Kimberley Coast Western Australia
Australia

121 Cruises availables At departure or passage at this port

Emerald Waterways (16 Cruises)

Ponant (32 Cruises)

Princess Cruises (34 Cruises)

Seabourn Cruise Line (19 Cruises)

Silversea Cruises (20 Cruises)


Frequently Asked Questions

No. This coast has no port, no road and no village for hundreds of kilometres. You don't call here: you cruise it on expedition, over one to two weeks, between Broome and Wyndham or Darwin, aboard small ships equipped with zodiacs.
Depending on water and weather, the expedition team opens a new door each day: a river run between mangroves, a landing on an empty beach, an approach to a painted rock wall. Evening lectures on geology, wildlife and Aboriginal cultures set up the following day.
Up to twelve metres, twice a day, along orange sandstone cliffs nearly two billion years old. That breathing governs the whole programme: what is navigable in the morning may not be by afternoon.
In Talbot Bay, the tide forces through two narrow gorges with such power that the water forms genuine sea rapids, run by fast boat in a roar of foam. The phenomenon reverses at each turn of the tide: hours later, the same passage is a mirror.
Australia's largest inshore reef, which appears to rise out of the ocean as the tide falls: waterfalls pour off its coral tables and hectares of lagoon drain in front of passengers in zodiacs. Turtles, rays, reef sharks and dolphins hunt in the channels.
The King George River drops 80 metres, the highest falls in Western Australia, between two ochre-striped sandstone walls. Ships come up the fjord to the foot of the twin cataracts. In the dry season the flow thins, but the gorge itself, deep and silent, is worth the trip.
No. Saltwater crocodiles set the rules: nobody swims, and everyone scans the mud banks where they sun themselves. That authority of the wild is precisely what gives the voyage its character.
Figures painted in sandstone shelters a few minutes' walk from the beaches: the Wandjina, spirits with large eyes and no mouths, and the slender Gwion Gwion figures, among the oldest known painting traditions. Aboriginal guides or trained crew accompany the visit, and voices stay low.
Saltwater crocodiles, dugongs, sea snakes, ospreys, turtles, rays and reef sharks, logged by the onboard naturalists on each outing. In season, humpback whales pass offshore near Montgomery Reef.
Travellers who accept the discomfort of the unforeseen and walking on natural ground, in exchange for a world from before the maps. There are no shops, no cafés and no mobile coverage: the only light at night is the Milky Way.