Australian Traveller

Falling fast

I’VE NEVER BEEN IN A SEAPLANE BEFORE. Watching our pilot from my spot on this 17-seater aircraft as she fiddles with dials and knobs I don’t understand is almost as much of a thrill as the red dirt vistas of the Buccaneer Archipelago outside my window.

But that red dirt then gives way to water so blue it’s like someone has spilt food dye – all surrounded by that iconic red, white and green of the land here in WA’s Kimberley region – and I forget about the pilot.

We’ve made it to Horizontal Falls, so named by Sir David Attenborough himself, who described them as

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