Kimberley Trip

[TPC]

Sounds like you enjoyed the peninsular. Shame about Bully’s, I’m surprised Jeff even has a phone there even though you couldn’t get him on it! Just driving into the campground would probably have been the way to go. Kooljaman wanted to charge us to have a look too, we just wanted to check out if we wanted to stay there or not. Their attitude didn’t impress us & we just turned around & left. Although aboriginal owned the place is run by a ‘management company’ which rarely, in my experience, keeps the integrity of a place, it becomes only a money making exercise. Glad you enjoyed Whalesong. A friend helped Jacinta (& Lenny) build the shower facilities. Do they still have the camels & the vegie garden? I expect it is the same dog who ‘adopted’ us when we were there .. ‘Jimbo’. He slept on a chair immediately outside our tent every night & waited until we were up before leaving each morning, joining us again later for walks on the beach. It was like he was looking after us.





Same dog 5 years younger???

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That is the same dog, he moves fairly slow as he is getting old but livened up when down the beach or when there was food on offer.
The camels have gone but the vegie garden is still there.
We stayed in 22 different locations on our trip and this was one of my favourite's, I was originally going to stay at Middle Lagoon but glad I didn't as it was very busy there.

[jack]

Great report TPC, thanks for sharing and love the pics.

[Cuppa]

We stayed in 22 different locations on our trip

Does that mean you’re back home now?

[TPC]

Does that mean you’re back home now?

Got back Monday.

[Sherro]

Great write up TPC can't wait to have a look out that way my self.

[Woof]

OK your back, now get going again so we can join you through the trip reports.....lol
Thanks heaps for this mate, I have learnt a lot and enjoyed your trip with you.

[Cuppa]

Can we expect another ‘episode’ or two to cover Whalesong to home?

[TPC]

Can we expect another ‘episode’ or two to cover Whalesong to home?

Yea I am working on it, selecting photos now and it takes me a long time to type with two fingers.

[TPC]

Day 34, Horizontal Falls.

After our failed attempt to visit Horizontal Falls 2 weeks prior we rescheduled and got perfect weather for it this time.
We boarded a seaplane in Derby and flew to lake Talbot where we were spending the night on a house boat, the view from the plane was spectacular, flying over countless islands and inlets, I scored the co-pilot seat but he would not let me fly.
Once on the houseboat we were introduced to the staff and shown our rooms and then onto a fast boat to look at the falls, the boat had 3 x 300hp motors and it needed them, the driver took us up to the mouth of the falls and gave us a good look at them and explained they were too rough to take the boat through at that time so we then went for a cruise to look at other sights.
We returned to the falls 30min later and went charging through, at this stage we were very glad the boat had so much power as the water is swirling and there are jagged rocks on both sides, he then spun around and went through the other direction and the boat got a bit of air before crashing down, most of us loved this but my mates wife was not impressed. We did this a few times and he then let the falls slowly take the boat backwards half way in and kept enough throttle to keep stationery so we could get a good look.
After this we were back to the house boat and I took a ride over the falls in a helicopter, this was brilliant as he flew real low.
Next up was swimming in a shark proof cage and feed the sharks for those that wanted to they were "Blind Sharks" and fairly, I jumped at this and put on goggles and got to see them up real close. There were plenty of fish around and I wished I had a rod.
They served up a great Barramundi dinner and we relaxed with a few drinks for the evening.
The next morning after breakfast we went out on the boat to go through the falls again then we boarded the plane to fly back to Derby.

This was by far the most expensive part of the trip but it was worth it, the staff are great and the whole thing is run very professionally.

Some shots from the air.
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From the Boat
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Some from the Houseboat, where is my fishing rod.
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[MEGOMONSTER]

Awesome read and pics. Till the next episode. Lol