Kimberley Adventure Trailer Sailing Berkeley River to Darwin

The final video of our Kimberley adventure. We leave Koolama Bay to catch the last of the flood tide before battling the tide and anchoring behind Eric Island short of the Berkeley River. In the morning we sail on to the Berkeley a cross the sand bar and motor upstream to Casuarina falls. We find superb swimming holes and aboriginal rock art above the falls. Heading further upstream we head for the rock bar at the end of the navigable water visiting the amphitheater and the perennial falls along the way. On our final day we head downstream to shower at Casuarina falls once more before exploring Pauls Creek and then reading Neringa for the 3 day 2 night crossing of Bonaparte Gulf the next day. We depart at 2am the following day to cross the bar at high tide and make the most of the ebb for the first 6 hours. Grib files show promising conditions for the first 2 days but a worrying strengthening of the winds rounding into Darwin. The crossing goes to plan despite some of the roughest seas on the last day rounding the Cox Peninsular into Darwin. After retrieving the car and trailer from Derby we load Neringa after 1372 nautical miles on the water in readiness for the 5000 km road trip home.