Overview
Adventure Quest
The 10 day Adventure Quest is an extensive exploration of the southern Kimberley, visiting many unknown sights, rarely visited islands, inlets and ‘secret spots’. Enjoy pristine beaches, secluded fresh water swimming holes, ancient Aboriginal art sites and fishing for Barramundi and many more fish species.
This Broome to Broome loop visits icons such as the Horizontal Falls, Montgomery Reef and the King Cascade to name a few. Your 10 day Kimberley cruise from Broome takes in all there is to offer of the southern Kimberley region allowing you to explore many breathtaking areas, discover the deep history of the region and enjoy unforgettable scenery.


Highlights
Our 10 Day Adventure Quest allows you to expand your exploration of the Kimberley region, visiting locations that other cruises don’t go to. Stoke your sense of adventure as we explore everything from well-known highlights to little-known areas that are some of our very favourite ‘secret spots’.
Join us to experience extra-special highlights that you won’t find on our other cruises – whether this is your first cruise, or you’re back for another taste, this will guarantee some unique destinations!
10 Day
Adventure Quest
Crocodile Creek
- Nature
Despite the name, this creek has a favoured swimming place – a beautiful natural pool above a waterfall. The scenic approach passes quartzite cliffs and slate-like outcrops of Wotjulum porphyry.
Visit Crocodile Creek on our Kimberley Cruises
Broome
- Tourist destination
As the region’s largest town, founded in the heyday of pearling, Broome’s multicultural heritage runs deep. This is the place that inspired the music of the Pigram Brothers and Jimmy Chi’s Bran Nue Dae and Corrugation Road. Enjoy magnificent Cable Beach, ride on a camel or watch the Staircase to the Moon over glittering Roebuck Bay. If you visit in August, Opera under the Stars and Race Round are options, while September’s highlight is the Shinju Matsuri Festival.
Visit Broome on our Kimberley Cruises
Cape Leveque
- Nature
Located at the northern tip of the Dampier Peninsula and flanked by magnificent beaches, the headland is best known for its lighthouse and Bardi-owned Kooljaman resort. With a setting sun, the blood-red cliffs provide a stunning background for breaching humpback whales.
Visit Cape Leveque on our Kimberley Cruises
Cygnet Bay Pearl Farm
- Industry
Set in the pristine waters of Cygnet Bay, this was the first Australian owned and run South Sea pearl farm. While still a working farm, Cygnet Bay has also expanded into a unique accommodation and touring destination for visitors to the Kimberley. As the only fully operational pearl farm open to the public, Cygnet Bay offers a fascinating insight into the process of pearl production.
Visit Cygnet Bay Pearl Farm on our Kimberley Cruises
Buccaneer Archipelago
- Nature
Often referred to as the “Thousand Islands”, though many are mere rocks, the name celebrates the explorer and erstwhile pirate William Dampier. Englishman Dampier visited the area in 1688. One of the attractions of the area is the remarkable Silica Beach, where we sometimes swim on high tide. Its sand is blindingly white and as fine as caster sugar.
Visit Buccaneer Archipelago on our Kimberley Cruises
Tablot Bay
- Nature
Talbot Bay is home to one of the icons of the Kimberley coast, the spectacular Horizontal Waterfalls. These twin narrow gaps in a corner of the bay separate a series of double bays. Extreme tidal whirlpools develop around the gaps, making for a thrilling dinghy ride. Take a tender and head in for an up-close and exhilarating ride through this natural phenomenon.
Visit Tablot Bay on our Kimberley Cruises
Koolan Island
- Industry
Koolan Island functions as a major mine, exporting high grade iron ore (haematite) in bulk carriers from its wharf to China. The mine was originally begun by BHP in 1965, creating a colossal pit extending below sea level.
Visit Koolan Island on our Kimberley Cruises
Cockatoo Island
- Industry
Operated by BHP as the area’s first iron ore mine (1951-1984), it later functioned and failed as a resort operated by entrepreneur Alan Bond. The mine site is currently owned by Pluton Resources, but is approaching economic closure.
Visit Cockatoo Island on our Kimberley Cruises
Dugong Bay
- Nature
East of the Horizontal Falls, Cyclone Creek displays geological marvels. Join a scenic excursion up the back of Cyclone Creek to marvel at these amazing rock formations.
Visit Dugong Bay on our Kimberley Cruises
Horizontal Falls
- Heritage listed
Twin narrow gaps in a corner of Talbot Bay separate a series of double bays. Extreme tidal whirlpools develop around the gaps, making for a thrilling dinghy ride. Further east, Cyclone Creek displays geological marvels including cliffs of pressure-folded rock, fault-lines and a wall of conglomerate.
Visit Horizontal Falls on our Kimberley Cruises
Cyclone Creek
- Nature
East of the Horizontal Falls, Cyclone Creek displays geological marvels. Join a scenic excursion up the back of Cyclone Creek to marvel at these amazing rock formations.
Visit Cyclone Creek on our Kimberley Cruises
Secure Bay
- Fishing
In reality, Secure Bay is two bays, connected by a narrow scenic passage with a spectacular tide-race and whirlpool. The inner bay features a stark black hillside of dolerite boulders with spinifex ‘stripes’, as well as vast areas of mangrove habitat.
Visit Secure Bay on our Kimberley Cruises
Collier Bay
- Fishing
Traversed en route to Raft Point and Montgomery Reef, our track typically passes the Kingfisher Islands in the centre of the Bay. The Kingfisher Islands are noted for their pink-hued cliffs, stone barrier beaches and fishing opportunities.
Visit Collier Bay on our Kimberley Cruises
Red Cone Creek, Ruby Falls
- Nature
On the eastern shore of Doubtful Bay, a vast area of mangrove-lined creeks surrounds a conical hill. Behind here, Ruby Falls plunges into a narrow gorge, above which are a string of beautiful billabongs, ideal for a swim. Red Cone Creek is noted for its mud crabs and fishing.
Visit Red Cone Creek, Ruby Falls on our Kimberley Cruises
Doubtful Bay
- Fishing
Named by John Lort Stokes RN of HMS Beagle in 1838 due to his uncertainty as to whether or not the bay led to the Glenelg River, which had just been found by George Grey travelling overland. This area has many scenic and fishing attractions.
Visit Doubtful Bay on our Kimberley Cruises
Montgomery Reef
- Heritage listed
Covering an astounding 280 square kilometres, this reef seems to miraculously rise out of the sea – such is the size of its tides. Draining seawater pours continuously over the reef edge, particularly along the spectacular reef channel. Turtles, schools of surgeon-fish and reef egrets abound. Marine biologist Barry Wilson theorises that the reef has grown on top of a drowned sandstone mesa, making it truly one of a kind.
Visit Montgomery Reef on our Kimberley Cruises
Booby Island
- Wildlife
The scenic sandstone and basalt islands of Brunswick Bay include the remote seabird colony of Booby Island. This area is also a good spot for pelagic fishing.
Visit Booby Island on our Kimberley Cruises
Heywood & Champagny Islands
- Heritage listed
Heywood and Champagny Islands offer spectacular crystal clear beaches for relaxing. Walk on a deserted beach then enjoy a refreshing swim in the sensational waters.
You can also visit an historic secret radar base from World War II, which is a truly fascinating heritage site.
Visit Heywood & Champagny Islands on our Kimberley Cruises
Sale River
- Nature
A beautiful estuary noted for its dramatic sandstone cliffs, home to a rare endemic Grevillea with silver leaves. Near the tidal limit is a lush rainforest, full of ferns and butterflies.
Visit Sale River on our Kimberley Cruises
Kuri Bay
- Industry
Once the largest pearl farm in the world, this remote settlement is now abandoned. It was here in the 1950s that the first South Sea cultured pearls were produced by Pearls Pty Ltd, laying the foundation of a multi-million dollar industry.
Visit Kuri Bay on our Kimberley Cruises
Cathedral Falls
- Waterfall
With an impressive 80 metre drop, ‘Cathedral Falls’ boasts an amphitheatre of vertical cliffs surrounding a circular plunge-pool. Accessible only on spring tides by dinghy, through a narrow corridor of mangroves.
Visit Cathedral Falls on our Kimberley Cruises
King Cascade
- Waterfall
This iconic waterfall is renowned for its beautiful stepped terraces, graced with delicate grasses and lush ferns. It was named after Lieutenant Phillip Parker King RN, who sketched the site in 1820. Tragedy struck in 1987 when a young American woman, Ginger Meadows, was taken by a crocodile at the base of the falls. Much safer swimming in crystal-clear pools lies upstream of the Cascade.
Visit King Cascade on our Kimberley Cruises
Camden Harbour, Sheep Island, Deception Bay
- History
This was the scene of a disastrous agricultural settlement in 1864-1865, based on Merino sheep. Stone ruins and an island cemetery can still be seen. Delicious rock oysters abound. Opposite is Augustus Island, which at 17,950 hectares, is the largest island on the Kimberley coast.
Visit Camden Harbour, Sheep Island, Deception Bay on our Kimberley Cruises
Prince Regent River
- Nature
Following a fault-line trending southeast, the 104 km river runs remarkably straight, giving it a unique character. Keep an eye out for rare snubfin dolphins, which live in the estuary. Almost the whole catchment is conserved in the Prince Regent National Park: one of the great wilderness areas of Australia.
Visit Prince Regent River on our Kimberley Cruises
Mount Trafalgar
- Nature
At 391 metres, this is a stunning sandstone mesa, which dominates the landscape with its dramatic silhouette. Below adjacent Mt Waterloo lies Marigui, where Joseph Bradshaw and Aeneas Gunn attempted to run sheep during the 1890s.
Visit Mount Trafalgar on our Kimberley Cruises
Rothsay Water
- Fishing
A cruise down Rothsay Water offers an opportunity to fish under the majesty of Mt Trafalgar. Also home to two distinctive types of rock art known as Wandjina and Gwion Gwion styles, these two different types of rock art have very different characteristics.
Rothsay Water offers the chance to view both of these styles of ancient rock art with a tender excursion to explore the area’s many examples of artwork.
Visit Rothsay Water on our Kimberley Cruises
Itinerary
Dates and prices
Prices
What's includedDouble cabin | $13,900 PP |
Superior cabin | $14,900 PP |
Flybridge cabin | $16,900 PP |