Today was our last day in Broome, and we spent it relaxerizing … this is a holiday after all.
We spent the morning down at Cable Beach while the tide was low. The kids spent a bit of time playing soccer. Hannah drew some huge characterizations of each of us … including Poppie. We all had a bit of a swim and a bit of a sunbake. It’s a bit hard to relax though with the kids running around while there’s cars driving up and down the beach. Not all of them are looking out for a couple of kids…
Tags: Broome, Cable Beach
Today started after an ample sleep in until 7:30. Not bad for us gypsy folk.
We didn’t have much planned, but needed to get some washing and shopping done .. or else we’d starve and be naked. The washing was easy enough, but the shopping required a detour to the court house market.
After an unusual sleep in, the kids reluctantly got stuck into some schoolwork this morning. They may have even learnt something.
We’d planned on a morning shop and then an afternoon at the beach, but the tides ruled otherwise. So we went to the beach in the morning when the sand was at its widest. The water is pretty salty up here and this was setting off the kids eczema a little bit. Not enough to stop them body surfing and jumping the waves for a couple of hours.
Tags: Broome, Hovercraft, Matso's Brewery
Today was an interesting day. First day that I haven’t taken a photo on the trip!
You guys will just have to make do with the 1000 words instead.
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Tags: Broome
Waking up to a fog free day, we were rapidly packed up and on the road. We took the opportunity to have a quick wash of the van too before we left.
An uneventful drive saw us arrive in Broome at about 12:30 … with nowhere to stay. We’d called nearly all of the parks when we were in Port Hedland without success. All full up. A couple of fresh calls today though was successful in securing our patch of dirt for a night.
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Tags: Broome
We woke this morning bright and early to the sound of the generators around us. Quite glad to be moving this morning. Not too far, only about 100m. We’ll be closer to the loo’s and out of earshot of the gennies.
I poked my head out this morning and saw all our chairs wet. I didn’t think we had rain last night though … the whole place was engulfed in complete pea soup fog. A quick stroll down to the beach was a bit eerie and disorienting. You only needed to walk about a minute down the beach to lose all frame of reference. Luckily the fog was destined to burn off really fast.
Tags: Eighty Mile Beach
Up at 6am again and packed and on the road by 8. Starting to sound familiar?
Blake’s run of luck was continuing with him banging his head (really well) getting in and out of places three times. He also managed to stub his toe … yep … THAT toe.
Today we had 550 kms to do to get us to Eighty Mile Beach. The road was a little unknown, with some maps saying that sections were still unsealed. It turned out to be bitumen all the way on spectacular and later, boring, road until the turn off to Eighty Mile Beach.
Tags: Eighty Mile Beach
Today we woke, as usual, at 6am … since Kel had forgotten to turn off the alarm. First thing we noticed was that the fridge temp was a bit warm … since we we’re out of gas. “No problem”, thinks I, “we’ve got 2 gas bottles”. Typically, swapping over to the second gas bottle I discovered a leak somewhere in that side of the system. This meant physically swapping the gas bottles over which also meant folding up the bed to get to it. Morning exercise with variety in Karajini…
A quick brekky and hike preparations saw us ready to get stuck into the other major gorge system of Karajini, Weano Gorge. We were just getting ready to leave when Blake let out a scream.
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Tags: Karajini
We got up fairly early and headed the 100km into Karajini National Park. I’d thought that the roads were all dirt in here, but we were on bitumen all the way up to the campground itself. We did an extremely basic setup, pretty much just popped the roof and got the fridge going on gas.
We were keen to get stuck into the various walks around the area. A quick discussion soon had a route mapped out and off we went. All the trails are graded 1 to 6. Class 6 requires rockclimbing and/or abseiling equipment. The others decrease in difficulty until the easiest, in here, is a class 2. A class 2 is just a walk through the bush with a few obstacles on marked trails.
We were in Dales Campground, Cockatoo Loop section, due to wanting to use a generator. We walked from there down to the Fortesque Falls Carpark and then took the class 3 trail down to the falls themselves.
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Tags: Karajini
Only a single day in Tom Price … but we’re here a day earlier than expected too. That means we’ve got a day up our sleeve to use before we get to Broome. So an extra night at Karajini, 80 mile beach or Broome. It has to happen somewhere, so we’ll see what happens.
Today we had booked a mine tour … at 3pm. What else can you do in a drinking town with a mining problem? Plenty actually. We settled on checking out a few lookouts and sights as there weren’t really many other activities that caught our attention.
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