Buccaneer Explorer Wet Season: Horizontal Waterfalls Seaplane & Cygnet Bay Pearl Farm Tour from Broome

A low, whining propeller announces departure as the coastline of the Dampier Peninsula shrinks into a ribbon of ochre and turquoise. From the window the Buccaneer Archipelago begins to rearrange itself—sandstone islands standing like ancient islands of rust and honey in a glassy sea. The pilot banks gently and the plane eases over a narrow, rushing seam of water: the Horizontal Waterfalls. For five electric minutes you circle a gap that the tide forces like the breath of the ocean, flinging water through rock clefts until the falls look more like a living gate than a cliff.