Saturday 29 June 2013 - Broome

Saturday 29 June 2013 - Broome

It’s time to settle down, just for a little while. We left Derby early Thursday morning after a bit of rain came through just before 4:30am. When Glenn got up to bring everything in, Sienna woke as well and didn’t really go back to sleep, so we decided to cut our losses and were on the road by 7. We got into Broome, found a caravan park and set the camper up so it could dry out. We wandered around town a bit, did a bit of shopping, hung out with our friends we’d met at Manning Gorge (Chris, Trent and their three boys Reilly, Nate and Jay) and generally got a bit of a feel for the place.

Yesterday morning Glenn got stuck into the job-hunting and before lunchtime, he’d secured work with a local electrician. We celebrated by buying Yasmin a new pair of thongs (she’d busted her old ones at El Questro and had been wearing Sienna’s since then). Glenn pulled the bikes off the camper and set them up and we rode up to the local bottle-o, where Glenn treated himself to a few gourmet beers and a lovely bottle of WA vino (no more casks for this non-unemployed bum!). For dinner, we had fish and chips with our friends but unfortunately the fish was nowhere near as good as what we caught (and still have left in the freezer) from Kalumburu.

Today we went down to Ganthaume Point to check out the dinosaur footprints. Unfortunately the low tide was still too high for them to be visible, but no big deal cause we’re here for a while. The whole area is pretty stunning and in the right light takes a magnificent photo (probably even a really good piccie even in bad lighting!). From there we went on to the Courthouse markets, where we stuffed ourselves silly on multicultural food (kebabs, spring rolls, samosas for the grown-ups, donuts and ice creams for the kids) and wandered around aimlessly for a while. We’ve come to the conclusion that we really like Broome. We’ll be here for at least six weeks, so if you think you’d like Broome too, come and visit us!