Day 3 - Broome

Cable beach

Colour of rocks here

Desire

Lu

Tiny the camel

Day 3 amidst reports of dark clouds and continued storms on the east coast Marilu and I sit at Zanders for breakfast under an azure sky and a never ending aquamarine coastline. This is a spot for the wealthy slumming it, also there are many foreign accents - no doubt Broome has made it to the a good spot on the aussie map. The town is speckled with pearl sellers - and the chinese junk pearl boats work long hours off the coast. The beach is ice white and is packed but no -one in the sea, they are waitng for the wind to change and drive the box jelly fish off shore because if those criters get you , you are toast - we unpack Desire, and restock with supplies Lu has bought rusks at Cape to Cairo in Perth. I open the Bonnet to look at her chest, Nic talks me thru the fluid levels on the phone. Ok we know this baby.

This is a pretty town, tropical and lush - yet strangely sparse. The earth is red. Lu and I go for a drink, its so hot the hotel has sprinklers that spray a fine mist over guests sipping near frozen beers. At 4 we go for a sunset ride on the camels at Cable Beach. We make friends with Tiny the camel. He zig zags his way onto his feet, the camels bark and grunt as we start our walk. They all have very different faces and each has its own charector. On the way back, the sun sets and what we show you here must be one of the most photgraphed sunsets on the planet. The beach is wide and flat, the wind has turned the swimmers are in the surf many 4X4 descend on the beach fishermen, swimmers, surfers, all to watch the sunset.

Tomorrow we leave this place and we will be back. My lasting impression is the Outback Architecture, clean lines built with mostly Corrugated Iron. - something I will bear n mind when we build on the farm. The corrugated iron looks good with wood trimmings and large windows. The landscape is similar, everything is outsize, the horison is wide, the beaches are long and uninteruppted- the blue sky goes forever.