Kimberley Cruises

Experience the Kimberley’s Best-Kept Secrets with Award-Winning Small-Group Adventure Cruising.

The Kimberley, one of the world’s last untouched wildernesses, boasts islands, whirlpools, inlets, extensive waterfalls, pristine beaches and unforgettable scenery. Kimberley Quest offers private charters and small group cruises with a maximum of 18 guests, ensuring a personalised adventure of this unique region.

2026 & 2027 Kimberley Cruise Dates and Availability

Welcome aboard the Kimberley Quest II

Kimberley Quest is a multi-award-winning, luxury Kimberley cruise company operating extended wilderness expeditions along the stunning Kimberley coast, cruising between Broome and Wyndham. The Kimberley Quest II is a 25 metre vessel that has been designed for relaxing and exploring the Kimberley coastline, its custom design allows us to visit areas many other Kimberley cruises simply cannot reach. Whilst on board guests can enjoy indoor and outdoor alfresco areas, a refreshing dip in the spa and gourmet cuisine prepared by our onboard chef. Cruising with a maximum of 18 guests, our personalised service and attention to every detail mean you will enjoy the amazing surrounds in complete comfort and luxury. With cruises ranging from 4 to 21 days, led by expert local guides, there is an experience to suit every adventurer. The team at Kimberley Quest will convey their passion for this ancient land, forging the sights and sounds of the Kimberley into your memory forever, making it one of the most unforgettable Kimberley coast cruises available.

Cruising the Kimberley

Don’t miss out! Kimberley Cruises now booking for 2026 and 2027 with limited departures.

There are a range of Kimberley cruises available and your daily cruise adventures feature a myriad of activities. Leaving the mother-ship in our custom-built tender vessels you will set out exploring the untouched river systems, viewing ancient Aboriginal rock art and fishing the tidal creeks as well as discovering the history of the area, viewing the rugged cliffs, caves, waterfalls and gorges, spotting wildlife, taking refreshing dips in secluded waterholes and much more! Plan ahead for your Kimberley 2026 and 2027 cruise adventures and experience the magic of the region in style.

Taste of the Kimberley

4 days

This cruise offers a taste of our renowned itineraries and will see you visit some of the most iconic sites in the southern Kimberley.

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Southern Quest

8 days

The stunning southern region is prolific with islands, inlets and pockets of rainforest home to many species of birds and other wildlife.

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Northern Quest

8 days

Renowned for its massive gorges and river systems, extensive waterfalls, the northern Kimberley is an experience not to be missed.

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Adventure Quest

10 days

An extensive exploration of the Southern Kimberley, visiting many unknown sights: rarely visited islands, inlets and secret spots.

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Exploration Quest

11 days

This cruise explores the Kimberley region, featuring ancient Aboriginal rock art (Gwion Gwion and Wandjina), wildlife spotting, sea caves discoveries, and ...

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Ultimate Quest

14 days

These cruises operate just after our wet season, which brings new life and spectacular waterfalls from March through to June.

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Beyond Adventure

21 days

Allowing extra time to explore the Kimberley, experience an amazing 21 days with one of the most extensive itineraries on offer in the region!

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Fishing Expeditions

6 days

Enjoy an action-packed fishing adventure of a lifetime! Our local guides will take you to the best spots to snag the best species.

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A multi-award winning, luxury Kimberley cruise company specialising in small-group cruising

At the 2018 and 2019 Western Australian Tourism Awards, Kimberley Quest won the gold award in the category of Tour & Transport Operator. The Kimberley Cruises company was also a silver medalist in the category Unique Accommodation. After this success in the WA event, Kimberley Quest was invited to the national awards, where we were humbled to be presented with the national gold award for Tour & Transport Operator for 2 years in a row.

Why cruise with Kimberley Quest?

Unrivalled Small-Group Experience

Explore the Kimberley in an intimate and personalised setting with expert local guides.

A multi-award winning, luxury Kimberley cruise company

Trusted by travellers worldwide for our exceptional service and in-depth regional knowledge.

Exclusive & Remote Itineraries

Access hidden gems and secluded locations only reachable by small expedition vessels.

Luxury & Comfort in the Wilderness

Enjoy a slow-paced, all-inclusive journey with gourmet dining, premium cabins, and tailored experiences.

Eco-Conscious & Sustainable Travel

Travel responsibly with a company committed to preserving the Kimberley’s pristine environment.

Highly Recommended by Past Guests

Many travellers join us based on personal recommendations and return for another adventure.

What people say about Kimberley Quest

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“It was great to experience the Kimberley with this amazing team.

The quality of food and service for a remote touring operation was the best I have experienced.

The diversity of activities was a draw card. Having the opportunity to explore via land and air was a point of difference. Seeing remote rock art that the average punter will never see was a highlight. Overall, this is the best holiday experience I have ever had. Well done Kimberley Quest.”

Joel & Ruth

29 Sept 2025

“Excellent. It is by far the best holiday we have ever been on. The places we visited, staff and activities. The crew made the week sensational. Professionalism from the top down. The knowledge of the staff about the area is next level.

Five star, magnificent is all we can say.”

Stephen & Helen

10 June 2025

“I cannot fault this trip, the variety of scenery, the knowledge of the team, the level of service and detail, the attention to each individual’s needs and the fun and enthusiasm of everyone board. The food was superb and I felt everything was catered for so beautifully. The team on board made the trip very special, our Captain was great and the team were very efficient.”

Deb

24 May 2025

Had the best time, amazing experience of a lifetime!

Thank you so much to all the crew onboard and Kimberley Quest staff for making my trip the most incredible experience!

Lauren

04 Feb 2025

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A broad, sheltered inlet on the northern Kimberley coast, surrounded by towering sandstone escarpments. Fed by rivers and fringed with mangrove-lined creeks, the harbour is known for dramatic tidal movements, rich with wildlife including crocodiles, turtles, and birdlife. The harbour is a gateway to the Hunter & Roe Rivers and ancient Indigenous rock art. It’s one of the Kimberley’s most iconic and picturesque anchorages.

Visit Prince Frederick Harbour

11 days: Exploration Quest

A remote, island-studded inlet on the northern Kimberley coast. Renowned for its rugged, untouched beauty, the sound forms part of a vast maze of red sandstone cliffs, turquoise channels, tidal reefs, and secluded bays that characterise this wild coastline. The landscape shifts dramatically with the tides, revealing sandbanks, hidden coves, and intricate reef systems. Offering a sense of deep wilderness: quiet anchorages, opportunities for fishing and access to Indigenous rock art sites and geological formations that speak to the region’s ancient history.

Visit Montague Sound

11 days: Exploration Quest

With an area of 17,190 hectares, this is the second largest island of the Kimberley coast. Its landscape of shattered King Leopold sandstone is populated by Australia’s smallest rock wallaby, the monjon. The best-known Wunambal rock art site at Wary Bay depicts Sea Wanjinas (Gayaras), images of sailing ships and even figures rowing a boat.

Visit Bigge Island

Cambridge Gulf is one of the location that will be explored during the KImberley Quest Adventure

From Lacrosse Island in the north to Wyndham and beyond in the south stretches the huge tide-dominated estuary known as Cambridge Gulf. It was first charted by Phillip Parker King in 1819 and functions as the shipping channel for the port of Wyndham. We usually cruise through overnight on our voyages.

Visit Cambrige Gulf

Despite the name, this creek has a favoured swimming place – a beautiful natural pool above a waterfall. The scenic approach passes quartzite cliffs and slate-like outcrops of Wotjulum porphyry.

Visit Crocodile Creek

The port of Wyndham is both the starting and ending point for 14 day voyages between Wyndham and Broome or vice versa. Exporting live cattle, nickel and iron ore has helped revive the town’s fortunes in recent years. From the Five Rivers Lookout, high above the port on The Bastion, there are sweeping views west across the vast salt flats.

Visit Wyndham

As the region’s largest town, founded in the heyday of pearling, Broome’s multicultural heritage runs deep. This is the place that inspired the music of the Pigram Brothers and Jimmy Chi’s Bran Nue Dae and Corrugation Road. Enjoy magnificent Cable Beach, ride on a camel or watch the Staircase to the Moon over glittering Roebuck Bay. If you visit in August, Opera under the Stars and Race Round are options, while September’s highlight is the Shinju Matsuri Festival.

Visit Broome

Located at the northern tip of the Dampier Peninsula and flanked by magnificent beaches, the headland is best known for its lighthouse and Bardi-owned Kooljaman resort. With a setting sun, the blood-red cliffs provide a stunning background for breaching humpback whales.

Visit Cape Leveque

Set in the pristine waters of Cygnet Bay, this was the first Australian owned and run South Sea pearl farm. While still a working farm, Cygnet Bay has also expanded into a unique accommodation and touring destination for visitors to the Kimberley. As the only fully operational pearl farm open to the public, Cygnet Bay offers a fascinating insight into the process of pearl production.

Visit Cygnet Bay Pearl Farm

Often referred to as the “Thousand Islands”, though many are mere rocks, the name celebrates the explorer and erstwhile pirate William Dampier. Englishman Dampier visited the area in 1688. One of the attractions of the area is the remarkable Silica Beach, where we sometimes swim on high tide. Its sand is blindingly white and as fine as caster sugar.

Visit Buccaneer Archipelago

Talbot Bay is home to one of the icons of the Kimberley coast, the spectacular Horizontal Waterfalls. These twin narrow gaps in a corner of the bay separate a series of double bays. Extreme tidal whirlpools develop around the gaps, making for a thrilling dinghy ride. Take a tender and head in for an up-close and exhilarating ride through this natural phenomenon.

Visit Talbot Bay

Koolan Island functions as a major mine, exporting high grade iron ore (haematite) in bulk carriers from its wharf to China. The mine was originally begun by BHP in 1965, creating a colossal pit extending below sea level.

Visit Koolan Island

Strickland Bay contains examples of the great features that make the Kimberley so special – including rivers, mangroves, reefs, beaches, and a number of islands.

It has great fishing and some fascinating historical sites from the early days of the pearling industry. Pearling in the 1880s was conducted by luggers amd was heavily concentrated in this area. There are 15 isolated graves of of early pearl divers in the Strickland Bay area. Cultured pearl farms are now located in this area.

Visit Strickland Bay

Fishing Expedition

Operated by BHP as the area’s first iron ore mine (1951-1984), it later functioned and failed as a resort operated by entrepreneur Alan Bond. The mine site is currently owned by Pluton Resources, but is approaching economic closure.

Visit Cockatoo Island

Twin narrow gaps in a corner of Talbot Bay separate a series of double bays. Extreme tidal whirlpools develop around the gaps, making for a thrilling dinghy ride. Further east, Cyclone Creek displays geological marvels including cliffs of pressure-folded rock, fault-lines and a wall of conglomerate.

The Horizontal Falls are one of Australia's most remarkable natural phenomena — and one of the Kimberley's most iconic destinations. As tides shift up to 10 metres twice daily, billions of litres of seawater are forced through the twin gaps at extraordinary speed, creating a visible difference in water level between each bay. The result is a waterfall running sideways — a spectacle that has to be seen to be believed.

Getting up close by dinghy is one of the most exhilarating moments on any Kimberley cruise. The power of the tidal surge, the churning whirlpools, and the sheer scale of the event leave a lasting impression on every guest who experiences it.

The Horizontal Falls sit within the Buccaneer Archipelago and are heritage listed, recognised for their outstanding natural significance. Combined with the geological wonders of Cyclone Creek, this corner of Talbot Bay represents the Kimberley at its most raw and dramatic.

Visit Horizontal Falls

Secure Bay view as a narrow scenic passage

In reality, Secure Bay is two bays, connected by a narrow scenic passage with a spectacular tide-race and whirlpool. The inner bay features a stark black hillside of dolerite boulders with spinifex ‘stripes’, as well as vast areas of mangrove habitat.

Visit Secure Bay

At sixty kilometres in length, Walcott Inlet is fed by the Calder, Charnley and Isdell Rivers. Only the beautiful Isdell Gorge is accessible to dinghies on spring tides. Yule Entrance, at the mouth of the inlet, has one of the most formidable tidal whirlpools on the planet.

Visit Walcott Inlet

Traversed en route to Raft Point and Montgomery Reef, our track typically passes the Kingfisher Islands in the centre of the Bay. The Kingfisher Islands are noted for their pink-hued cliffs, stone barrier beaches and fishing opportunities.

Visit Collier Bay

Red Cone Ruby Falls

Crabbing at Red Cone Ruby Falls

On the eastern shore of Doubtful Bay, a vast area of mangrove-lined creeks surrounds a conical hill. Behind here, Ruby Falls plunges into a narrow gorge, above which are a string of beautiful billabongs, ideal for a swim. Red Cone Creek is noted for its mud crabs and fishing.

Visit Red Cone Creek, Ruby Falls

Named by John Lort Stokes RN of HMS Beagle in 1838 due to his uncertainty as to whether or not the bay led to the Glenelg River, which had just been found by George Grey travelling overland. This area has many scenic and fishing attractions.

Visit Doubtful Bay

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Montgomery Reef, Kimberley from scenic helicopeter flight

Covering an astounding 280 square kilometres, this reef seems to miraculously rise out of the sea – such is the size of its tides. Draining seawater pours continuously over the reef edge, particularly along the spectacular reef channel. Turtles, schools of surgeon-fish and reef egrets abound. Marine biologist Barry Wilson theorises that the reef has grown on top of a drowned sandstone mesa, making it truly one of a kind.

Visit Montgomery Reef

Once the largest pearl farm in the world, this remote settlement is now abandoned. It was here in the 1950s that the first South Sea cultured pearls were produced by Pearls Pty Ltd, laying the foundation of a multi-million dollar industry.

Visit Kuri Bay

Lending its name to WA’s newest marine park, this area is the principal focus for breeding humpback whales. WA has the world’s largest population. These leviathans arrive in June, typically calving in July-August, before making their way back to Antarctic waters.

Visit Camden Sound

Bounded by a long rainforest escarpment on its western side, this area is noted for its strong tides. The whole area, including Gibson Creek, is well-regarded by fishermen.

Visit George Water

Fishing Expedition

Fishing at Glenelg River as part of Kimberley Cruises - Kimberley Quest

Swamps along the river’s upper reaches provide an important breeding area for saltwater crocodiles. This area was a personal favourite of the late Malcolm Douglas. The Glenelg River has a near-legendary status among barramundi fishermen.

Visit Glenelg River

Fishing Expedition

With an impressive 80 metre drop, ‘Cathedral Falls’ boasts an amphitheatre of vertical cliffs surrounding a circular plunge-pool. Accessible only on spring tides by dinghy, through a narrow corridor of mangroves.

Visit Cathedral Falls

This iconic waterfall is renowned for its beautiful stepped terraces, graced with delicate grasses and lush ferns. It was named after Lieutenant Phillip Parker King RN, who sketched the site in 1820. Tragedy struck in 1987 when a young American woman, Ginger Meadows, was taken by a crocodile at the base of the falls. Much safer swimming in crystal-clear pools lies upstream of the Cascade.

Visit King Cascade

This was the scene of a disastrous agricultural settlement in 1864-1865, based on Merino sheep. Stone ruins and an island cemetery can still be seen. Delicious rock oysters abound. Opposite is Augustus Island, which at 17,950 hectares, is the largest island on the Kimberley coast.

Visit Camden Harbour, Sheep Island, Deception Bay

This is a major tributary of the Prince Regent River, flowing in on its southern bank. Above tidal rapids, accessible by dinghy, weeping paperbark trees line tranquil billabongs. An energetic walk leads to a spectacular waterfall with a natural swimming pool.

Visit Camp Creek

By dinghy on spring tides, it is possible to view the spectacular gorge of the Roe River upstream to its confluence with the Moran River. This was the spot reached by Joseph Bradshaw in his epic horseback trek from Wyndham in 1891. The Roe estuary is famed for its many large crocodiles, birdlife and excellent fishing. PLEASE NOTE: NOT VISITED ON 14 DAY VOYAGES BROOME TO WYNDHAM OR VICE VERSA.

Visit Roe River

Following a fault-line trending southeast, the 104 km river runs remarkably straight, giving it a unique character. Keep an eye out for rare snubfin dolphins, which live in the estuary. Almost the whole catchment is conserved in the Prince Regent National Park: one of the great wilderness areas of Australia.

Visit Prince Regent River

The Kimberley’s magnificent ‘inland sea’ is studded with scenic islands. The Basin supports the largest area of mangrove habitat in the southern hemisphere. Spitfire Creek and the Southern Arms are renowned for barra fishing.

Visit St George Basin

At 391 metres, this is a stunning sandstone mesa, which dominates the landscape with its dramatic silhouette. Below adjacent Mt Waterloo lies Marigui, where Joseph Bradshaw and Aeneas Gunn attempted to run sheep during the 1890s.

Visit Mount Trafalgar

A cruise down Rothsay Water offers an opportunity to fish under the majesty of Mt Trafalgar. Also home to two distinctive types of rock art known as Wandjina and Gwion Gwion styles, these two different types of rock art have very different characteristics.

Rothsay Water offers the chance to view both of these styles of ancient rock art with a tender excursion to explore the area’s many examples of artwork.

Visit Rothsay Water

Growing behind a sandy beach is an ancient boab tree with ‘HMC Mermaid 1820’ etched deeply into its twin trunks. The carving commemorates 16 days of hull and rudder repairs undertaken on the naval cutter commanded by Phillip Parker King, while charting the Kimberley coast. Groves of endemic cycads occur at the southern end of the beach.

Visit Careening Bay

Iconic, multi-tiered waterfall, located west of Mitchell Plateau Airstrip. It is Punamii-unpuu to the Wunambal people, who revere the place as the home of Creator Snakes or Wunggurr. Enjoy excellent views of the Falls on your helicopter flight to or from Mitchell Plateau Airstrip.

Visit Mitchell Falls

This spectacular estuary in the NE corner of Prince Frederick Harbour features huge cliffs, rainforests and mangroves. Our anchorage in magnificent Porosus Creek serves as the turnaround point for 7 day voyages, where guests arrive or depart by helicopter from Mitchell Plateau. PLEASE NOTE: NOT VISITED ON 14 DAY VOYAGES BROOME TO WYNDHAM OR VICE VERSA.

Visit Hunter River

Mitchell Plateau arrival and departure lounge, before being transffered to Kimberley Quest II

A woman on the plane to transfer to Kimberley Quest II

The Mitchell Plateau is a transfer point for our Northern cruises. You will either fly in from Broome before being transferred to the Kimberley Quest II via a scenic helicopter flight over Mitchell Falls; or land at Mitchell Plateau after farewelling the Kimberley Quest II and enjoying your spectacular scenic Mitchell Falls flight, before catching a flight back to Broome.

Visit Mitchell Plateau

Swift Bay as part of Kimberley Quest cruise desitnation

Named for the author of ‘Gulliver’s Travels’, this T-shaped inlet is home to a number of magnificent galleries of Wunambal rock art – including Sea Wanjinas (Gayaras), as well as ancient Gwion (Bradshaw) panels.

Visit Swift Bay

Mitchell Rive Estuary, a Kimberley Quest cruise destination

Named as recently as 1921, this was the last major Kimberley waterway to be located by surveyors. The funnel-shaped estuary is strewn with rocks and sandbanks, requiring skilful navigation. An excellent area for mud crabs, barramundi and bird-watching.

Visit Mitchell River Estuary

The long Voltaire Peninsula separates Montague Sound from Admiralty Gulf. The Cape itself is a remarkable headland of columnar basalt, which contrasts strikingly with surrounding cliffs of sandstone. There are exciting opportunities for pelagic fishing in this area.

Visit Cape Voltaire

Osborne Islands in Ardmiralty Gulf, part of Kimberley Quest cruises destination

This is a group of steep-sided volcanic islands with lush rainforests, located in Admiralty Gulf. Surrounding waters support an extensive pearl farm and a heritage-listed shipwreck, visible only at spring tides. Nearby on the mainland are several idyllic swimming spots as well as easily-accessed rock art sites.

Visit Osborn Islands

Separating Admiralty Gulf from Vansittart Bay, Bougainville Peninsula is noted for its dense rain-forested slopes, plateau-capped hills and numerous long inlets. There is excellent pelagic fishing off the cliffs and headlands.

Visit Cape Bougainville

A Mecca for rock art enthusiasts, locations such as Jar Island, Rocky Cove and Jalandal are justly famed for their fine examples of Gwion and Wanjina style panels. Less well-known is the area’s interesting heritage of Makassan campsites, used for centuries by Indonesian fishermen collecting and processing sea cucumbers (also known as trepang or beche-de-mer).

Visit Vansittart Bay

Behind a salt-pan lie the poignant remains of a US Army Air Corps Dakota, victim of a forced landing during World War II. The crew, flying from Perth to Broome, made a simple navigation error which nearly cost them their lives.

Visit DC3 Plane Wreck

Crab dish taken while crabbing at Napier Broome Bay

Napier Broome Bay is home to historic Indonesian trepang site, which gives an insight into the lives of the early Macassan fisherman, who came down to north of Australia in search of trepang – also know as bêch-de-mer , or more commonly, sea cucumber. This site stems back to the first early contact between Aboriginal tribes and the Indonesian fisherman.

It is also a great location to fish the inlets and estuaries of Barra and Mangrove Jack and try your luck at mud-crabbing.

Visit Napier Broome Bay

The third-longest river in the Kimberley is entered over shallow sandbars. Its wide estuary features a maze of channels cutting through mangrove islands, which form a delta. The area is excellent for bird-watching, barra fishing and beach-walking. Impressive tidal rapids in a low sandstone gorge can be reached after a long dinghy ride.

Visit Drysdale River

Marking the junction of the Indian Ocean with the Timor Sea, passage past here is sometimes rough. Stewart Island, lying off the Cape, is the most northerly point of Western Australia.

Visit Cape Londonderry

Named for a native plant in the citrus family, these are actually twin waterfalls at the head of a shallow bay. Nearby sandstone cliffs feature examples of Gwion style rock art.

Visit Glycomis Falls

Fringed by formidable sandstone cliffs on either side, this bay commemorates the State Ship Koolama beached here in 1942, after attack by Japanese floatplanes. The long sand-spit beach at the back of the bay disguises the entrance to the King George River.

Visit Koolama Bay

One of the most spectacular gorges in Australia, rimmed by dizzying cliffs, terminates in twin 80 metre high waterfalls. Arguably, the ultimate anchorage! Enjoy a refreshing shower on the bow, marvel at the cappuchino foam, swim in a fault-line crevice or fish for barra below East Arm Falls.

King George Falls rank among the tallest twin waterfalls in Western Australia, and the gorge that frames them is unlike anywhere else in the Kimberley. Ancient sandstone cliffs rise hundreds of metres on either side, carved over millions of years into a dramatic canyon that opens directly to the sea — accessible only by boat, which makes arriving by Kimberley cruise all the more special.

The falls are at their most powerful in the wet season aftermath, when freshwater cascades thunder down the cliff face into the tidal waters below, creating the signature cappuccino-coloured foam that fills the anchorage. It's a setting that rewards those who simply sit with it — whether from the bow of the vessel, from the water itself, or from above on a helicopter flight.

Below East Arm Falls, the fishing is exceptional. Barramundi hold in the deeper pools where freshwater meets salt, making this one of the more memorable fishing spots on any Kimberley expedition. For the swimmers, fault-line crevices in the gorge walls create natural rock pools that are as geological as they are refreshing.

King George Falls is a destination that defines what a Kimberley cruise can deliver — remote, dramatic, and entirely beyond what most people imagine Australia to look like.

Visit King George Falls

On the southern side of Koolama Bay lies this shallow inlet with a small freshwater creek and waterfall. Behind the beach and a strip of mangroves is where the survivors of the Koolama camped, before undertaking a difficult overland trek to Pago Mission.

Visit Pangali Cove

These two sites are associated with the German aviators Bertram and Klaussman. In 1932, the pair were blown off course in their seaplane Atlantis and endured starvation in the wilderness, before being found and rescued by Gwini Aborigines after 40 days.

Visit Seaplane Bay / Cape Bernier

Cambridge Gulf as part of Kimberley Cruise destination

Visit Cambridge Gulf

Hidden behind Reveley Island and a maze of sandbanks, the entrance cannot be navigated on every tide. The long, sublimely beautiful gorge has numerous side waterfalls such as Casuarina Falls and Amphitheatre Falls. Angel Falls on the eastern bank at 100 metres is the highest falls on the Kimberley coast. Fish at the rock-bar, spot a nabarlek (rock wallaby) or enjoy a refreshing swim.

Visit Berkeley River

100 km by scenic road from Wyndham, Kununurra is the largest town in the East Kimberley. Built to service the Ord River Irrigation project in the 1960s, horticultural enterprises dominate – notably sandalwood, bananas, mangoes, melons and chia seed. Visit Lake Argyle or enjoy a cruise along the Ord River.

Visit Kununurra

Kimberley Coast Cruises

Discover Australia's Last True Wilderness

The Kimberley coast of Western Australia is one of the most remote and spectacular coastlines on earth, a vast, largely inaccessible wilderness of ancient sandstone gorges, cascading waterfalls, tidal rivers, and thousands of islands. It is a region only reachable by sea or air.

04 Days

Taste of the Kimberley

Southern Kimberley highlights including the Horizontal Falls, Montgomery Reef, and the Buccaneer Archipelago.

08 Days

Southern Quest

Talbot Bay, Walcott Inlet, Montgomery Reef, King Cascades, and the Prince Regent River.

08 Days

Northern Quest

Mitchell Falls, Drysdale River, Vansittart Bay, and King George Falls. Cruise/Fly or Fly/Cruise.

10 Days

Adventure Quest

Lesser-visited islands, inlets, and hidden locations across the southern Kimberley.

11 Days

Exploration Quest

Ancient Gwion Gwion and Wandjina rock art, sea caves, wildlife, and remote river systems.

14 Days

Ultimate Quest

The full Kimberley coast between Broome and Wyndham in a single expedition.

21 Days

Beyond Adventure

The most extensive Kimberley cruise available, the definitive coastal expedition.

06 Days

Fishing Expeditions

Dedicated charters targeting barramundi, mangrove jack, mud crab, and pelagic species.

Frequently asked questions

What makes Kimberley Quest cruises unique?

Kimberley Quest cruises are designed as small-group expedition experiences, allowing guests to explore remote parts of the Kimberley that larger ships can’t access. With a maximum of just 18 guests onboard, the experience is far more personal, with flexible itineraries shaped by tides, weather, and wildlife activity rather than a fixed schedule.

What destinations are visited on a Kimberley Quest cruise?

Kimberley Quest itineraries explore some of the most remote and iconic locations along the Kimberley coastline, including areas such as Prince Regent River, Montgomery Reef, Hunter River, and King George Falls. These destinations are only accessible by boat or air and feature dramatic landscapes, waterfalls, and ancient Indigenous rock art sites.

What ship does Kimberley Quest use?

All cruises operate aboard the Kimberley Quest II, a purpose-built 25-metre expedition vessel designed specifically for navigating the Kimberley’s rivers and rugged coastline. The ship accommodates a small number of guests and is equipped for both comfort and exploration.

What activities are included during the cruise?

Kimberley Quest cruises focus on immersive, nature-based experiences. Activities typically include guided excursions by tender boats, fishing, exploring waterfalls, visiting Indigenous rock art sites, beach landings, and optional scenic helicopter flights. Each day is different, depending on conditions and wildlife opportunities.

What level of comfort and amenities can I expect onboard?

Kimberley Quest II offers a high level of comfort. Guests can expect air-conditioned cabins with ensuites, indoor and outdoor lounge areas, alfresco dining, and freshly prepared meals by an onboard chef. The vessel also features a spa and relaxing viewing areas for taking in the scenery.

How many guests can join a Kimberley Quest cruise?

Kimberley Quest cruises are limited to a maximum of 18 guests, ensuring a more intimate and personalised experience. This smaller group size allows better access to remote locations and more interaction with crew and guides.

Do you offer private charters?

Yes, Kimberley Quest offers private charter options, allowing groups to book the entire vessel. This is ideal for families, corporate groups, or special occasions, with the flexibility to tailor aspects of the itinerary and onboard experience.

How much does a Kimberley cruise cost?

Pricing varies depending on the itinerary length, season, and cabin type. Kimberley Quest cruises typically range from shorter 4-7 day expeditions to extended 14-21 day journeys, with prices generally starting from several thousand dollars per person for multi-day experiences.

When is the best time to visit the Kimberley?

The Kimberley cruise season usually runs from February to October, when weather conditions are most suitable for exploring the region. Early in the season, waterfalls are at their peak, while later months offer calmer conditions and increased wildlife sightings.

Where do Kimberley Quest cruises depart from?

Kimberley Quest cruises typically depart from Broome or Wyndham, depending on the itinerary. Some journeys travel one-way between these ports, offering a full exploration of the Kimberley coastline.