{"id":54875,"date":"2026-08-12T12:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T02:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/luxuryescapes.com\/inspiration\/?p=54875"},"modified":"2026-08-12T12:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T02:53:09","slug":"broome-kimberley-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luxuryescapes.com\/inspiration\/broome-kimberley-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks, Camels & Tidal Wonders: Exploring the Kimberley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From feeding sharks to meeting camels, tasting the incredible flavours of the tropical north and power boating through impossible raging tides, Rebecca Ellwood falls hard for the wild encounters in the Kimberley region.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Growing up in landlocked middle England, swimming with sharks never featured on my bucket list. Yet here I am in the Kimberley<\/a> wilderness, within arm\u2019s reach of snub-nosed tawnys chomping blindly at barramundi chunks on the water\u2019s surface. They\u2019re on one side of the barrier, I\u2019m on the other, keeping my fingers firmly to myself, in a pool-like enclosure on a floating pontoon.<\/p>\n\n\n

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It\u2019s one of many unexpected moments from an overnight stay on Jetwave Pearl<\/em>, the luxe houseboat of Journey Beyond and Horizontal Falls Seaplane Adventures. Reachable only by seaplane, it\u2019s moored on the unfathomably azure waters of Talbot Bay, a stone\u2019s throw from Horizontal Falls \u2013 hailed by a spellbound Sir David Attenborough as \u201cone of the greatest natural wonders of the world\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or \u201cHozzy Falls\u201d, as I hear it affectionately referred to by locals. It is a rare natural phenomenon where competing tidal currents surge through parallel gorges, creating rapids that pass horizontally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier that day, the sheer force of the water is a spectacle to behold, and to feel, as we zip through the ravines aboard a powerboat. Squeals abound as the vessel soars and drops amid the swirling whirlpools, and we\u2019re peppered with saltwater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aboard a private charter on calmer, 30-metre-deep waters, I try my hand at fishing for golden snapper and orange spotted cod, another first for this Midlander. After a day in the great outdoors, we\u2019re treated to local Tenderspot Meat Co<\/a> eye fillet with Caf\u00e9 de Paris butter and rosemary-salted potatoes aboard Jetwave Pearl<\/em>, followed by a deconstructed coconut pavlova, a riff on the Australian staple by the onboard Naples-born chef, Francesco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But perhaps the most outstanding of these experiences is the return seaplane transfer to Derby. Drinking in the sheer vastness of this ancient landscape from above is humbling, and as we make the 30-minute journey, I see it as a living, breathing being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The vast, otherworldly mud flats adjacent to the falls are embroidered with the blooming patterns of creeks and mangroves, branching like veins and capillaries; the cracked rock faces are weathered skin; the red dirt the blood beneath. With headphones on, the ride has a feeling almost like being underwater, with an untapped world, usually observed only by nature itself, unfurling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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