Broome

Cable Beach...now that's what a beach should be like! None of this pebbly,rocky stuff we've seen along the way. Sandy white beach with turquoise water reminiscent of Curracloe but so much warmer you wouldn't believe!

We got to Broome shortly before midday and spent the rest of that day chilling out and sleeping since we'd been up at 3.30am to get a cab to the airport (we were told it was 45 mins away but it was more like 10). We were so early the airport wasn't even open! Flying with Qantas was cool, we went from Sydney to Melbourne and then from there to Broome - both flights had the same breakfast service which was good because it was delicious :) On arrival at the airport we tried to get a cab to take us and all of our luggage to our hostel, but the taxi refused to take us. Backpacker bashing was Una's immediate thought but the guy was just being arsey because the hostel was closer to the airport than the resort the guy behind us wanted to go to and he wanted the bigger fare. So not to be sneer at we took off on foot to show him a lesson? The heat? Why??

All checked in at the hostel we lay on our bunks wondering whether we'd have the energy to do anything at all that day when I noticed something about our room that seems a bit odd to me. Rather than just have four rooms joined and topped by the same roof, they stopped the walls about 3 feet shy of the ceiling so all the rooms are in effect joined. For noise purposes at any rate! A cacophony of snoring was expected that night and it was delivered along with chatting from a room that wasn't ours but was clearly audible..very strange!

During our 4 days in Broome we got a lot of R&R, soaked up some sun, kayaked on the ocean watching whales jumping in the distance, turtles swimming under us and I treated myself to a hovercraft tour that brought me out to see some dinosaur tracks at low tide - AMAZING!

We also saw a few movies: Dance Movie, The Proposal and My Sister's Keeper. For the second one we went to the outdoor cinema in Chinatown that's under the flight path into the airport so had planes landing all the time..it was ace!

I was really excited about seeing the Staircase to the Moon but I stupidly had the 2007 dates so we've missed out on it by 2 days :(

Overall verdict on Broome, it's a nice place but quite small. I'm not sure I could handle the heat outside of the winter temperatures we've got at the moment! Definitely worth a visit particularly if you want heavenly beaches and are in the market for pearls..sadly my budget wouldn't allow me to treat myself after the splurge on the hovercraft!