After doing the Karijini walk in 2008, part of the group spent a few days in Cape Range National Park, then headed back to Karatha to fly home, calling in briefly at Dampier to check out the Burrup Peninsula.

The park offers basic beachside camping at several sites along the main access road, and the numbers are limited by a first-come-first-served system that operates at the park entrance gate each morning. Ningaloo Reef runs from Coral Bay up to the tip of North West Cape, and there are places along the park's coastline where fragments of the reef are just a few metres off shore.