If the luxury of time is short during your Broome holiday, a new day cruise provides immersive access to the remote Kimberley coastline and pristine Horizontal Falls
Lush emerald and lime-hued vegetation, rust-red earth, cloudless skies, and champagne sands falling into the turquoise sea water soak my soul. This is Australia’s northwest coast, resembling an artist’s kaleidoscopic palette.
The colours mesmerise, taking over every human sense. Nature’s picturesque scenes excite and delight at every turn.
“Every day is a surprise,” says Harley Cuzens, skipper of the luxurious 84-foot cruise vessel Ohana. “It’s what makes our cruises different. We never know what nature is going to deliver. But we can guarantee it will be spectacular and special.”
He’s not wrong. Everyone onboard Kimberley Day Cruises’ Ohana is equally impressed with their one-day cruise to Horizontal Falls that Australian tourism multi-award-winner Dr Sally Shaw and Kimberley-based Harley spent several years curating.
“While many people don’t have the luxury of a week or more to cruise the Kimberley coastline, they can usually fit in a day,” says Harley.
If you’re staying in Broome, it’s a long day — 14 hours —but, it’s well worth the 5:00 am pick-up, two-hour air-conditioned all-terrain vehicle transfer, and ensuing sunrise up the Dampier Peninsula-Cape Leveque Road to Cygnet Bay, where Ohana is moored.
Our transfer to Ohana is via a tender boat with sea legs — wheels that drive it onto the beach for easy loading and unloading — ensuring your feet won’t get wet.