Broome

So we travelled the very boring 600+ km south to Broome from Derby with a couple of free camps on the way.  Broome is a bit of a funny town in my mind - I think it has grown to fast and things are a bit disjointed - having said that there is a lot of history here and beach is pretty special.  We took Suzi for a big drive along cable beach late afternoon of course to get the photo that everybody knows.
 
                                        The sun going down over Cable Beach.

We had a couple of hic - ups needed a new something for the car trailer which was a three day wait - but on the good side we are at the beach and the locals say no crocodiles but I didn't see to many of them swimming, but I did.

And our other bother about Broome was it is very busy place this time of year and so the three caravan parks on the first of June  - a/ put there prices up and b/ don't take dogs anymore!!  However with a bit of a ring around there is this place called the season overflow - it is run by the PCYC and we camped on there oval - still not cheap.
Like I said the town has a long and interesting history a lot of it based around pearling.  Jim thought $22,000 for the one pearl that I liked was a little to much. But I just find anything else I liked as much so didn't get anything in the end.

The main shopping area in town is called Chinatown - interestingly it was called Japtown (the pearling industry was very Japanese based in the early days) for many years until WWII when they changed it to Chinatown.  

                     Sammie and Jim waiting for the camels to come along the beach

There are some of the old pearl luggers on show in Chinatown.