In the third in a series of special reports on the nation’s most extraordinary marine environments, Guardian Australia’s ocean correspondent visits the proposed Great Kimberley marine park, and its amazing jewel in the crown: Horizontal Falls
Soon after taking off in our small aircraft, the Kimberley Aviation pilot, Ralph Bancroft, was confronted by a wall of wet season storm clouds. As we got closer, the clouds looked more like a mountain range than severe weather.
Bancroft was taking us north from Broome airport over the Dampier Peninsula and, he said over the plane’s intercom, there would be no going directly through a cloud like the one right in our path.