According to my Brother-in-law Pete, they considered Broome to be about halfway. If that's the case, we'll be about 18 months more!
Broome is a fairly sizable place with about 15,000 residents in the shire in the wet season. The population swells to about 45,000 in the dry. The wonderful winter weather makes it a popular tourist destination. It's a very important place to the local aboriginal groups and in the 1880s pearling began, so it's full of interesting history.
We arrived here on Saturday and are staying in a large and crowded park in a back alley surrounded by permenants. It's a bit of a shock after the quiet of Port Smith. I started to feel like I wasn't going to enjoy it, but decided it was only for two weeks and I better like it! Saturday afternoon after setting up, we headed to Woolworths and did our shopping-it was as busy as the night before Christmas, but the shopping is now done. It was nice to run into Mike and Meg-a couple of New Zealanders we had met in Exmouth. They seem to be having a wonderful holiday too.
Sunday we headed to the local market only to find it's much bigger on Saturday! Then we went out to Cable Beach and on to Gantheaume Point where we discovered a lovely lookout back over Cable beach and a boat launching area over the very firm sand (which will make a nice change after PS and the fine silt there!)
Gantheaume Point
Feeling much happier, we came home and made up the trailer, took the boat off the car and are ready to go fishing and siteseeing today. Then last night we took the bus to town for the Grand sm of $4.30 combined and met our friends James and Beth at the boutique brewery Matsos (overlooking Roebuck Bay) for a very good curry night. It was great to catch up with them and nice to think we will have lots of opportunities to see them again in the next two weeks. Tuesday we are going to their park as they have a pizza man visit everyweek dragging his portable wood fired oven behind him to the park. Saturday we are all off to Broome races and Sunday I think we are going to the Crab Races and $12 roast with them.
Town Beach and Boat Ramp at Low Tide(be careful of the resident croc!)
This morning, we bit the bullet and booked a three day cruise around the Buchaneer Archipeligo. We leave Derby and travel by seaplane via Cape Leveque out to a 65 metre yacht moored in the archipeligo near the Horizontal Waterfall. The trip is restricted to 10 people and at the moment, 6 of us have booked. We had been toying with the idea of a week in Bali from Darwin, but we might never get back to Boome whereas Bali should still be there! The tour was double the cost of the half day one and has all meals included with drinks at reasonable prices.
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