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Day 1 - El Questro Station,
El Questro Homestead, 2 nights
You will be collected from Kununurra Airport and
transferred to El Questro, a privately owned wilderness
park, via 4WD. Charter flight and helicopter transfers are
available at additional cost.
Your hosts will assist in the planning of your stay. Among
the many options are fishing for barramundi, horseback
riding, a guided bush tucker tour, scenic helicopter
flights, and relaxing in a private thermal springs oasis.
The Homestead is an exclusive retreat catering for a
maximum of twelve guests and offering the highest level of
service and cuisine. Guests are encouraged to choose from
a selection of dining locations – from private cliff tops
overlooking the Chamberlain River to the wide verandah of
the homestead. This is the perfect place to let the
massive beauty of the untamed Kimberley take effect.
Day 2 - El Questro
Take a cruise down the Chamberlain Gorge, to view some
fine examples of Aboriginal Wandjina rock art. Horse treks
are a fabulous way to sneak up on Kimberley wildlife
including brumbies, wild donkeys, bustards, frilled neck
lizards, goannas, brolgas, jabirus, techni-coloured
parrots and saltwater crocodiles. El Questro maintains a
herd of 5,000 cattle and they are often seen grazing on
the saltpans.
After a morning in the saddle or on foot you may elect to
relax in the soothing thermal waters of Zebedee Springs.
An El Questro highlight is a scenic helicopter flight
through canyons and gorges, past waterfalls, caves and
galloping brumbies.
Day 3 - The Bush Camp at
Faraway Bay, 4 nights
There is still time to explore the homestead surrounds– or
perhaps catch that record barramundi – before you are
taken back to Kununurra where you board your charter plane
for the 70 minute flight to your remote bush camp on the
Kimberley Coast. This is a total contrast to El Questro –
a truly unique ‘Bush Camp', named by owners Bruce & Robyn
Ellison Faraway Bay because ‘it is so far from anywhere’.
Each of the 8 bush-style cabins enjoys a 180-degree view
of the ocean. There is a freshwater swimming pool perched
on the edge of the cliff looking across the bay.
In the afternoon, let Bruce take you out in the boat for a
sneak preview of his local area. Perhaps a swim in a
waterhole at the foot of the escarpment, which comes right
to the coast, or looking for one of the pairs of Ospreys,
that live nearby. Dinner will be served after watching the
sun’s rays disappearing behind the sandstone cliffs of the
bay.
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Day 4, 5 and 6 -
Faraway Bay Bush Camp
Fill your days with adventures including cruises up the
Kimberley coast to the King George River, where, after the
wet season the falls cascade over a hundred foot cliff
into the gorge below. There are few places in the world
where you will see mighty inland rivers come crashing out
from the interior of a continent and into the sea as
towering waterfalls – this is one of them.
South of the camp Monitor Pool is a magnificent circular
plunge pool at the foot of imposing basalt and sandstone
cliffs and a refreshingly cool and safe place for
swimming.
Wander along empty beaches, cook fresh fish over the hot
coals on an impromptu picnic, bush walk and discover
ancient aboriginal art.
The blue waters of the Indian Ocean are seductively
enticing but enter them at your peril – saltwater
crocodiles (some as long as 20 feet) and sharks inhabit
this coastline. It is more comforting, yet still exciting,
to watch them, an occasional school of dolphins or a
circling sea eagle from the safety of the camp swimming
pool.
Watching the sun descend across the ocean as it sets aglow
the red sandstone cliffs of the Kimberley coast is a
memorable way to pass the evening.
Day 7 - Return to Kununurra
After breakfast, your
aircraft will arrive to fly you back over the East
Kimberley coast to Kununurra.
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