Bucket list item! "The Horizontal Falls", Talbot Bay, Western Australia

[A HERETIC I AM]

First ever post in this group, so I hope you regulars don't mind. There are numerous videos about this particularly interesting tidal feature on the Indian Ocean Coast of Western Australia, in an area known as "The Kimberly's".

Here's a short narrated by Sir Attenborough;

A 35' tidal change! Remarkable. For comparison, the famous Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia is around a 50' change.


Here's a vid produced by a Western Australia Tourism promotional firm, featuring a company that will fly you in and then take you for a boat ride!

One of the great and fascinating natural features of Australia.




I had the good fortune to live in Australia for a while back in the 70's and visit again in the 90's several times, but I have never been to WA.
Come on, Powerball! Daddy needs a new pair of shoes and a couple dozen stamps on his passport!!

[TreasonousBastard]

1. Definitely bucket list stuff, but it's a big bucket at 3 grand per couple for the overnight...

plus the plane fare and whatever else you do for the week or two there.

[A HERETIC I AM]

2. Yeah....a wee pricey!

I've traveled quite a bit, but YouTube and Google Street View have truly opened my eyes to the spaces and places I really want to see before I shred this mortal coil.

The expense on some of these "bucket list" type items however is way beyond my current means!

I'd like to see Antarctica and go by ship from Ushuaia, Argentina to the peninsula, across the Drake Passage, but that would be nearly twenty grand for a week!

Or stay at this Marriott resort I found, in the desert 70 miles outside Dubai - $1400 a night!

I'm too old to do the camping in a tent while cycling in Viet Nam thing anymore. I want a Four Seasons or a Starwood Property!!

I suppose that's why it's called a bucket list and not a "must do" list!

BTW and FWIW, here's something I thought of in the "if I win the lottery" category;

Go to one of the major custom coach builders, Like Marathon or Newell, have them put together a RIGHT HAND DRIVE coach with all the bells and whistles, ship it down under, tour the country and then put it up for sale.

I'm betting you could sell it in a week with 40,000 miles on it for almost what you paid for it. But what an adventure!

[TreasonousBastard]

3. I was thinking of just a worldwide "Travels With Charlie", maybe by boat.

[A HERETIC I AM]

4. All of that and more!