The tropics have a wet and a dry season, and this is the end of the dry season. You may have noticed that we’ve had no rain while we’ve been on this cruise, and the areas we’ve been in look like a desert or semi desert environment. We’re in the tropical dry season, and we’ve been gradually moving north and east. During the wet season in Broome it rains once or twice a week - better than a couple of hundred kilometres south, where it rarely rains, but a reasonably dry tropical area. As you move east (there’s not much north left if you still want to be in Australia) you get more rain during the wet season, but we’re still not in the wet tropics where it rains every day in the wet season.However, the Kimberley has a lot of amazing waterfalls. One of the largest is the King George Falls (Oomari Falls), twelve kilometres up the King George River. In the wet season these twin falls thunder down and along the gorge. Of course, the scene is different in the dry season.
Today we went up the river along the gorge to the falls. Just imagine twelve kilometres of this!
Don’t a lot of them look like faces? They’re eighty meters high.
Tomorrow morning we finish in Darwin.
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