WHERE MY CUP RUNNETH OVER
Travel+Leisure India|January 2020
HORIZONTAL WATERFALLS, SEAPLANE FLIGHTS, SHARK CAGES, CAMEL RIDES, AND LIP-SMACKING FOOD. RISHAD SAAM MEHTA RELISHES A SLICE OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA ON A UNIQUE ITINERARY.
RISHAD SAAM MEHTA
WHERE MY CUP RUNNETH OVER
I threw open the window of my room at the Mangrove Hotel, and the sky was a fiery red. So red that for a moment I thought that the town of Broome was on fire. But in reality, it was just the sun flirting with rain-laden clouds from just below the horizon. There had been a gusty storm playing out over the region through the night; now, it seemed to be abating.

Broome is a beach resort town in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. My adventurous plan was to hop on a seaplane flight—with five friends—to the Horizontal Falls near Kimbolton, which is a 45-minute flight or a 10-hour drive away. Then the seaplane would drop us off at Kooljaman at Cape Leveque, nearly 210 kilometres to the north of Broome on the Dampier Peninsula. Our luggage, in the meantime, would be transported to Kooljaman by road since the seaplane could not carry the burden of both, the people and their luggage. But Australia had other plans for us.

Sitting in the seaplane was like sitting in a van with stiff suspension. The single-engine Cessna rode all the gusts of wind—prevalent thanks to the recent storm—like bumps on a road, as we sat on bench seats amid the burble of the exhaust. As we neared the Horizontal Falls, our pilot dived down so that we’d get a clear view from the perspective of a soaring eagle.

‘ONE OF THE GREATEST’

Some of my co-flyers even screeched like excited birds of prey as the Cessna rapidly dumped altitude. From my window seat, I took a few pictures but then put my camera aside to soak in the natural phenomenon that David Attenborough once described as ‘one of the greatest wonders of the natural world’.

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