We arrived in Broome after a 400k drive, that I spent
half of in the back of the car with Jacob,while Nate was in the front with Doug. Jacob and I watched a movie and Nate talked with Doug about the 4wd drive he is going to buy and where
all of the good 4wd areas are. He has
not stopped talking about 4w driving since he got some 4wd books from the
laundry in Kununurra. People leave what they don’t want in the laundries in
caravan parks. We have got some good stuff from different laundries around the
country. We had done a couple of long
days in the car and I was getting a bit bored in the front. (sorry Dougie nothing
against you). Anyway, I don’t know if I
will be able to do it for too long as the old car sickness started to set in
and Jacob was annoying me, and me him, and we were arguing and consequently kept
getting into trouble from the driver.
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| This is why I get bored sometimes. |
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| Nate enjoying the front with Doug. |
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| Whilst Jacob and I watch a movie. |
Driving into Broome it looked like there was a fire, which
we later found out it was just fog.
Apparently around this time of year it’s fairly common and more so in
the Cable Beach area. The next couple of
mornings we woke up to fog that cleared by mid morning.
We ended up spending 9 nights in Broome. So it was sort of like a little holiday within
the trip. We did the touristy things and spent a lot of time on the beach.
Cable beach was so picturesque with its turquoise water and white sand that
seemed to go on for ever. We did have
some jelly fish blow in for a couple of days that kept us out of the
water. While they did sting it wasn’t severe,
it was just a bit uncomfortable. Also
Town beach was very nice but we didn’t do any swimming there as there was
rumoured to be a rogue salt water croc in residence.
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| The picturesque Cable Beach where I went walking every morning. |
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| Town Beach |
One of the must-sees in Broome is checking out the dinosaur
prints at Gantheaume Point. They are
over 120 million years old. There were about 30 odd people on the rocks at low
tide trying to find some of the prints and guess who found them, me. We also saw another celebrity this time a kid’s
presenter off ABC3 Kane Tremells. He was
filming a show called 3 on 3 Extreme. The boys were pretty excited with
that. Gantheaume Point has amazing rock
formations in vibrant colours. The red, orange and browns of the rocks against
the blue sky and turquoise water were just magnificent. We only had thongs on
so they were a few falls on the slipper rocks.
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| Walking out to Gantheaume Point |
We decided to drive onto the beach at Cable Beach on the
morning of our camel ride. It was a
little tricky going over the rocks. A
lot of the sand was moved in Broome’s last big storm causing a lot of the rock
to be exposed. We drove up the beach a little coming across some nudist’s. That
side of the rocks is a known nudist hang out (pun intended). We had to avert our gaze on a number of
occasions mainly because it would seem all nudists are over 60. The camel ride was pretty
fun. They were very noisy when everyone
was getting onto them but they did settle down once they got walking. I was a bit
scared when they stood up and sat down as you end up leaning right forward.
Broome town was founded around the pearling industry. There
were a few tours we could have done to learn about the pearling industry but, with
money tight at the moment, we decided against them. Instead we managed to find out an awful lot
by visiting pearl jewellery shops and asking a lot of questions. We did visit
Willie Creek Farm and listened in on some tour, just by standing discretely
close. There was also a free talk in one
of the shops. At this talk an oyster was to be opened and you could actually
buy a raffle ticket to win whatever was inside. The insuring pearl was a decent
size with medium grade quality and said to be worth about $350. I bought a
ticket for $20 and guess what - I didn’t win.
You did have to purchase your ticket before the pearl was opened. I ended up with some drop pearl earrings instead.
While in Broome we arranged with Jacob’s
teacher from home to skype with his class.
It was good for Jacob to be able to see his class mates. Technology is amazing.
We love Broome with
it’s beautiful beaches and town and I can see why people stop and decide to
live here for a while.
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Sunset at Cable Beach
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