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Righto, ten weeks is long enough at home – especially in winter. Time to get back to the Kimberley and some warmth; this time on land in the dry season rather than along the coast at the end of the wet season as recently done (A Kimberley coast crawl).
Tomorrow it’s on the bird PER-BME to overnight before joining an Outback Spirit tour for two weeks. Outback Spirit operate several itineraries in the Kimberley. The one I chose is ‘Jewels of the Kimberley and Faraway Bay’.
I first did an Outback Spirit trip solo to Faraway Bay in 2019: (Kimberley Wet aerial safari) and PJM and I have done several others since: (Adventure across Arnhem Land, Target: The Red Centre, I’ll give you the tip – at Cape York). We have always enjoyed them.
This time, my brother and SIL, and another couple are joining in for their first experience of Outback Spirit.
The first day of the trip is activities around Broome – flying by floatplane to Horizontal Falls and driving up the Dampier Peninsula to visit the beagle Bay ‘Mother of Pearl’ church and the pearl farm at Cygnet Bay. We’ve previously been to Cygnet Bay, which I think is an excellent outing if at Broome (A longer brush with Broome). That visit and an earlier one I did solo (Brushing Broome to points further N) were both during covid and the Beagle Bay TO community was closed which thwarted my desire to see the Mother of Pearl church, so I’m glad the tour includes that.
Then it’s up to Derby and out on the western end of the Gibb River Road to Tunnel Creek, deviating to Fitzroy Crossing, the Bungle Bungle, Wyndham, Kununurra, Lake Argyle, then rejoining the Gibb River Road at its eastern end to head towards Emma Gorge Resort at El Questro and then further west before turning onto the Kalumburu Road to Drysdale River Station and then on to Mitchell Falls. From Mitchell Falls we fly in Outback Spirit’s own Cessna Grand Caravan to Faraway Bay. The tour finishes after flying to DRW in the same bird.
I was particularly keen to choose a tour that included Mitchell Falls and Faraway Bay as PJM had been to neither, the former being a Kimberley icon and the latter being a cool experience in a very isolated location accessible only by air or by boat.
As usual, the TR will be completed upon return.
Tomorrow it’s on the bird PER-BME to overnight before joining an Outback Spirit tour for two weeks. Outback Spirit operate several itineraries in the Kimberley. The one I chose is ‘Jewels of the Kimberley and Faraway Bay’.
I first did an Outback Spirit trip solo to Faraway Bay in 2019: (Kimberley Wet aerial safari) and PJM and I have done several others since: (Adventure across Arnhem Land, Target: The Red Centre, I’ll give you the tip – at Cape York). We have always enjoyed them.
This time, my brother and SIL, and another couple are joining in for their first experience of Outback Spirit.
The first day of the trip is activities around Broome – flying by floatplane to Horizontal Falls and driving up the Dampier Peninsula to visit the beagle Bay ‘Mother of Pearl’ church and the pearl farm at Cygnet Bay. We’ve previously been to Cygnet Bay, which I think is an excellent outing if at Broome (A longer brush with Broome). That visit and an earlier one I did solo (Brushing Broome to points further N) were both during covid and the Beagle Bay TO community was closed which thwarted my desire to see the Mother of Pearl church, so I’m glad the tour includes that.
Then it’s up to Derby and out on the western end of the Gibb River Road to Tunnel Creek, deviating to Fitzroy Crossing, the Bungle Bungle, Wyndham, Kununurra, Lake Argyle, then rejoining the Gibb River Road at its eastern end to head towards Emma Gorge Resort at El Questro and then further west before turning onto the Kalumburu Road to Drysdale River Station and then on to Mitchell Falls. From Mitchell Falls we fly in Outback Spirit’s own Cessna Grand Caravan to Faraway Bay. The tour finishes after flying to DRW in the same bird.
I was particularly keen to choose a tour that included Mitchell Falls and Faraway Bay as PJM had been to neither, the former being a Kimberley icon and the latter being a cool experience in a very isolated location accessible only by air or by boat.
As usual, the TR will be completed upon return.
