Gg in Broome

Saturday –

Our first day in Broome, Saturday, we just hung around the caravan park and had a brief look around.

Sunday –

On Sunday, we had a better look around Broome and the beaches. Just beside the caravan park we’re staying in there’s Town Beach, and 6kms down there’s Cable Beach, the main one (but I’d rather a beach without jellyfish I think ...).

Monday –

Monday night was the first night of the Staircase to the Moon. It wasn’t the best night for it; it wasn’t really dark enough, but it was still quite beautiful to see. During the day, we had another squiz at Broome and swam in the beaches ... I was until I saw the jellyfish ...

Tuesday –

That night was the proper Staircase to the Moon, including the Staircase Market (it was something like that, anyway). You should have seen the crowd! There were plenty of people there to see the Staircase to the Moon and the market ... but just as the moon came up ... a cloud blocked it from view, aw!

Wednesday –

While the boys were at Cable Beach, mum and I walked into town, where we looked around: again! Well, you can blame us, Broome is really interesting! When we came back, we found that they were having another go at the market because of the last night’s mishap ... but I don’t think it went very well. Still, they tried!!

We spotted a photo of the perfect Staircase to the Moon, it happened a few years ago and that was the most beautiful picture of the moon I’ve ever seen.

Thursday –

The boys’ fishing trip! They caught a Wolf Herring, Spanish mackerel and some little fishies, while, once again, mum and I went into Broome!!

But also we saw Blades of Glory, the one with the guy from Napoleon Dynamite in it (“ohh, that movie!!”), in (or should I say out!!) the historical Sun Pictures outdoor theatre, which is pretty much in a (quite large) backyard, like a drive-in without the cars, with the only roof a blanket of stars. I know this is very commercial, but I recommend going there immensely – it doesn’t matter if you don’t like the movie, the jets that fly over the theatre are so low it’s amazing to watch (a gasp escaped the bewildered crowd as the jet flew gracefully over)!!

Friday –

This morning, Noah and the boy next door, Django, found a coconut lying in the middle of one of the caravan park roads and Noah had a mad attempt at opening it with the axe. He was successful, and somehow managed to slice the remaining pieces of coconut (the edible stuff, not the milk though) into two so Django had a bit and we shared a bit, but the problem was it was off, and only Django liked it, so in the end Django (who’s four, by the way) had a whole coconut to himself!!

Anyway, at the moment it’s lunch time (two o’clock to Melbournians) so I’d better go eat my soup, but at three o’clock, your five o’clock for all you people in Melbourne, mum and I will be sitting on camels, striding along the beach, and then later on all of us will be bunched up in a huddle, watching the sunset. I know it sounds kind of boring, but over here sunset is quite a tourist attraction!!