The south coast bay that delivers blue whales, sperm whales, and acrobatic spinner dolphin pods in the waters between November and April – making it one of the world’s most reliable marine wildlife destinations – and then settles into a beautifully relaxed beach town mode for the rest of the season. Mirissa is small, genuinely beautiful, and the kind of place whose horseshoe bay and Coconut Tree Hill headland create a setting that travellers find difficult to leave ahead of schedule.
