Horizontal Falls Overnight Trip

Awesome day/night - Horizontal falls. Warning - Severe jelously resulting for readers!!!

Fly in the float plane (with Nathan as 'co-pilot' this time) over Derby and mud flats to Talbot Bay, then watch the (tawny nurse) sharks from the shark tank or pontoon. (They hang around well into the night) Next a twilight tour of the nearby creek/bay area, including a quick trip through the 2 horizontal falls. One is wider than the other. The evening had only about 0.5m drop through the narrow falls, still pretty spectacular.

Our floatplane - another Cessna Caravan

Co-pilot Nathan

Mudflats near Derby

Horizontal Falls aerial view

Horizontal Falls aerial view - narrow gap

Tawny Nurse Sharks being fed

Tawny Nurse Sharks hanging around houseboat

Hang around on our 6 week old house boat drinking some beverages, whilst our barra is BBQ'ed and the sun sets.

Our houseboat for the night

Curvey rock layers

Horizontal Falls - narrow gap at evening low tide

Horizontal Falls - narrow gap at evening low tide

Talbot Bay sunset view

Talbot Bay sunset view over pontoons

Up early enough to see the sunrise from your room or the upper deck.

Talbot Bay sunrise

Then the main event - speed boat through a 2m tide at the falls - twice! The boat doesn't have 'seats', you straddle a padded seat and hold on to the purpose bars in front! Photos aren't going to illustrate this adrenelin ride. We couldn't even take a decent video of it from the speed and boat movement (not to mention Nathan's second shower). 50m deep channel through a narrowing just wider than the boat, draining a whole bay, with strong currents and eddies- AWESOME.


Speedboat self portrait

Horizontal Falls - narrow gap from distance

Horizontal Falls - narrow gap looking downstream

Horizontal Falls - narrow gap side view

Horizontal Falls - narrow gap other side view

Horizontal Falls - narrow gap looking upstream

Then we had to leave, back on the sea plane over the Buccaneer Archipelago islands and barramundi farm to Derby. Where yet again Alison was 'co-pilot'.

Return flight view

Return flight view

Return flight view

Return flight view

Return flight - co-pilot Alison