Kimberley Coast at Faraway Bay & Bullo River Cattle Station
7 days / 6 nights
Begins / Ends Kununurra

• Traditional hospitality, home hosted accommodation
• Fly over the Kimberley to understand its vast emptiness
• Catch barramundi on the Bullo River and ocean fish a-plenty at Faraway Bay
• View Aboriginal art, marine and terrestrial wildlife & stunning scenery
• Explore the Kimberley hinterland, big rivers, gorges and coast on horseback, by helicopter, out walking, by boat
• Take part cattle station activities
• Visit the King George River and the King George Falls

Day 1 - Bullo River Station, Homestead accommodation, 3 nights

Depart Kununurra via private charter flight for one of the most remote properties in Australia, the half-million acre Bullo River Station. So isolated is this region that there are waterholes and aboriginal art that have remained unseen and untouched for hundreds of years.

Your hostess, Marlee Ranacher, grew up on the station and she and her husband, Franz, now manage the property and its 8,000 head of cattle. Accommodation will be in one of 12 guest rooms, each with en suite. Meals are enjoyed in the homestead dining room or you are welcome to join the station hands and family in the kitchen.

Day 2 & 3 - Bullo River Station

Activities include exploring the crocodile infested Bullo River where the barramundi fishing is excellent and where hidden gorges reflect deep red colours and reveal ancient aboriginal rock paintings.

Optional excursions that can be arranged are visits to the aboriginal community at Port Keats to experience a bush tucker walk and buy local artworks. Or you might wish to take a helicopter flight to a remote waterfall for a picnic lunch. If you are feeling adventurous take a swag (traditional bed roll), a bottle of wine and a hamper and spend a night under the stars.

The mood is very relaxed and the choice is yours - you may prefer to just join the Ranachers and experience the operations of a genuine working cattle station – cattle mustering and bull catching are seasonal.

Day 4 - The Bush Camp at Faraway Bay, 3 nights

After breakfast your private plane arrives to fly across the rugged Kimberley region to the your camp at Faraway Bay on the Kimberley Coast. Bruce & Robyn Ellison named their camp 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.

Day 5 & 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.