Reed All About It: Horizontal Falls?

On the Friday we were in Broome we had planned to leave on a road trip tour to the Windjana Gorge. Being the end of the rainy season, the road was closed, which left a day free without plans. After doing our research, we decided on a plane trip to the Horizontal Falls. It was quite pricey, and we weren't sure it would be worth the cost, but decided we'd give it a go anyways. Boy are we glad we did!

You may be wondering "Just what are the Horizontal Falls?".
Nobody explains it better than Sir David Attenborough:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ9kdhVJT0U

So we got up before the sun, arrived at the airport for our safety briefing, and boarded a sea-plane for a truly memorable trip.

The flight north to the falls was unremarkable until we crossed over the main body of the Dampier Peninsula, across King Sound into the area of the falls.

We dropped down low, turned the corner, and there they were.

After a few passes by the falls for photo ops, we dropped down into Talbot bay and landed near our base camp for the day... a floating barge/houseboat.

We hopped off the plane and were greeted with a fresh cooked breakfast, fed the local sharks, and the kids even jumped in the water with the sharks. (Of course the kids were in a cage!)

We then boarded a speed-boat to take a close up look at the falls. We rode up to the falls and then plunged through each one several times. The water flow through the narrow gaps is massive, and it was a bit harrowing speeding through in a boat, but it really was great fun.

Then it was back to base-camp where we loaded into the plane and headed back to Broome.
This time we flew low and skirted the coast for some amazing aerial views of the Buccaneer archipelago, Cape Leveque, Willie Creek and the pearl farm, and finally on into Broome.