Boutique Cruises
HIDDEN BAYS ADVENTURE Cruise 8nights/9days - Dates & Prices
DETAILED ITINERARY
Ideal for Kimberley adventurers to combine with a land based tour or for those travellers with limited time. A relaxing cruise but with many activities – less time travelling and more time to explore and experience the diversity offered by this part of the Kimberley. Spend your days, cruising, exploring, fishing, oystering, mucrabbing, walking on deserted beaches and reefs and swimming in freshwater pools and rainforests. During the evening, enjoy your day's catch and relax with a fine wine and good company with the stars and moon as a backdrop.
Fly by seaplane from Derby or Broome to land at the Horizontal Waterfalls for a tour of this massive tidal flow. From there we visit all our wonderful hidden bays and delights exploring Talbot Bay, Yampi Sound, Strickland Bay and King Sound with our special crab, oyster and fishing spots galore, before disembarking from the Derby wharf with an optional flight to return to Broome.
| Day 1 | An early departure from Broome or Derby for a scenic flight over the aquamarine waters of the Buccaneer Archipelago to arrive at the Horizontal Waterfalls. After a tour, board 'Red Sky at Night’ for a warm welcome and breakfast. A short cruise to a forgotten corner of Talbot Bay to our secret reef waterfall, exposing as the tide recedes, tiered cascades tumbling into a clear pool. View sharks, trevally, tropical fish, coral, clams, turtles and lots more. A spot of fishing before returning to 'Red Sky' for our complimentary ‘Mango Daiquiris’ and our first dinner aboard. |
| Day 2 | Cruise to a hidden inland sea for a day of exploring with gorges, one home to a large crocodile, another with waterfall and short climb to a pool and rainforest. Fishing at a very interesting rock bar to catch dinner before returning to Red Sky. Visit our bridal waterfalls and overnight with our favourite croc 'Ernie' |
| Day 3 | Travel with the whirlpools towards our own special rainforest with its warm pool under a canopy of leaves and a waterfall. A short cruise to anchor in the lee of spectacular sandstone cliffs. Throw in a line to supply the galley for dinner. |
| Day 4 | Photo opportunities with the morning sun on the cliffs mirrored in the waterways. Early fishing before a short cruise to anchor at the mouth of a small creek - a certainty for mud crabs. Just before the turn of the tide, we head north with whirlpools and tide skirted islands. Maybe a whale or dolphin sighting before cruising past Koolan Island with its scarred mine face and on to Yampi Sound to anchor in a sheltered creek. |
| Day 5 | Visit an interesting bay with beaches and unbelievable rock gyrations, for oysters, before cruising to Crocodile Creek for a refreshing swim in a clear stream feeding a waterfall, fringed with Pandanus palms. Race with the swirling tide to a pure white silica beach for a walk through the snow like sand after a delicious Lunch. Cruise through the Buccaneer Archipelago whilst relaxing on deck after the day’s exertions. Travel into a forgotten bay in time to anchor for the sunset. |
| Day 6 | A scenic cruise through Whirlpool Pass and into Strickland Bay. Experience the immense tidal flow on the way to ‘The Graveyards’ so named because of the loss of pearl divers in the 1890’s. Mudcrabbing crocodile spotting before a very secluded anchorage |
| Day 7 | Visit a fascinating island with historic diver’s graves and majestic rock formations - thousands of hermit crabs staking claim to the rocks and beach, flowering native plants, striking views of the islands and waterway. A short cruise to anchor at the mouth of a mangrove creek and then a tender ride for a bushwalk to discover waterfalls with refreshing swimming and stunning scenery. |
| Day 8 | Early departure to travel with the incoming tide through tidal whirlpools to explore beaches and islands and make our way into a hidden sea. Explorations galore and our last anchorage and dinner aboard. |
| Day 9 | Travel through King Sound with the fast incoming tide for the final leg of the cruise to Derby. Our sad farewells as you disembark at the Derby Jetty for your optional transfer to Broome. |
Getting back to nature has never been this civilised
