Profile
Blog
Photos
Videos
I get wife of the year award today. The kids and I stayed at the campground and did 3 loads of washing (basically everything we own) and a shopping trip to the supermarket while Geoff went on a fantastic adventure. I'll hand over to him to talk about it ........
Well how do I start!
It certainly was an amazing trip, it started with a sea plane flight from Derby airport out to the horizontal waterfalls as David Attenborough has coined them. Basically because of the extreme tides up here the water rushing in between the 2 narrow inlets creates massive rapids which looks like a waterfall except its horizontal. We landed in Talbot bay at their pontoon base and were welcomed by about half a dozen sharks cruising around the pontoon waiting to be feed. Next was a quick trip backwards and forwards across both of the falls on a speed boat. As we are nearing the full moon the tides are getting larger and they needed to time the runs to not get caught. The volume and velocity of the water is incredible. At maximum tide there can be a 5m height differential on either side of the falls.
Back on board the pontoon we swam in the shark cage and watched the guides hand feeding the sharks including trying to lure a bull shark with a fish head tied to the end of a rope. I had a tussle with one of the reef sharks but the bull sharks weren't playing game today. More trips on their boats up cyclone creek and a barramundi BBQ lunch followed by another look at the falls in full flow finished this awesome day trip. On the flight home I got to be co pilot as we cruised at 700m above the Buccaneer Archipelago for 45 min back to Derby. Taking off on water and landing on land in the same plane is a rather strange experience.
Back at camp the kids and Kate were hot and bored so We went for a drive on the mud flats and then we watched the sun set over the Derby jetty. All in all a damn fine day.
- comments
MIKE HI GUYS, I ENJOYED READING OF YOUR ADVENTURES TONIGHT, AFTER SPENDING THE EVENING SEARCHING EBAY FOR INVERTERS, FRIDGES ETC. I DON'T THINK WE'LL BE DOING AS MUCH SWIMMING AS YOU BUT WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO THE TRIP NONETHELESS. OUR BUILDER STARTS IN TWO WEEKS WHICH IS SUPER EXCITING. TRAVEL SAFE. THE NELLIES