14 April 2009 Horizontal Water Falls. WOW, OMG, James (our boss) is letting us go on the seaplane to Horizontal Water Falls as day-trippers for free............ Thanks so much James, Horries is something so spectacular I have been trying to get there since we got to the Kimberleys ........... and it is incredible, awesome, wild and wonderful ........ words cannot really describe and my pics aren't that good but here goes ..... Just so you know some stuff: DB and I got picked up from the bush airstrip at Cygnet Bay by the Seaplane with my mate Mike at the stick, then we flew east over the 1000's of islands of the Bucanneer Archipelago and landed the seaplane in Talbot Bay. Then they dinghyed us over to their catamaran which stays anchored there for the season and we had a scrummy barramundi lunch on board. Next they loaded us into this long skinny speed boat thingy and we headed up to the waterfalls. Our speedboat skipper known as "G" took us up the falls and we sat stationery in the falls with both motors holding us steady in the rushing falls. Then we motored to the next falls and the same again and then up and down those falls heaps of times at break-neck speed until we flopped over in excited exhaustion and headed back to the catamaran, then onto the seaplane and back to Cygnet Bay. All in all its about a $700.00 trip each. What a fab day. Unreal. Awesome.




So here is the tourism blerb if your interest holds:






"The waterfall phenomena has been described by David Attenborough as öne of the greatest natural wonders of the world".






One of the most amazing natural features of the Kimberley region is the tidal waterfalls located deep within Talbot Bay in the Buccaneer Archipelago, but unlike any other waterfall, the water passes horizontally. Although they are called waterfall, this natural phenomenon actually consists of intense tidal current hurtling through two narrow coastal gorges. Massive tidal movements creat a waterfall effect as water banks up against one side of the narrow cliff passage, to be repeated again on the turning tide. The twin gaps are part of the McLarty Ranges, which have two ridges running parallel approximately 300 metres apart. The first and most seaward gap is about 20 metres wide and the second, most spectacular gap is about 10 metres wide.
It is possible to drive boats through the two gaps to the bay behind. The tides have a 10 metre variation which occurs overs the 6 hourly tide changes. The effect of the waterfalls is created by the tide building up in front of the gaps faster than it can flow through them and there then can be a 4 metre high waterfall between the bays."







































































14 April 2010 - runway approach and 4:50 pm and we are home again at Cygnet Bay. Wow what a day.