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High Season Kimberley Small-Ship Cruise

12-Night Stay & Small-Ship Expedition Holiday

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What's Included

EXPLORE THE KIMBERLEY ON THIS 12-NIGHT STAY & SMALL-SHIP EXPEDITION VOYAGE.

Thirty five years ago, when Coral Expeditions made the first exploratory cruises in the Kimberley, they had to rely on hand-drawn ‘mudmaps’ and the knowledge of fishermen and early explorers to navigate the vast and unpredictable coastline. Today, with decades of experience, and in-house experts, maps, tidal charts, and landing notes, they have a level of knowledge that cannot be easily replicated. Witness the power of nature at the magnificent King George River and its towering twin falls, explore ancient rock art with expert guides, and witness diverse marine life and cascading waters at Montgomery Reef.

YOUR PACKAGE INLCUDES:

BONUS 1 night 4-star hotel in Broome
⚓ 10-Night small-ship expedition voyage on board Coral Adventurer, from Broome to Darwin
BONUS 1 night 4-star hotel in Darwin
⚓ Post-cruise transfers
⚓ All excursions with the Expedition Team
⚓ Use of Xplorer, Zodiacs and Kayaks
⚓ Daily lectures and briefings with Guest Lecturers
⚓ All meals, chef-prepared on board
⚓ Captain’s welcome and farewell events, and open bridge access
⚓ Selected wines, selected beers and house spirits, juices, and soft drinks served with lunch and dinner
⚓ 24-hour barista-style coffee and tea station
⚓ All entrance fees to National Parks, ports, traditional owner fees and charges imposed by governing authorities, Tips & Gratuities
⚓ Expedition diary, along with a photo and video gallery documenting the highlights of your voyage

PLUS BOOK NOW AND RECEIVE UP TO $2000 BONUS VALUE:

Exclusive Savings up to $1000 per stateroom included
Bonus City Stays in Broome and Darwin

Interested in other departure dates? This cruise departs from April through September from Broome to Darwin and Darwin to Broome. Package is available on most 2025 Coral Geographer and Coral Adventurer sailings from Broome to Darwin or Darwin to Broome. Enquire with a Cruise Travel Advisor today for your preferred departure date.

YOUR ITINERARY

Date
Port
Info
Arrive
Depart
Day 1
18th Jul 2025
Broome

Arrive in Broome where you have 1 night before your exp ...

Arrive in Broome where you have 1 night before your expedition to explore.

Arrive
Depart
Day 2
19th Jul 2025
Broome

Arrive at the Mangrove Hotel at 3:30pm before your t ...

Arrive at the Mangrove Hotel at 3:30pm before your transfer to Broome Deep Water Port for boarding at 4:00pm. Settle into your stateroom before our 5:00pm departure.

Take the time to become acquainted with the facilities onboard before joining the expedition team in the Bridge Deck Lounge for an introduction to the Kimberley. As dusk falls, mingle with fellow travellers, the Captain and crew at Captain’s Welcome Drinks.

Arrive
Depart
Day 3
20th Jul 2025
The Lacepede Islands

The Lacepede Islands are a protected class-A nature ...

The Lacepede Islands are a protected class-A nature reserve and are significant as a seabird nesting rookery for brown boobies and roseate terns. Other species often sighted at the Lacepedes include Australian Pelicans, frigate birds, egrets and gulls. The four low-lying islands are also an important breeding and nesting habitat for green turtles.

If weather and tide conditions are suitable, we will explore the lagoons by Xplorer and Zodiac tender vessels.

As our incredible Kimberley adventures draw to a close, on our last evening aboard we enjoy the Captain’s farewell drinks amongst new-found friends.

Arrive
Depart
Day 4
21st Jul 2025
Horizontal Falls

The Horizontal Falls are one of the Kimberley’s biggest attracti ...

The Horizontal Falls are one of the Kimberley’s biggest attractions and are a result of the mammoth 11m tides the Kimberley is renowned for. Naturalist David Attenborough described the Horizontal Falls as ‘one of the greatest natural wonders of the world.’

This natural phenomenon has been created as the ocean thunders through a narrow gorge in the McLarty Ranges. Water builds up on one side and is forcibly pushed through the bottleneck, creating a rushing horizontal waterfall of swiftly flowing seawater. Riding the rapids on our Zodiac inflatable tenders is one of the highlights of our Kimberley expedition cruises.

Talbot Bay is at the heart of the Buccaneer Archipelago, where rocks on the 800 or so islands are estimated at over 2 billion years old. At Cyclone Creek, you will see evidence of massive geological forces in the impressive rock formations and cruise through the Iron Islands, past Koolan Island, before enjoying sunset drinks at Nares Point.

Arrive
Depart
Day 5
22nd Jul 2025
Doubtful Bay, Ruby Falls at Red Cone Creek

Red Cone Creek flows gently downstream until it meets the ...

Red Cone Creek flows gently downstream until it meets the small but impressive Ruby Falls. Named by local mariner Capt. Chris Trucker after his daughter, Red Cone Creek is carved through rock formations stacked atop each other like building blocks. These rock walls are great for climbing and clambering over before reaching a series of freshwater swimming holes and waterfalls. The falls may be a gurgling torrent or a gentle trickle, depending on the time of the year.

Other sites we aim to visit in Doubtful Bay include the mighty Steep Island and Ruby Falls at Red Cone Creek.

Arrive
Depart
Day 6
23rd Jul 2025
Montgomery Reef

Montgomery Reef is a biologically diverse area covering over 30 ...

Montgomery Reef is a biologically diverse area covering over 300 sq km and was named by Phillip Parker King. Twice daily, as the sea recedes in mammoth 11m tides, Montgomery Reef rises from the Indian Ocean in a cascade of rushing water revealing a flat-topped reef pockmarked with rock pools and rivulets.

As the reef emerges, we get up close in our Xplorer and Zodiac inflatable tenders to witness the spectacle as our Expedition Team share their knowledge on the formation of the reef and the myriad wildlife. Opportunistic birds take advantage of the emerging reef, feeding on marine life left exposed in rock pools. Turtles, dolphins, dugongs and sawfish too are also attracted to feeding opportunities as the ocean recedes.

The ocean is awash in a swirl of eddies and whirlpools as the moon’s gravitational force takes hold. Then, a few hours later the entire water-borne drama is reversed as the tide comes in and Montgomery Reef disappears below sea level.

Arrive
Depart
Day 7
24th Jul 2025
Prince Regent River & Careening Bay

King Cascade is a classically beautiful terraced waterfall a ...

King Cascade is a classically beautiful terraced waterfall and is one of the most photographed waterfalls in the Kimberley. Falling from a considerable height and around 50m across, water tumbles down a staggered terrace of Kimberley sandstone. Layer upon layer of ochre-hued and blackened rock sprouts grasses, mosses and ferns in a sort of lushly vegetated hanging garden.

We reach King Cascade after cruising in our Xplorer tender vessels down the steep-sided Prince Regent River which is a remarkable anomaly as the river runs dead straight along a fault line.

Lt. Phillip Parker King named nearby Careening Bay after he beached his leaking vessel HMC Mermaid to effect repairs. While stranded on this remote coastline for 17 days the ship’s carpenter carved HMC Mermaid 1820 into the bottle-shaped trunk of a boab tree near the beach. 200 years later, the Mermaid Boab Tree has since split into two trunks and sports a mammoth girth of 12m. Significantly, the bulbous tree is listed on the National Register of Big Trees and the carpenter’s careful inscription now stands almost as tall as a person.

Arrive
Depart
Day 8
25th Jul 2025
Prince Frederick Harbour and Bigge Island (Wuuyuru)

Prince Frederick Harbour is one of the Kimberley’s most spectacu ...

Prince Frederick Harbour is one of the Kimberley’s most spectacular locations at the southern end of York Sound. The harbour is dotted with islands lined with mangroves and monsoon rainforests, set against a backdrop of ochre-hued escarpment.

White-bellied sea eagles and other birds of prey are often seen here, and at low tide, expansive mudflats reveal large populations of mudskippers and mangrove crabs. We will take our Xplorer tender vessels on a cruise up Porosus Creek to view some striking rock formations.

Bigge Island’s Indigenous name is Wuuyuru, and the Indigenous Group of the area is the Wunambal people.

Arrive
Depart
Day 9
26th Jul 2025
Mitchell Falls, Winyalkan, & Swift Bay

Tumbling down the Mitchell Plateau in a series of tiered water ...

Tumbling down the Mitchell Plateau in a series of tiered waterfalls and emerald green rock pools, the Mitchell Falls are the photogenic poster child for the Mitchell River National Park. Take a scenic helicopter flight (additional cost) to multi-tiered Mitchell Falls where emerald-hued rock pools cascade down the escarpment and ancient rock art galleries are concealed in caves behind curtains of water.

Mitchell River National Park is inhabited by significant numbers of mammals, amphibians, reptiles and bird species which are lured by a year-round water source. Sandstone terraces beside tiered rock pools make a terrific viewing platform from which to savor the serenity of this ancient landscape.

An alternative option to Mitchell Falls is exploring the sandstone caves of Wollaston Bay or Wollaston Creek. This mass of weathered tunnels, arches and columns form a labyrinth-like maze and was once an Aboriginal midden. Another option while anchored at Winyalkan Bay is a visit to a series Wandjina and Gwion Gwion rock art galleries at Swift Bay.

In the evening we will enjoy watching the sunset over the Indian Ocean while indulging in a gourmet BBQ.

Arrive
Depart
Day 10
27th Jul 2025
Vansittart Bay

Vansittart Bay is home to many cultural and histori ...

Vansittart Bay is home to many cultural and historically significant sites like the remarkable Gwion Gwion (Bradshaw) Aboriginal rock art galleries estimated to be up to 20,000 years old. Jar Island is so-named after the pot shards found here, brought to the island by Makassan fishermen harvesting sea cucumbers (also known as trepang).

Nearby, on the Anjo Peninsula lays the well-preserved wreckage of a US Airforce C-53 Skytrooper aircraft, the result of a pilot losing his bearings flying from Perth to Broome in 1942 and putting down on a salt pan near present-day Truscott Airbase.

Arrive
Depart
Day 11
28th Jul 2025
King George River and Falls

Fed by the King George River draining across the Ga ...

Fed by the King George River draining across the Gardner Plateau, 80m tall King George Falls are the most impressive Kimberley waterfalls and the highest twin falls in Western Australia. Before reaching the mist-like spray rising from the base of King George Falls, we cruise through steep-sided gorges carved by a flooded river system that carved a swathe through the Kimberley landscape 400 million years ago.

Early in the waterfall season, we may cruise around the base of impressive King George Falls while in later months we take the opportunity to view the honeycomb erosion patterns of sandstone cliffs up close.

Arrive
Depart
Day 12
29th Jul 2025
Darwin

Your incredible adventure along the Kimberley Coast concludes. B ...

Your incredible adventure along the Kimberley Coast concludes. Bid farewell to new-found friends, the Captain and crew. A post-cruise transfer to CBD hotels is included and you have 1 night post voyage to explore.

Arrive
Depart
Day 13
30th Jul 2025
Darwin

Your holiday comes to an end today. Interested in extending? As ...

Your holiday comes to an end today. Interested in extending? Ask us about accommodation and car hire packages or Ghan Rail Journey extensions.

Arrive
Depart

YOUR SHIP - The Coral Adventurer

Coral Adventurer brand new 120 passenger ship is built to take you closer to unspoilt vistas in comfort, style and safety. When we set out to build the Coral Adventurer, we wanted a ship that would last us decades. Our search for build quality and technology took us to the shipbuilders of Norway who have a long history of building durable ships for the harsh environments of the North Sea. We then looked deep inside to capture the requirements of our guests, our crew and the areas we sail to. The result is a happy marriage of modern shipbuilding technology and cruising Australian style.

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Coral Adventurer brand new 120 passenger ship is built to take you closer to unspoilt vistas in comfort, style and safety. When we set out to build the Coral Adventurer, we wanted a ship that would last us decades. Our search for build quality and technology took us to the shipbuilders of Norway who have a long history of building durable ships for the harsh environments of the North Sea. We then looked deep inside to capture the requirements of our guests, our crew and the areas we sail to. The result is a happy marriage of modern shipbuilding technology and cruising Australian style.

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