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Fall by the Side: The natural wonder of Horizontal Falls

By Neena Bhandari

Horizontal Falls (Western Australia), 03.06.2018 (The Indian Express): A starlit sky and a lone street lamp are my sole companions as I wait for the Horizontal Falls Seaplane Adventures (HFSA) tour bus outside my hotel in Broome. At 5am, the bus arrives, packed with travellers — some excited, others wary of boarding a small Cessna Amphibian seaplane.

At the airport, young Tonnia meticulously weighs us and our bags, and assigns seats, before fastening herself into the pilot seat. It is a picture-perfect day to fly low over Broome, the Dampier Peninsula, and hundreds of islands of the Buccaneer Archipelago in Australia’s pristine north-western Kimberley region.

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Ride through history, camelback

By Neena Bhandari

Broome, 29.07.2017 (The Hindu): Australia invokes images of kookaburras and cockatoos, sharks and spiders, kangaroos and koalas, but it is also home to thousands of camels.

Camels were brought into Australia from the Indian sub-continent in the 19th century for transporting material for building roads and railways, and carrying food, water, medicines and mail to the isolated and inaccessible pastoral and mining communities of the central and western regions of this arid continent.

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