Aka the Oomari Falls -leaving the best to last ?

The river in itself is a stunning waterway of Sandstone cliffs with streaks of the cyanobacteria which form the black lines on the stones. Rocks perched on top of one another, some precariously balanced. It may look very different in a few years if there is an earth tremor or the rock figs dislodge some of the rocks. Behind two sentinel walls of sandstone the two falls appear. The story is that men carved the left waterfall and women the right – they both thundered down but the left was stronger and bigger – no surprises in that story line!

The erosion of some of the sandstone by the spray leads to some parts of the rock developing a honeycomb pattern. The rock figs grow in crevasses and on ledges, some mangroves fringe the edges of the river, turtles and dugongs love swimming around to eat the seagrass and the birds of prey circle the thermals above.

On the previous day we had been told there would be tea and coffee on the boat and some samosas. So at the end of the morning we were waiting for our samosas but none appeared. We laughed out loud when we realised that it was not samosas but some mimosas on offer to mark the end of this epic voyage in the Kimberley.