you on behalf of Summer and Eden and all the coastal foraging dolphins.

23.01.2022 Happy Birthday Samu! While he holds the record for the longest time a calf stayed with their mother during weaning (8 years!), Samu is very much a grown up now. His closest male companions include Shiver, India, Lips and Starlet. He is very easy to identify due to the hole punch through his dorsal fin. Samu will be 11 today, happy birthday Samu :)

20.01.2022 Last weeks dolphin visitation!

20.01.2022 Free Activity tomorrow morning at Monkey Mia! Join staff on a bird walk to try and find as many of the birds in the bay as you can! You will be given a bird id sheet that was kindly donated by the Duke of Edinburgh participants from Willetton Senior High School. Bring your hat, water bottle and waking shoes!

19.01.2022 Watch Out Devils About! For a couple months of the year thorny devils are plentiful in Shark Bay. They come out on the tarmac and the red sand tracks to warm up in the sun. Unfortunately we are seeing many run over a day. They look like sticks, but stay very still so can easily be avoided once you know what to look out for. Most will appear as in the first photo, tail upright. Some, like the one in the second photo (RIP), have tails down. We have also been seeing lots of bluetongue lizards and monitors crossing the roads too. Slow down to avoid them and most importantly never touch or pick up native animals. Please spread the word and help look out for our unique wildlife in Western Australia as you travel around! Photo: Khayla Wordsworth, Monique Birkus

19.01.2022 Happy Birthday Eden! 17 years old today. Eden is the daughter of Piccolo and is the first daughter responsible for making Piccolo a grandmother. Eden and her young calf Summer frequently visit the shallows to socialise and hunt. You can identify Eden by her jagged dorsal fin. Does anyone know what was responsible for making her fin look this way?

19.01.2022 Lots of adult pelicans at Monkey Mia, but never babies. Read this to find out why!

18.01.2022 Sonic is ten today. Four calves are here :)

17.01.2022 The dolphins are fishing offshore but Charlie is out and about! Come and say hello, he is handing out free dolphin watcher sheets as well so you can try and identify the dolphins later.

17.01.2022 Oh the irony! One of the problems with plastic bags is that people don’t have sentimental attachment to them. This often results in them being forgotten about and neglected as you don’t think to keep track of them like you would a personal or heavier duty reusable bag. This is one of 10 plastic bags we found today in bush adjacent to the road. Plastic bags are so lightweight they often fly out of cars and boats without the driver noticing. A very easy solution to this wastage problem is to avoid plastic bags in the first place. Produce bags, shopping bags, thick plastic bags etc. can all be replaced with a heavier more durable sentimental version. Choose to refuse single use plastic and use reusable or skip the bag instead!

16.01.2022 Boaters Be Careful It is calving season here at Monkey Mia and there are a few newborn dolphins in the bay. Newborns are extremely vulnerable if separated from their mother and very uncoordinated! Please do not encourage dolphins to bowride as this is a risk to newborns. If dolphins approach you, slow down and move away. In Western Australia you must give dolphins 100m of space with your boat. This is legislation under the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016. Thank you on behalf of the newborns in the bay. Pictured here is the newest addition, a calf to Rhombus!

16.01.2022 Happy 23rd Birthday Kiya! We told you it was calving season! Dolphins in Monkey Mia are born during the Summer months as the water is much warmer then. Kiya is the daughter to Puck and a regular in the Dolphin Experience Program. Besides her dorsal fin features, what other identifying feature does Kiya have?

15.01.2022 Piccolo checking out the small crowd this morning.

15.01.2022 This Morning. Piccolo with two year old calves Pan and Jindi, who are growing up fast! Pan turned two in October, Jindi turns two on the 20th of December. Piccolo is an excellent mother to Pan and aunty to Jindi, and the Puck family is very close knit.

14.01.2022 Happy Birthday Pan Two years old today! Pan is Piccolo's current calf and it has been a joy watching her explore her environment and learn dolphin life skills. After a shark encounter at only 5 months old she has regained her confidence and learnt to swim with a compromised tail. She was especially playful today at the morning dolphin experiences!

14.01.2022 Happy 13th Birthday Flute! Easily recognizable by her half fin, Flute is a regular to Monkey Mia beach. She is Piccolo's second eldest daughter and at 13 years old is sexually mature. Female dolphins reach sexual maturity anywhere between 10 and 12 years of age. Flute is a very social dolphin, especially with her sisters and cousins, and loves to leap! This has to be one of our favorite photographs taken of one of her leaps. Hopefully we will see her today on her birthday :)... Photo Simon Allen

14.01.2022 Piccolo chasing a mullet just now. The dolphins can suddenly start foraging and can reach speeds of 40km/h. It is important for your safety and for the dolphins well-being that you are no closer than 50m at any time. Watching from the sand is the best view! She didn’t catch this one but it was very entertaining and a great lesson for her calf to watch

12.01.2022 Piccolo now chasing striped butterfish! They can only hunt when people are out of the water so thank you to everyone this morning that watched with staff from the shore.

12.01.2022 'Tis the season to volunteer - https://mailchi.mp/89433fafe3d6/tis-the-season-to-volunteer Can you help us this December? Volunteers wanted!

11.01.2022 Monday afternoon the regular dolphins were coastal foraging for hours. We even witnessed for the first time calves Pan and Jindi catch their own large fish doing this method! They caught their first small baitfish at around 6 months of age but we haven’t seen them with such a large yellowtail bream before. This is a credit to their mothers as calves learnt to hunt by watching their mum hunt. Therefore the more time the mum spends hunting the better hunters the calves will become. They can only do this foraging technique when people are not in the way so thankyou to everyone for remaining out of the water and staying at least 50m away if in the water. If you look closely in the video you’ll see Jindi trying to break up a fish in the background while mum Kiya chases a fish in the foreground.

10.01.2022 Have you downloaded the Recfishwest app yet? As well as having all of the legal fish bag and size limits it also has a very handy map of the marine park. Click on each zone to see what you are allowed to do! It also follows you, if you have your location services on, so you know when you are entering special purpose zones such as the Monkey Mia recreation zone

10.01.2022 How awesome is this! The Perth dolphins (which are the same species as the Monkey Mia dolphins) use the rock walls to catch their fish . You can even see the little calf in the background of the video which will pick up this technique from its mum

10.01.2022 Sonic is 10. 11 dolphins have come to the party

10.01.2022 We are still seeking volunteers to help us with the morning dolphin experiences. Are you free any four mornings between the 8th of August and the end of September? We would love to hear from you! Email [email protected] now :)

08.01.2022 Guess who came in this morning on her birthday and caught two fish in the shallows! Happy Birthday Flute

07.01.2022 One of our newest editions - Rubix a calf to an occasional beach dolphin Rhombus. Isn’t he/she just the cutest! Simonetta de Robertis

06.01.2022 Piccolo and Pan during the 2nd dolphin experience on World Kindness Day.

06.01.2022 What a beautiful morning with playful 18 month old Jindi and a curious pelican coming in nice and shallow! You can meet Jindi under staff supervision during morning dolphin experiences. Best to arrive at 7:45am so you don’t miss out!

05.01.2022 Welcome to our backyard! Check out the feature by Australia's Coral Coast which showcases the incredible beauty of Monkey Mia and all its inhabitants!

05.01.2022 State legislation has changed to further protect our precious wildlife. Please ensure you are familiar with the below if planning a visit to Monkey Mia/Shark Bay. The dolphins will thank you!

04.01.2022 When a dolphin child meets a human child you can’t help but smile! Jindi met this little girl at the dolphin experience last week. How lucky are we that the mother dolphins bring their calves in to meet everyone even when they are at such a young age! Jindi is only 20 months old but mum Kiya trusts us not to approach or touch her & we are rewarded with experiences such as this. We look forward to introducing you to the dolphins on your next visit.

03.01.2022 Get up close to Monkey Mia’s wild bottlenose dolphins that visit the shore every morning. There is designated parking, unisex accessible toilets and sealed path...s throughout the site. The beach is accessible on a ramp and you can even borrow a beach wheelchair for free from the visitor centre. There are so many more parks and places to visit that have been designed to be accessible. To find out more visit https://exploreparks.dbca.wa.gov.au/know/access-nature International Day of People with Disability - Australia #disablestereotypes

03.01.2022 Keep up with all of the latest Return to 1616 news on Dirk Hartog Island National Park with the Wirruwana Newsletter. Spring edition is out now!

02.01.2022 Dolphin Experiences The dolphin experiences are still running with a maximum number of people allowed. Up to 200 visitors can join in on the beach. To be able to join you must show staff your entry permit - either a hard copy or a photograph is acceptable. You will then be given a token to join in. There can be up to 3 dolphin experiences a day, but there are no set times! The earliest we can begin is 7:45am and the latest is just before 12pm. All visitors are reminded to practice social distancing on the reserve and specific cones are laid out on the beach during the dolphin experiences. Any questions please don’t hesitate to call us on 99481366 or speak to us on the beach! Happy holidays from Kiya and Piccolo.

02.01.2022 Happy Birthday Sonic Another regular dolphin is approaching maturity and will be 10 years old today. Sonic is the youngest daughter of the late Surprise. Her dorsal fin is extremely unique and healed that way after a shark bite to the tip of her fin. She can be seen regularly foraging along the seagrass banks or in the shallows with the other beach dolphins.

01.01.2022 WHO AM I? I am pictured here in front of one of my female relatives, Flute. I am a juvenile female dolphin and two very close relatives of mine visit the beach every day. I grew up visiting the beach most days, but have ventured out on my own to make new friends in the bay. When I do visit the shallows I can often be seen socializing with the young calves. I have a very triangular shaped fin like my mother. My name means 'salt water' in the local Malgana language. It is my birthday TODAY! Comment below if you know my name :)