Thursday we had our antenna connection to the van fixed by a local repair man. He did a good job, and after a new TV, Antenna and connection it should all go just fine for at least a while! Someone we met suggested we really don’t need TV, but like I explained to them, this isn’t a 4 week beach holiday. We need to keep in touch with the world sometimes!
After lunch we went down and spent a couple of hours in the local museum. It focuses mainly on pearling, the bombing of Broome in WW2 and Aboriginal inhabitants. It was quite informative but on the costly side for small local museums.
Another Sunset!
At 5 o’clock we packed our chairs, a nice bottle of champagne and a few nibblies and went out to G Point to watch the sunset. It’s a bit of a Broome tradition on Cable beach, but our end of the beach was less crowded with 4WDs, camels and people. It’s the same beach we are about to go and launch the boat off right now and I love it. I’ve never walked or driven on more solid sand. Anyhow, it was a very pretty sunset over the water and rocks of the point and as usual, I took too many photos!
On Friday we had another go at Fishing off Gantheume Point and once again caught nothing. I love fishing until I've had a couple of days like that-there isn't even little fish to be caught-it's just fished our round here I reckon.
James and Beth at Broome Races
On Saturday we caught a bus at 11.55 and went to the races. The moment we arrived, we grabbed a table and chairs under a big tree, beside the bar, toilets and mounting yard. James and Beth arrived shortly after and we settled in for a very pleasant afternoon. It wasn't particularly busy according to Beth and James, but it was good fun. No one one much money (but very little was lost either). Country meetings are hard to pick at the best of times. As we were waiting for the bus, a woman said to Russ that she recognised him from Denham (they were camped beside the fish cleaning tables). Once she said that, I knew they had been camped across the road from us in Malloy too. Small world.
Today we put the boat in at the port boat ramp and tried our luck fishing for a third time. Once again no fish! It was very hot out there so we gave up after a couple of hours, came home and had lunch. After lunch we took a drive out to the very beautiful Crab Creek about 30ks out of town. You can launch boats off the beach out there, so we are going to have one more try on Tuesday. It's a bit more remote, so hopefully not as over fished as the other two spots we've tried so far.
Roebuck Bay Near Crab Creek
Tomorrow though I'm very excited as we are going out with one of Blair's workmates Jeff. We are meeting him at 9 am and will head out about 20 miles to try our luck-let's hope this trip is sucessful. He's going to show us some good spots to take our tinny and give us some crabbing tips too.
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