{"id":13794,"date":"2011-09-29T07:49:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T07:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/cruising-the-kimberley-coast-in-comfort-2\/"},"modified":"2011-09-29T07:49:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T07:49:00","slug":"cruising-the-kimberley-coast-in-comfort-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2011\/09\/cruising-the-kimberley-coast-in-comfort-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruising the Kimberley coast in comfort"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-QWDd4hFx20k\/Tl7X9wLCEaI\/AAAAAAAAPxg\/huTEQ29tt5E\/s400\/Kimberley%252520Quest%252520II%252520in%252520Kimberley%252520Environs%252520fixed-719365.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"267\" width=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-QWDd4hFx20k\/Tl7X9wLCEaI\/AAAAAAAAPxg\/huTEQ29tt5E\/s400\/Kimberley%252520Quest%252520II%252520in%252520Kimberley%252520Environs%252520fixed-719365.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><i>James Shrimpton AAP<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The 120-tonne coastal cruiser Kimberley Quest II is not much bigger than one of 18 lifeboats aboard the world&#8217;s largest passenger ship, the 252,282-tonne Allure of the Seas.<\/p>\n<p>But we&#8217;d bet that the 25-metre-long KQ2&#8217;s 18 passengers (maximum) sailing the Kimberley coast of Western Australia would have at least as good a time &#8211; in a different way &#8211; as the 6,300 or so aboard her 360m-long &#8220;big sister&#8221; plying the western Caribbean.<\/p>\n<p>No crowded lounges, restaurants and swimming pools here, no stage shows, no casinos, no bingo and no long queues to go ashore &#8211; no making new friends the first day out then never seeing them again.<\/p>\n<p>KQ2&#8217;s voyages between Broome and Wyndham include expeditions by custom-built tenders and on bush tracks into the Kimberley Coast wilderness, a colourful and historic area of craggy rocks, waterfalls, exotic birds and animal life &#8211; and ancient rock art.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/au.totaltravel.yahoo.com\/travel-ideas\/news-opinions\/news\/a\/-\/10367523\/cruising-the-kimberley-coast-in-comfort\/\"><br \/>Read Full Story<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Shrimpton AAP The 120-tonne coastal cruiser Kimberley Quest II is not much bigger than one of 18 lifeboats aboard the world&#8217;s largest passenger ship, the 252,282-tonne Allure of the Seas. But we&#8217;d bet that the 25-metre-long KQ2&#8217;s 18 passengers (maximum) sailing the Kimberley coast of Western Australia would have at least as good a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[359],"class_list":["post-13794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-pearl-sea-coastal-cruises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}