Left Eighty Mile Beach at 9.00am, a little later than normal due to deciding if we should move on after one night instead of two. We decided to leave and get up to Broome as rain was forecast for this afternoon. We continued our drive through the Great Sandy Desert up to Broome. We had booked into Cable Beach Caravan Park and after we had organised ourselves with power and drainage etc we went for a walk to look at Cable Bay beach. Another beautiful white long Sandy beach. In 1899 Cable Beach was named as a result of the telegraph wire that divides Broome and Jarva. The beach is 22kms long with its white sand and turquoise water of the Indian Ocean.
The above three photos are different landscapes again continuing through the Great Sandy Desert after leaving Eighty Mile Beach.
Arrived into Broome early afternoon. Checked into the caravan park for two nights. Then went for a walk to have a look at the beach which everyone raves over saying it is such a beautiful beach. It was a short walk from the camp but exhausting in this heat. Walked over the sand dunes and this lovely beach was before our eyes. That west coast white sand and turquoise sea.
Looking along the beach. The sand is much whiter than this picture shows. Must have been the angle of the sun. This coastline still has the very extreme high and low tides. It looks as though it is right out but it comes right up to the narrow strip of soft sand. We didn’t manage to see the high tide and would have loved to watch it coming in to see how fast it was. But of course can’t sit on the beach all day to see.
It’s now our next day, the 30th and our only full day in Broome. We got away early to drive around Broome to explore as no sun today and it was looking very threatening out at sea. We started of at Gantheaume Point and note the hole in the rock.
Broome is like a peninsular with water both sides. Sun trying to peep through but it really didn’t happen. Lots of familiar rock formations just at the point.
Looking straight out to the Indian Ocean and it is getting darker thinking the rain will hit us soon.
Think these guys might be deciding whether to go fishing or not.
Just leaving and found this rock.
Now we have gone across to Town Beach. It was quite windy on this side blowing right in. The weather still threatening. Don’t you like these huge boulders. All round this area they are using them as breakwaters as I presume the big seas come in on this side. Even though it is a dull day the water still looks turquoise. Imagine how the colour would come out with the sun on it, but that won’t happen today.
We were heading out to the long wharf in the background. When we came across this war memorial. The artwork commemorates the attack on Broome, on 3rd March 1942. It stands as a silent legacy to those who lost their lives, and the impact on this remote Australian community.
Standing on Town Beach looking along the the long wharf. It’s longer than it looks in this photo.
Now walking down towards the wharf. Note more big beautiful boulders. Lovely colours.
Close up of the rock. Change from all the red we have being seeing so much of.
Now at the end of the wharf. A bit of fishing going on. You can’t notice it but the wind has got up a lot and getting very rough but still no rain. I was talking to the little boy fishing on the left. He was so desperate to catch a fish. His dad had them booked on a charted fishing trip this morning and it was still on after some warning yesterday it could be cancelled. Then heard they had to cancel it due to the heavy seas coming in and heavy rain. He was so enthusiastic about going out on the boat and had been trying for some time on the end of the wharf to catch a fish. After we had chattered about it I told him all good things come to those who wait. Guess what he suddenly had a fish on. He was so excited, and I was so thrilled for him.
Walking back of the wharf. Clouds getting darker wind getting up.
Looking back over Town Beach. Really black now but still the water is very turquoise.
Coming off the wharf and looking up at the park and our van is sitting there in the middle.
Looking back up at the wharf.
This is looking over Roebuck Bay which contains four sunken historic flying boats shot down by the Japanese during World War ll. Apparently with the very low tides they have here, on a very low tide these planes can be seen and people go out and walk round them. But there are warnings that they must not touch the planes to preserve them.
As we were driving around Broome you could see where they are trying to improve the town and it is looking quite tidy but as soon as you leave the town centre it deteriorates. Lots of this red dust around and it gets into everything. You even feel that it’s in your clothes. Still the rain hadn’t arrived but big drops on the windscreen. Got settled back into camp, had our lunch and not long after that the rain came down and it hasn’t stopped since. Weather forecast looks terrible over at least the next five days through the Kimberleys where we are driving through for the next eight days. We were hoping for a heli flight over the Bungle Bungles on Thursday. 🤞Not paying for that if the weather is duff. We will get away early in the morning.
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