Broome 1

Hi, we left Darwin on Sunday 20/9 and arrived in Broome on Friday 25/9.  Fairly long haul, but we have been in Broome now for 6 days and are really enjoying ourselves. The weather has been high 30's, but the humidity hasn't been to bad here, unlike Darwin. We are pretty much acclimatised  now so it doesn't bother us too much. Below are some pictures on the road from Hall's Creek to Broome. The west Kimberleys are different to the Eastern K's, but the landscape is fascinating.

 Below, we pulled into a truck stop and found this memorial, we thought the wording on it was very moving, especially the first and last lines

 A very nice photo of my left fingertip! Crossing the Fitzroy River at the town of Fitzroy Crossing

 Above and below, the biggest Boab tree we have seen so far

 Broome; Cable Beach and the port below. C/Beach has no waves and was closed for a few days this week due to a croc sighting.  There was a massive traffic jam in Broome yesterday ( by their standards ) when a croc appeared next to the town centre!  Swam up on the high tide, wiggled through a sewer and appeared in the centre of town.  We really love this town with it's pearling history, dinosaur tracks and WW2 history. I will post some more photos tomorrow including a $100,000 pearl necklace

 Looking back to Cable Beach from the point, Cable Beach is 22 kilometres long.  Below, at the point,very pretty red rocks and a startling blue sea.

 Not me!!

 Grae loves driving on the beach

 Today at 6am I went on a Hovercraft tour to see the wrecks of the Catalinas ( flying boats ) which were bombed by the Japanese in March 1942, killing about 80 people who were being evacuated from Java, via WA

 Cockpit of the hovercraft

 Catalina wrecks, about 1.5 kms out, at low tide this morning

 Another great site was the dinosaur footprints, about 25 million years  old. Unlike Winton in QLD there are no bones here because of the tides and heat. The prints are like giant elephants prints.  The guide made us stand in the prints, some pictures of people standing in them

 The picture below shows the impact of the dinosaur; the shale is level until under the print where it dips sharply downward

 More prints.  These weren't recognized as prints until 40 years ago, and not by a geologist!

Hovercraft back home.  I really had a great time on this trip, the plane wreckage's are recognized as official war graves