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threw open the window of my room at the Mangrove kilometres to the north of Broome on the Dampier
Hotel, and the sky was a fiery red. So red that for a Peninsula. Our luggage, in the meantime, would be
moment I thought that the town of Broome was on fire. transported to Kooljaman by road since the seaplane
But in reality, it was just the sun flirting with rain-laden could not carry the burden of both, the people and
clouds from just below the horizon. There had been their luggage. But Australia had other plans for us.
a gusty storm playing out over the region through the Sitting in the seaplane was like sitting in a van
night; now, it seemed to be abating. with stiff suspension. The single-engine Cessna
Broome is a beach resort town in the Kimberley rode all the gusts of wind—prevalent thanks to the
region of Western Australia. My adventurous plan was recent storm—like bumps on a road, as we sat on
to hop on a seaplane flight—with five friends—to the bench seats amid the burble of the exhaust. As we
Horizontal Falls near Kimbolton, which is a 45-minute neared the Horizontal Falls, our pilot dived down so
flight or a 10-hour drive away. Then the seaplane would that we’d get a clear view from the perspective of a
drop us off at Kooljaman at Cape Leveque, nearly 210 soaring eagle.
