Facilities & Accessibility Guide

The Dolphin Discovery Centre is an essential stop for any visitor to the Southwest Region. The centre has a multitude of facilities that will ensure that your visit is both effortless and enjoyable including beautiful ocean views. It is of utmost importance to us to make the Centre and its facilities as accessible as possible. Please find our Accessibility Guide below.

• Free wild dolphin Interaction Zone (beach front, licensed by Parks and Wildlife Service WA)
• Marine Discovery & Interpretive Centre (payable, indoor)
• Beachside Cafe & Kiosk
• Dolphin and Bay Viewing platforms
• Dolphin Observation Station with Monoculars and Binoculars free of charge
• Tour Desk for Dolphin and Whales Tours and other Tourist Attractions in the Southwest
• Gift & Souvenir store
• Multilingual Guide System (free on your own device)
• Artificial Reef Seeding Project
• Port Viewing Platform
• Free parking
• Public toilets, hot and cold showers, changing rooms
• Disability access throughout the building, including beach access (please note for our boat tours there is one step to take to get from the beach onto the boat platform, approx. 30cm)
• Beach wheelchairs available (please provide your own carer or assistance to use these wheelchairs)
• Free coach, caravan and campervan parking
• Bike racks
• Fresh drinking water
• Grassed area
• Beach and promenade access
• Function & Conference Centre
• Public Titanic Themed Playground next door
• Mangrove Tower Lookout and Boardwalk opposite

Accessibility Guide Sustainable Tourism, please click here for full details

+ Designated Car Parking with flattened accessibility points
+ Even wide Floors and Pavers throughout the premises and all facilities
+ Automatic Doors
+ Designated accessibility bathrooms on both floors with automated wide doors, toilet. On the ground floor these are also changing room, hot showers all accessible with wheelchair
+ Two lifts inside the building making all floors barrier free
+ Marine Discovery Centre: Wheelchair accessible with automatic wide doors, no barrier floorspace, all attractions wheelchair accessible, Wall Displays in large fonts reader friendly
+ Boardwalk with ramp
+ Dolphin Beach Interaction Zone accessible via ramp
+ Beach mats for close access to the water’s edge and the Interaction Zone (please note these are removed during the colder winter period due to rising surge).
+ Beach and In-Water Wheelchairs available for use
+ Boat Access Point with ramp and Tour Vessels with space for wheelchair (please note there is a 20-30 cm step onto the vessel platform from the beach).
+ Multilingual Web Based Guide System (free on your own device)