Beautiful Broome

12th October

We have turned the corner and we are now at beautiful Broome. With sunshine, pearls, and palm trees.  I loved it already and we have just arrived.

Nathan had a surprise for me and organised my mum and a good friend Sophie to spend a few days with us.  It was such a surprise. We also stayed in a nice apartment and we don't have to have baked beans or noodles for a few nights, this is fantastic.

The first night had a lovely dinner at the sunset restaurant with beautiful views of Cable Beach.

The next night we surprised the girls and went on the sunset camel ride on cable beach.  These camels are part of the original camel train Ships of the Desert.

With 22 kilometres of white sand and turquoise blue water, Cable Beach is a world famous place to swim and watch the sunset into the Indian Ocean on a tropical Broome night and what better way than on a back of a camel.

Nathan also had a place of interest, which was Matsos Brew House.  We spend a lovely night trying mango Beer and Chilli Beer while eating food from the curry hut.

Also spent a night at the Sun Theatre which is in the middle of China Town.  It is the longest running out door theatre in the world.  It is also right under the flight path so the movie is interrupted a couple of times by the awesome spectacle of the aircraft seemingly only meters overhead coming in to land at Broome airport.

On our last day we spent the afternoon at Willie Creek Pearl farm for a brilliant afternoon. All the girls now want is a pearl necklace. So instead of spending $65,000 we told them the ones from the markets for $15.00 were nicer. Early evening we watched the stairway to the moon, it was a little cloudy to see.  Jade kept asking if she could climb them. Later that night we went to see some Crab Racing which seems to be a bit of a Broome tradition, our little guy didn't do very well but its all for a laugh and the proceeds go to charity.

On the way out of Broome we hear that Cable Beach has been closed due to a large crocodile making his presence felt along the beach.