Broome

Mon July 1^st  

Another lovely day, although we had to fight the wind a bit on our way into Broome. This caused us to use more fuel than usual so we were glad to see the roadhouse on the turnoff to Broome. George estimated that he only had a litre and a half left. We put in 98 litres at 183.9 per litre – work that out! Contrary to all of the rumours, we didn’t have any trouble getting into a park, although they certainly know how to charge - $48. Our site is quite large and has good shady trees around it.

 

We went down to Cable Beach and were awestruck by the size of it. There was such a long, wide stretch of sand and the water was a clear aqua colour.  We drove down onto the sand and walked down to the water’s edge to have a paddle. The water was icy.  There were quite a few vehicles on the beach and lots of people under umbrellas on the sand, although it was nowhere near crowded and we could see km of sand with no people on it.  Not many were in the water.

 

While we were there a boat on wheels trundled down the sand into the water, took its passengers out for a few hundred metres, returned to shore and up the sand again. Broome has a huge tidal range of about 10 metres and there are lots of warnings on the beach about rips, stingers and crocodiles. There is a blackboard at one of the access points to the beach and the most recent crocodile sighting was yesterday.