Horizontal Falls

We have had an amazing day.
Flew Derby to the falls in a sea plane....extensive mud flats around Derby with creeks and rivers branching over the flats.
Circled the falls before our very smooth sea landing.
Swimming in a cage with sharks on the outside...tawny nurse sharks and Bull sharks.
The tide was coming in and we were there just before high tide....1 Meter drop in the water through the wide gap the speed of flow of the water was amazing as we raced through.
We were unable to go through the narrow gap as the drop from one side to the other was 3 Meters and the turbulence huge......we returned after lunch and the water had leveled out before turning to a flow out the other way....so we could go through.
Flight back over the islands of King Sound.... beautiful!

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