{"id":4296,"date":"2009-10-05T14:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/?p=4296"},"modified":"2009-10-05T14:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T14:56:00","slug":"truly-getting-up-close-and-personal-on-true-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2009\/10\/truly-getting-up-close-and-personal-on-true-north\/","title":{"rendered":"Truly Getting Up Close And Personal On True North"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/travmedia.com\/images\/db\/228765.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/travmedia.com\/images\/db\/228765.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>TWO adventure cruises to the famed Kimberley wilderness region in July and August next year aboard the boutique True North, will feature activities as diverse as barramundi fishing, swimming in remote billabongs, seeing indigenous cave art with onboard naturalists, nudging underneath a vast waterfall, and a coral reef that \u201crises from the ocean.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>True North will sail these two 7-night cruises from Broome to the Hunter River on July 31 and August 28 2010, carrying just 36-guests served by 20-crew.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights include witnessing the region\u2019s vast tidal movements including \u201criding the tide\u201d on the ebbing Sale River aboard True North\u2019s expedition boats, and seeing the Montgomery Reef \u201crising from the ocean\u201d \u2013 a phenomenon created when the fast-receding tide drains from the 350 square kilometre reef to expose myriad turtles, dugong, rays and other sea creatures.<\/p>\n<p>True North also explores numerous rivers and one of the Kimberley\u2019s most scenic waterways Prince Frederick Harbour, while shore excursions include the famous Wandjina rock paintings at Raft Point and the boab tree inscribed with HMC Mermaid 1820 by Captain Phillip Parker King 189 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>A helicopter is carried aboard for optional-cost sightseeing flights, a picnic at an otherwise inaccessible billabong and a \u201cChampagne Sunrise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prices start from $7799pp twin-share including all gourmet onboard dining, use of six expedition boats for shore excursions and a light aircraft transfer from the Hunter River to Kununurra; air fares are additional. For full details phone 1300 369 848 or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecruising.travel\/\">www.ecruising.travel<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TWO adventure cruises to the famed Kimberley wilderness region in July and August next year aboard the boutique True North, will feature activities as diverse as barramundi fishing, swimming in remote billabongs, seeing indigenous cave art with onboard naturalists, nudging underneath a vast waterfall, and a coral reef that \u201crises from the ocean.\u201d True North [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3,328],"class_list":["post-4296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-ecruising","tag-true-north"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296","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=4296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}