Cruise Day 3 Horizontal Falls

 This was the day to go to the Horizontal Falls. I just took photos of the entrance because I didn’t want to get the camera wet, but should have taken it anyway  - we didn’t get wet. Had to transfer to their special boat - like a jetboat but bigger and he didn’t quite do 360s. 



I was wondering why Kimberleys had 9 metre tides. It has to do with the extent of the continental shelf around the north of Australia. On our east coast the shelf is only small, but up north it extends for 400 kms, so as the tide rises it has all those kms to increase in height before it hits land. New fact for me!

So the Horizontal Falls occur because the tide comes in through very narrow cliff walls and a bank of water builds up and can’t go through the gap all at once. We went through the smaller falls, but no one is allowed to go through the big ones anymore-it’s only a 7 metre gap and the boat is 4 metres wide and clipped the edge one time. Besides which the Aboriginal people have claimed scared territory.



Another shark at night and another Kimberley sunset!Actually not true - this was a Kimberley sunrise!,,

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