Horizontal Falls - 3

Brett and I didn’t want to waste a minute of our time at the Horizontal Falls, so we got up at 5am to enjoy a peaceful tea and coffee while the kids slept and we watched the sunrise.

After a delicious BBQ buffet breakfast, Brett was straight onto sussing out the next boat ride. Whist I was in the toilet he found driver Dan and found out which boat we were going on. Brett and the kids got themselves life jackets and lined up ensuring they were first inline, we wanted front row seats and we got them!

This boat ride through the falls was quite different to yesterday’s. Driver Dan again warned us that if we are up the front we could get wet. We didn’t pay much attention, as yesterday no one got a drop of water on them. As we approached the falls we could tell that today was a little different. We were informed that overnight there had been over a 10 meter high tide, one of the highest tides they have gotten. This meant we could not go through the second gap. At first, I was extremely disappointed. After some very fun jet boat action through the first gap and Brax getting mighty scared ( all he could manage was “ whoa, whoa, whoa! 😆) I could not stop laughing, the look on his face was hysterical. We arrived at the second gap and it was mind blowing. The water was gushing in all different directions creating whirl pools and torrents of water around us, between the gap was a waterfall drop of at least 1.5m, with a rainbow glowing over the top. You could feel the heat radiating up of the water below, and driver Dan’s warning was right, today we were not getting wet, we were getting drenched. There was water coming at us from every direction as Driver Dan inched the boat into the falls so we could get a better look. You could stay and watch the falls for hours, unfortunately the changing tides means you only have a limited amount of time before you can’t get back through the small gap to get back to the house boat.

To Brax’s dismay this meant more jet boating, of course Lachlan loved it, it was right up his alley.

By the time we got back, we were wet from head to toe, and our cheeks were sore from laughing and smiling so much.

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