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26/06/2005: "BROOME ......Western Australia"

I took a bicycle along for the ride. There's only one hill at Broome. The town is flat for miles around. For a month I hardly used the car. A bike ride along Cable Beach is possible - a few soft patches though. The camel rides are a daily dusk event at Cable Beach for the tourists not the regulars. Semi-open air movies at Chinatown are worthwhile, but not cheap. It was the Sun Picture Gardens (cinema) where I rescued a kitten from certain death - during the previous visit...which led to a whole heaps of cicumstances described elsewhere in the archives.....anyway Broome is a good place to be at this time of year......if you can find a tent site. Otherwise be earlier next year. Blue sky and rarely a drop of rain for months. The blue water is cool. Kids sleep on the beach - hardly any dew at night. It's all entirely different to anything on the east coast of Australia. But there are things to watch out for too.