06DerbyHorFalls19.jpg=Talbot Bay, Western Australia. Next morning our final ride to the Falls.
DSC_0224.JPG=Talbot Bay, Western Australia. Our overnight stay at the 'Horizontal Hotel' in the evening. (panorama)
DSC_0099.JPG=Flying from Derby, Western Australia. Bushfires on the peninsula - probably controlled burning.
06DerbyHorFalls24.jpg=Talbot Bay, Western Australia. Next morning seaplanes start to arrive with new tour groups.
DSC_0125.JPG=Flying from Derby, Western Australia. Landing on Talbot Bay.
DSC_0082.JPG=A Royal Flying Doctor (RFDS) plane leaving from Derby, Western Australia.
DSC_0121.JPG=Flying from Derby, Western Australia. Landing approach to Talbot Bay.
06DerbyPan04.JPG=Talbot Bay, Western Australia. Talbot Bay near sunset. (panorama)
DSC_0141.JPG=Talbot Bay, Western Australia. Horizontal Falls narrow gap - the difference in water level between the two bays becomes more obvious.
DSC_0293.JPG=King Sound, Western Australia. Flying over King Sound on our return to Derby Airport.
DSC_0322.JPG=Derby, Western Australia. A Boab nursery beside the Derby airport.
06DerbyPan12.JPG=Talbot Bay, Western Australia. Horizontal Falls tour pontoons. (panorama)
DSC_0319.JPG=Derby, Western Australia. Our following shadow on landing at Derby airport.
06DerbyHorFalls14.jpg=Flying from Derby, Western Australia. Our first glimpses of the Horizontal Falls and Talbot Bay.
DSC_0194.JPG=Talbot Bay, Western Australia. Talbot Bay near sunset.
DSC_0166.JPG=Talbot Bay, Western Australia. Cyclone Creek rock formations.
DSC_0225.JPG=Talbot Bay, Western Australia. Next morning ready for a last ride to the Falls.
DSC_0219.JPG=Talbot Bay, Western Australia. One of the Horizontal Falls tour boats - with three 225hp outboards.
DSC_0227.JPG=Talbot Bay, Western Australia. Next morning our final ride to the Falls.
DSC_0086.JPG=Leaving from Derby, Western Australia. Looking down at the salt flats - these aren't crop circles, just tyre tracks from some of the locals having a bit of fun.
DSC_0307.JPG=King Sound, Western Australia. A good aerial view of the Derby Jetty.
DSC_0113.JPG=Flying from Derby, Western Australia. Our first glimpses of the Horizontal Falls and Talbot Bay in the foreground.
DSC_0123.JPG=McLarty Ranges, parallel ridges. Flying from Derby, Western Australia. McLarty Ranges, parallel ridges on our landing approach to Talbot Bay.
DSC_0171.JPG=Talbot Bay, Western Australia. Back to the narrow gap to experience the 'falls' close up.
DSC_0149.JPG=Talbot Bay, Western Australia. Back through Talbot Bay toward Cyclone Creek.
06DerbyHorFalls17.jpg=Talbot Bay, Western Australia. Shark viewing cage at the 'Horizontal Hotel'.
DSC_0218.JPG=Talbot Bay, Western Australia. Next morning ready for a last ride to the Falls.
DSC_0107.JPG=Flying from Derby, Western Australia. Ridges of the McLarty Ranges.
06DerbyPan13.JPG=Talbot Bay, Western Australia. Our overnight stay at the 'Horizontal Hotel' in the evening. (panorama)
06DerbyHorFalls22.jpg=Talbot Bay, Western Australia. Next morning seaplanes start to arrive with new tour groups.
DSC_0216CROP.jpg=Talbot Bay, Western Australia. Shark viewing cage at the 'Horizontal Hotel'.
DSC_0147.JPG=Talbot Bay, Western Australia. Back through Talbot Bay toward Cyclone Creek to kill about 30 minutes for the tidal flow to slow a little.
DSC_0262.JPG=Talbot Bay, Western Australia. Flying over the Buccaneer Archipeligo on our return to Derby Airport.
DSC_0108.JPG=Flying from Derby, Western Australia. Ridges of the McLarty Ranges and Talbot Bay.
DSC_0221.JPG=Talbot Bay, Western Australia. One of the Horizontal Falls tour boats.
DSC_0274.JPG=Talbot Bay, Western Australia. Flying over the Buccaneer Archipeligo and McLarty Ranges on our return to Derby Airport.
Joys.jpg=Talbot Bay, Western Australia. Shark/Groper viewing cage at the 'Horizontal Hotel'.
06DerbyHorFalls16.jpg=Talbot Bay, Western Australia. Cyclone Creek and the tour operators first pontoon.
DSC_0287.JPG=King Sound, Western Australia. Flying over the Buccaneer Archipeligo on our return to Derby Airport.
DSC_0295.JPG=King Sound, Western Australia. Flying over King Sound on our return to Derby Airport.
DSC_0085.JPG=Leaving from Derby, Western Australia. The highway into Derby.
DSC_0177.JPG=Talbot Bay, Western Australia. Back to the narrow gap to experience the 'falls' close up when the levels had settled to a safer level.
DSC_0285.JPG=Talbot Bay, Western Australia. Barramundi farming in the Buccaneer Archipeligo.
06DerbyHorFalls15.jpg=Talbot Bay, Western Australia. Horizontal Falls narrow gap - the difference in water level between the two bays becomes more obvious.
06DerbyHorFalls25.jpg=King Sound, Western Australia. A good aerial view of the Derby and the jetty.
06DerbyPan06.JPG=Talbot Bay, Western Australia. A couple of yachtie travellers moored in the evening at Talbot Bay. (panorama)
06DerbyHorFalls26.jpg=Talbot Bay, Western Australia. Flying over the Buccaneer Archipeligo and McLarty Ranges on our return to Derby Airport.
DSC_0132.JPG=Flying from Derby, Western Australia. Second plane landing on Talbot Bay.
DSC_0097.JPG=Leaving from Derby, Western Australia. Flying over King Sound.
06DerbyHorFalls13.jpg=Flying from Derby, Western Australia. Ridges of the McLarty Ranges and Talbot Bay.
DSC_0283.JPG=Talbot Bay, Western Australia. Barramundi farming in the Buccaneer Archipeligo.
DSC_0156.JPG=Talbot Bay, Western Australia. Cyclone Creek and the tour operators first pontoon.
DSC_0169.JPG=Talbot Bay, Western Australia. Cyclone Creek (face) rock formations.
DSC_0249.JPG=Talbot Bay, Western Australia. Next morning ready for take off from the water and return to Derby Airport.
DSC_0129.JPG=Flying from Derby, Western Australia. Landing on Talbot Bay.
NASAimage.png=From Derby, Western Australia. NASA satellite image of Talbot Bay and the two gaps that form the Horizontal Falls (on an incoming tide)
06DerbyHorFalls20.jpg=Talbot Bay, Western Australia. Next morning our final ride to the Falls.
06DerbyPan03.JPG=Talbot Bay, Western Australia. Back to the narrow gap to experience the 'falls' close up when the levels had settled to a safer level. (panorama)
06DerbyHorFalls11.jpg=Leaving from Derby, Western Australia. Two seaplanes make the trip.
DSC_0178.JPG=Talbot Bay, Western Australia. Back to the narrow gap to experience the 'falls' close up when the levels had settled to a safer level.
06DerbyPan10.JPG=Talbot Bay, Western Australia. Talbot Bay near sunset. (panorama)
06DerbyHorFalls12.jpg=Leaving from Derby, Western Australia. Looking down at some of the salt flats with their web of creeks and streams.
DSC_0098.JPG=Leaving from Derby, Western Australia. Bushfires on the peninsula - probably controlled burning.
DSC_0140.JPG=Talbot Bay, Western Australia. Horizontal Falls narrow gap.
06DerbyPan07b.JPG=Talbot Bay, Western Australia. Talbot Bay near sunset. (panorama)
DSC_0124.JPG=Flying from Derby, Western Australia. Ridges of the McLarty Ranges and Talbot Bay.
DSC_0161.JPG=Talbot Bay, Western Australia. Cyclone Creek.
DSC_0134.JPG=Talbot Bay, Western Australia. Our first sight of the Horizontal Falls at water level.
DSC_0160.JPG=Talbot Bay, Western Australia. Cyclone Creek.
DSC_0101.JPG=Flying from Derby, Western Australia. Bushfires on the peninsula - probably controlled burning.
tn_DSC_0001arrowed.jpg=From Derby, Western Australia. Our approximate flight path to Talbot Bay
DSC_0088.JPG=Leaving from Derby, Western Australia. Looking down at some of the salt flats.
DSC_0281.JPG=Talbot Bay, Western Australia. Flying over the Buccaneer Archipeligo and McLarty Ranges on our return to Derby Airport.
DSC_0174.JPG=Talbot Bay, Western Australia. Back to the narrow gap to experience the 'falls' close up when the levels had settled to a safer level.
DSC_0116.JPG=Flying from Derby, Western Australia. Our first glimpses of the Horizontal Falls and Talbot Bay in the foreground.
DSC_0131.JPG=Flying from Derby, Western Australia. Second plane landing on Talbot Bay.
06DerbyHorFalls18.jpg=Talbot Bay, Western Australia. Talbot Bay Lemon sharks in artificial light.
DSC_0157.JPG=Talbot Bay, Western Australia. Cyclone Creek.
DSC_0325.JPG=Leaving from Derby, Western Australia.
DSC_0122.JPG=Flying from Derby, Western Australia. Landing approach to Talbot Bay.
