Broome, Australia Travel Blogs

The Gauntlet
Dec 11, 2007

... get a visa by the time your leaving Los Angeles.  If you don't get one your screwed. They won't let you into Australia. Sucker. Dear Paula, OK, I think I'm gonna cry from pure stress but thats fine. In fact, thats goddamn sexy. I thrive on& ...

Not quite scooterless
Jun 22, 2007 (24 photos)

... was too!! The French toast was also divine and the diet will start tomorrow.   One of the best things about Australia Tourist Information Centres is the quality of the town maps and information you can get totally free - unlike Europe where the ...

I need a holiday.
Jun 21, 2007 (4 photos)

... book the next holiday.  Thus, 10 months later, we are on another plane, crossing the fabulous continent of Australia, beginning our next adventure - albeit scooterless. I last visited the Northern Territory in 1989 and have always wanted to show ...

Welcome to The Tropics
Dec 3, 2004 (8 photos)

... (much appreciated after hostels) which was my Birthday present to Jason. However luxury it was though they couldn't keep out Broome's enormous-flying -bug population! (Photo 8). Hope you are all well and keep the e-mails coming, we love to hear news ...

Broome
May 3, 2008 (8 photos)

...   Broome (or as my slightly confused three year-old niece referred to it as "Sweeping"!?!) is home to one of Australia's finest beaches - Cable Beach. The dramatic coastline and golden sand, lapped by the inviting waters of the Indian Ocean didn't ...

Monkey Mia to Broome - in the wet!
Feb 1, 2006 (7 photos)

... they had ever HEARD of Western Australia - many haven't! We got to see the dolphins at close range on a beautiful clear hot sunny Australia day and enjoyed the experience again. From Monkey Mia it was quite a drive up to Carnarvon where we camped at a ...

Karijni NP to 215km south-west of Broome - Day 204
Sep 13, 2008 (14 photos)

... . 750km drive today, longest day on the road so far. Karijini National park to Port Hedland, then 400km up the coast towards Broome. In the next week or so there maybe a couple of long driving days required, especially on the run to Alice Springs. 37 ...

Australia - Broome
Apr 27, 2006 (38 photos)

... Cable Beach (PICS) while we left it to do its work. Cable beach has a big reputation and is considered to be Australia's most popular and beautiful beach....we beg to differ. After the hype and build up from other tourists and literature it turned out ...

G.O. W.A.
Sep 29, 2004 (7 photos)

... it'll be brilliant. I think it could rival the sales of the Holy Bible (but of course her book will be non-fiction). Broome seems good. Reminds me of Myrtle Beach (which doesn't really paint a good picture I know). We've already bumped in to one of ...

Broome....At the top of the west coast
Oct 12, 2006 (5 photos)

... , yesterday we drove from Exmouth to Port Headland and then this morning set off bright and early to here...Broome. After just over a week in Australia we have made a few worthy observations! First and foremost how big this country really is! Everyone ...

Broome to Perth and getting stranded on the way!
Feb 24, 2006 (14 photos)

... then take the Marble Bar Road. After having fantastic sausage rolls at Pardo roadhouse, we reached Marble Bar, the hottest town in Australia, with no problems and only minor river crossings but found out when we got to town that the road had closed behind ...

Broome - Day 205
Sep 14, 2008 (10 photos)

... of the blue sky, turquoise water and deep-red stone. I started a 240km drive in the late afternoon on the Great Northern Highway in the direction of Fitzroy Crossing in the Kimberly. Many people say that the Kimberly is Australia's last real frontier.

"Sweeping up...!"
Jun 16, 2005 (26 photos)

... thing was it didn't stop raining for the next 3 DAYS! When I say rain I mean 'tropical' downpour! The West coast of Australia really hasn't been nice to us! Observant readers of this will realise that this meant it pissed down on my birthday, the 18th! ...

Beach Time!
Oct 16, 2003 (7 photos)

... . We had a fab time looking round Roebourne, Cossack and Point Samson. They are some of the oldest settlements in Western Australia, and it was really interesting to think of how the first settlers must have felt upon arrival in this harsh, unforgiving ...

Feeling Hot
Oct 3, 2004

... in fresh water, since some days we were swimming in three different spots. I love the North-West portion of Australia, it's absolutely beautiful, I have not been disappointed. The fresh water swimming holes in the North have been so clean and clear. I've ...

Broome And Sunset Runs With Camels On Cable Beach
Oct 30, 2006 (10 photos)

... a day to drive it back for them.Tried to book with Wicked campers only to be blown out and basically left facing staying in Broome waiting for a campervan for weeks till we got an email from a welsh couple whod set up a 4x4 cruiser company and had a ...

Broome
Dec 14, 2004 (2 photos)

Next stop Broome and the famed cable beach. Cable beach is so named as this is where the undersea cable connecting Australia to the outside world came ashore. Cable beach is now used for camel safaris and is popular with those wishing to take in a ...

Broome
Jun 8, 2008 (10 photos)

Broome ist das Synonym fuer exotische, tropische Straende und Outdoor-Action. Aussies setzen jedenfalls eine ganz vertraeumte Miene auf, wenn sie davon hoeren. Wer hier nicht ausspannen kann, dem hilft nur noch Therapie.

Bit of a let down
Nov 13, 2007 (3 photos)

... and cleaned the kitchen floor.  I did a nice run along the sand dunes but apart from that was pretty bored in Broome. Eventually I managed to organise hiring a car with Suzie from my Kimberleys trip and another German, Matthias who I'd met in the ...

Day 158-169 Broome
Jun 6, 2009 (15 photos)

... from anyone's specific behaviour at the Roey - (what happens at camp stays on camp!) Greg and Max attended Friday night footy Broome style- one of several aboriginal community teams versus one of the town teams. He loved watching the raw talent of the ...

Mini-break in Broome
Nov 29, 2008

... it's not bigger. You can see why people get sucked in and stay there for months. We also went to see the movie Australia that night in their heritage outdoor movie theatre. You sit on really uncomfortable deck chairs and watch bats fly past, quite a ...

Broome to Darwin
Nov 13, 2006

... !) for the last few weeks. First was my trip from Broome to Darwin, through the Kimberleys, the most remote area of Australia. Despite the closure of a few sights due to the rainy season, this trip was nothing short of awesome and made more so by ...

made it to broome
May 15, 2006

a quite little town

Hallo Broom
Sep 2, 2008

... zurecht, um das Diggeridoo spielen zu lernen. Trotzdem schaffe ich es nicht, vor Einbruch der Dunkelheit in Broome anzukommen. Doch der durch die Buschfeuer bedingte, feuerrote Sonnenuntergang war schon die Fahrt wert. Nachts fahre ich vorsichtig mit ...

Barn Hill Station
Oct 24, 2006 (8 photos)

BARN HILL STATION (24-26 October 2006)   This place is on the cover of the Camps 3 book, so we thought gosh it must be a nice place to go.  It is more of a photographers dream because it is like the sand meets the desert.  The caretaker ...

80 Mile Beach & Broome
Sep 2, 2007 (11 photos)

... with an Aussie (no) rules game on  was a welcome way to spend the afternoon. Have been in Broome for 4 days now, leaving tomorrow and heading further north still to Darwin. it's already close to 30 degrees and rising ...

Day 154-158 Barn Hill
Jun 5, 2009 (10 photos)

... are in Broome will make up our small celebration. The kids are really excited and are calling it a party!! We pack quickly and leave for Broome early Thursday morning (our unofficial halfway mark -158 days)expecting to stay at Cable Beach Caravan Park.....

Malcom Douglas' Wildlife park
Nov 4, 2009 (3 photos)

These are some older photo's that we took in Broome at a wildlife park. It was an awesome expirience getting right up next to big saltwater crocs and seeing up close all native wildlife you only catch a glimpse of in the wild.

Broome
Jun 8, 2007

Had an interesting time during the few days we stayed in Broome.  No off licences will sell boxed wine (they call it goon!) after 6pm because they're trying to prevent the aboriginies from causing too much trouble in their comatose state.  ...

Darwin to Broome Roadtrip
May 27, 2007 (51 photos)

... cane toads. Cane toads were introduced in the 1930's and are an alien species that has no natural predators and has spread throughout Australia and killed off quite a few species. It's seems to be encouraged to run them over although it will hardly make a ...