Moonlight Bay Suites Broome

... and went to take a few swings, I challenged him to hit the kangaroo in the distance under a mango tree which he obliged and nesstled the golf ball in the tree above the kangaroo about 3 kangaroos bolted out and it was hilarious. How often do you get the chance to challenge someone to hit a kangaroo under a mango tree with a golf ball? But *****, amongst all the fun and games I left my phone somewhere, get the next day I thought.<br><br>Counldnt find the ******* thing anywhere ...

... to Kurt, Dave and the boys, and dropped our Wicked van off at the depot. After that, we walked into town and had a look around. Broome was built on the pearling industry and the mass immigration that it attracted. As such, it has a multi-cultural history - the main two streets are known as Chinatown, despite boasting only one Chinese restaurant and the town has Chinese, Japanese and Muslim cemeteries. There were lots of galleries displaying Aboriginal art and ...

... holes are found in the rocks so when the water comes up petty high you would see them.<br>Home we headed getting dark now.<br>In the mornng we decided to go for a good look through out the centre of town we drove around saw the markets are on both Sat and Sunday mornings til 1pm. There is a Prison in the middle of the town (strange place to have it) many many pearl shops here to purchase all shape and size pearls ranging from $10 ...

... repellent did not aid my itchy desperation and I seriously considered sleeping on the camp chair for the remaining hours of darkness. Upon sunrise and inspection within the tent, we had been (un)ceremoniously invaded by tiny brown ants (called Singapore Ants) that had eaten through the tent's canvass groundsheet and had raided our food boxes (the Deb instant potato mix in particular - and yes, unbelievably still on the ...

... over the saddle as I thought my hips were locking up but all was good!  The sunset was really great as well so another thing I would recommend doing if you come to Broome.<br><br>Mary and Ronnie leave on Thursday and we leave on Monday 14th so I might not blog again until we get to Point Samson and then I might not be able to get a signal so might be out of contact for a while.<br><br>Photos will be up soon on Steve&#8217;s Picasa site:  http://picasaweb.google.com/SteveGoddar d1<br><br><br>

Exmouth to Kinjari July 12th<br><br><br><br>This is a long leg about 800kms in total, the difficulty is knowing where to stop, there is no camp site on the route just one rather scruffy looking roadhouse which offers very unsavoury accommodation and two rest areas where one can pull of the road to spend the night. I reached the second rest area at about 2.45pm which seemed too early to stop so decided to press on making a slight detour to Tom Price, a town built purely to service the ...

... Yum.<br><br>We organised ourselves a little cruise on Willie for the afternoon. Willie is a square rigged two mast pearl lugger. On the boat around 2:30pm &#8211; picked up and to be delivered home so no worries about drinking and driving. Magnificent afternoon, eating, drinking, swim and boom netting and watching the sun set &#8211; really relaxing. It took the girls a little while not to panick and to find their sea ...

... the thing is that I am not sure he was joking!!!... ;o) that got me laughing.<br><br>And here I am in Broome - still really warm. I get to my hostel late that night and I head off early the next morning on my next trip!... the group looks like a good one and true enough the next 10 days were a blast with them! <br><br>We did so many different things I won't go into detail... let me just say that the West coast is SO worth the detour. <br><br>We went down the Gorges in the Karijini ...

... to drive down later that morning. We take both Lucy and Sophie with us while Craig &amp; Jill deal with a maintenance issue with the van and wait for the tradesman, Max had left earlier with Matt, Joden &amp; Flynn. We hadn't got around to swapping phone numbers with either The McCorkindales or The Lavis's and we hastily organised to meet them somewhere in amongst it all.<br><br> Greg and I were over walking around not enjoying ourselves in the heat and humidity at the ...

... amp; looked like they were settling in for the rest of the dry season! We got into Broome about lunchtime &amp; found the Park where Paul had set up. Swam &amp; lay in the sun on famous Cable Beach (life's hard). Cable is beautiful. Very similar to 80 Mile Beach, bit I would have to say that I preferred both Gordon Bay &amp; Barnhill. Today (Wednesday) Graham &amp; I caught the bus into Old Broome &amp; Chinatown &amp; had a good luck around. Nana Kay arrived back at lunchtime ...