AROUND AUSTRALIA 2008
Saturday 10 May – Friday 6 June
Kununurra to Broome
Blog 2
In Celebrity Tree Park, the Kununurra community was holding its Teddy Bear’s Picnic for young local families down by the Lake. The kids were having a wonderful time. The Celebrity Tree Park has trees planted by celebrities over the last 10-11 years. It is a lovely idea.
We finally got to Broome a few days earlier than we had booked but were able to have a spot until our own spot became vacant. It took us a while to set up everything that we needed for our 4 month stay particularly positioning the caravan so that we could get satellite signal through an opening in the trees.
Cable Beach still has the magic that keeps drawing us back to Broome.
I joined the library, Mike joined the gym and we enrolled for some courses at the local TAFE and just became one of the thousand of winter residents.
Our first attempts to see the Dinosaur Prints in the rocks at low tide at Gantheaume Point were unsuccessful but we did see them the next low tide.
Friends arrived by plane for a 2 week holiday in Broome and we spent some lovely times exploring Broome together, Cable Beach, Gantheaume Point, restaurants, the markets and all the beautiful spots in town.
We took a trip to Horizontal Falls. A sea plane flew us from Broome over King Sound to Talbot Lake where we were picked up by a motor boat and taken through the wider opening of the Horizontal Falls. What a buzz it was. The water was like being churned in a washing machine. There are 2 falls, the second one has a narrower opening and we didn’t go through that. We found out later that they used to go through both but last year one of the boats capsized and a woman drowned even with her life jacket on!!! The falls are caused by the huge and rapidly moving tides causing the water levels on either side of the openings to be different at certain times in the tidal cycle. It is quite spectacular. The water and sky are VERY blue and the rocks look like quartz outcrops. We spent the rest of the afternoon on a yatch enjoying lunch and the quiet. We flew back home over the 1000 Island Buccaneer Archipelago, over cape Leveque, Lombadina, Beagle Bay and then finally over Cable Beach. What a spectacular sight it was.
Saturday 10 May – Friday 6 June
Kununurra to Broome
Blog 2
In Celebrity Tree Park, the Kununurra community was holding its Teddy Bear’s Picnic for young local families down by the Lake. The kids were having a wonderful time. The Celebrity Tree Park has trees planted by celebrities over the last 10-11 years. It is a lovely idea.
We finally got to Broome a few days earlier than we had booked but were able to have a spot until our own spot became vacant. It took us a while to set up everything that we needed for our 4 month stay particularly positioning the caravan so that we could get satellite signal through an opening in the trees.
Cable Beach still has the magic that keeps drawing us back to Broome.
I joined the library, Mike joined the gym and we enrolled for some courses at the local TAFE and just became one of the thousand of winter residents.
Our first attempts to see the Dinosaur Prints in the rocks at low tide at Gantheaume Point were unsuccessful but we did see them the next low tide.
Friends arrived by plane for a 2 week holiday in Broome and we spent some lovely times exploring Broome together, Cable Beach, Gantheaume Point, restaurants, the markets and all the beautiful spots in town.
We took a trip to Horizontal Falls. A sea plane flew us from Broome over King Sound to Talbot Lake where we were picked up by a motor boat and taken through the wider opening of the Horizontal Falls. What a buzz it was. The water was like being churned in a washing machine. There are 2 falls, the second one has a narrower opening and we didn’t go through that. We found out later that they used to go through both but last year one of the boats capsized and a woman drowned even with her life jacket on!!! The falls are caused by the huge and rapidly moving tides causing the water levels on either side of the openings to be different at certain times in the tidal cycle. It is quite spectacular. The water and sky are VERY blue and the rocks look like quartz outcrops. We spent the rest of the afternoon on a yatch enjoying lunch and the quiet. We flew back home over the 1000 Island Buccaneer Archipelago, over cape Leveque, Lombadina, Beagle Bay and then finally over Cable Beach. What a spectacular sight it was.
