MV OCEANIC ANCHORED IN THE KIMBERLEY DRIVE BROOME - CAPE LEVEQUE CRUISE KIMBERLEY ISLANDS The MV Oceanic is a powered mono hull, 24 metres long, rigged sailing yacht. Under power can travel at 6 knots. Storage for 8000 litres of fresh water and 12,000 litres of fuel with three tenders for exploring. Built 1992 in Fremantle. Accommodation is basic and clean. Caught fish can be cooked. It has to be said, most if not all Kimberley Islands luxury ship tours are priced from upwar

The Buccaneer Archipelago of Western Australia These are a group of islands off the Western Australia coast. The nearest town is Derby. The closest inhabited place is Bardi. An aboriginal settlement about fifty kilometres away on the coast. The Archipelago is over fifty square kilometres (19 sq. mi) in size. Composed of about eight hundred islands found between King Sound and Collier Bay. Close to Yampi Sound. Huge Tidal Range in the Kimberley Islands The area where our adven

Don't get crabs in your thongs. -Shipmates Thongs & Crabs Western Australia Thongs in Australia are open footwear. They offer protection underfoot from hot sand and sharp objects. Over two thousand five hundred islands are off the Kimberley coast of Western Australia. Many are unnamed and a few unexplored. The Kimberley islands stretch along the coast from the Western Australian/Northern Territory border in the east, to the northern most islands and down towards Broome. Beach

a female passenger had been left behind on Raft Point leaving the woman stranded on the remote beach - Australian Maritime Safety Authority KIMBERLEY ISLANDS OF AUSTRALIA DAY 20 SUNDAY End of Kimberley Islands Cruise Western Australia Final day at sea and back to home port. All crew and passengers had an incident free, safe and enjoyable time on this Kimberley Island cruise. Crew member Paul was to captain the next cruise of the MV Oceanic. Not unusual for ships to rotate sk

DAY 19 Horizontal Falls Locals call them the (Horries) and the falls are described by David Attenborough as a great natural wonder of the world. Located on the coast of the Kimberley region in Western Australia. The falls form when seawater rushes through two short and narrow gorges which are about three hundred metres (1,000 ft) apart. The falls are located in the coastal Mclarty Ranges within Talbot Bay and within the Buccaneer Archipelago. The seaward gap is about twenty m

DAY 18 Will we finish our island dinner party before the sea and tide covers the small sandy island along with all of us. It's miles to shore? -fellow shipmates Land rises out of the sea with ten metre tides. Montgomery Reef & Cruise the Kimberley Islands The large reef is off the Kimberley coast of Western Australia. Situated near the Montgomery Islands. About twenty kilometres (12 mi) offshore, opposite Doubtful Bay to the east and Collier Bay to the south. The nearest inha