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Part Two

Well here we are having just collected our hire car at Broome Airport. After packing our bags into the Ford’s boot we next went for a quick drive through the Broome streets to familiarise ourselves with our new north west country town environment. Now Broome Airport is unusual in that it is smack bang right in the middle of Broome, and the drive from the airport into Broome took only a couple of minutes.

Famous Cable Beach – Pristine White Sands

All those millions of hectares of empty red soil, and the powers that be, many years ago, built the airport almost in the centre of town.

The building structures in the town looked almost makeshift. Being apparently constructed of a type of cyclone proof, corrugated iron sheeting. Very different to the brick, concrete and tile structures we were accustomed to a couple of thousand kilometres back down south in Perth.

Anyway Broome certainly exudes it’s own unusual brand of beauty and charm in the form of unusual, mainly single story shops, a couple of great Aussie style pubs, a few enchantingly cool arcades full of cafes and restuarants and…well more about all that later. Can you see that Broome was growing on us as the culture shock began to wear off?

One Street of the Broome Shopping Precint

After checking out the four main streets of Broome town, which took all of five minutes by car, we headed south to Roebuck Bay to have a look at…well….I guess it was black gooey mud. You see the tide was out. Anyway we looked at the black gooey mud of Roebuck Bay from some green lawns at Town Beach, some 5 kilometres south of Broome town. Incidentally, there is a pleasant little cafe at Town Beach, plus the large sprawling Roebuck Bay Caravan Park. All very pleasant if you enjoy caravanning or tenting?

I think I got spoilt somewhere because I am definitely a lover of a thing called “five stars”.

Town Beach subsequently also proved to be an excellent vantage point to observe the weird and spectacular natural event called ” Stairway to the Moon”, plus they have an excellent fair and stall event here a couple of times a week. More about all that great stuff later.

Town Beach – Roebuck Bay – Broome

Hold on before I forget. The name Town Beach perhaps produces a picture of an idylic beach of white sands, blue water and surf. Forget it…it’s mud banks and cockle shells. Anyway I warned you!

Have I already mentioned it was damned hot and humid? Well it was! Fortunately the hire car had air conditioning. I can assure you we had the air con on every time we used the car. It was always unpleasantly humid..and the locals reckoned this was the “cold” season!! Maybe Broome locals hate us tourists and just rub it in that we are softies from down south?

We then headed west to Cable beach, some 10 kilometres west of the town, to check into our accommodation for the week at the Seashells Resort. Now we had expected to see tropical type jungles on our drive to Cable Beach. In fact what we saw were street after street of residential areas. I was stunned at the huge amount of housing expansion since my last visit 20 years ago!

Even when the residential areas eventually fizzled out we did not see any tropical jungle. Apparently someone had stolen it, or probably it never existed other than in my mind?

Now, the next little shock was awaiting us?

Please visit in a couple of days for part Three

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