Australia

Day 33 Sunday 20th May

Here we are Birthday boy!! Woke up early, as usual. Hot night low of 23 Deg. Top today of 34.
Off to the beach for a walk, went north of the rocks saw our first nudist!~! Couldn’t find the old bloke that used to roam the beach, you know elephant man!!!!!
Brenda want’s to know, why they are always old people? Where’s the bloke with the washboard Ab’s. I mentioned razor strops, but she didn’t know what I was talking about.!!
Got back to the van for our Brekkie, then off to town for something stronger to give us some relieve from these Sand Fly /Midgee bites. Got some cream and anti histamines to relieve the itch!!!
Kicked back today.
All the kids rang, caught up with lots.
Then off to dinner at cable beach, nice meal had fisherman’s basket, as we all did!!!
Back to Ricks van for coffee and Port, I keep telling you all how tough it is out here in the outback!!!
Brenda bought me some abbo clapping sticks !!! So be prepared I will be haunting everyone with them!!!
I told her I was going to buy a Didgeridoo, didn’t that get a response .
Also another hot night so Brenda says that the Aircon for the van is getting closer!!!!!!
For those interested Fuel prices in Broome:- ULP $1.48 , LPG .90cents a litre…….

Day 32 Saturday 19 May
Once again a warm night 21Deg top temp today 34deg.
Today we have to move sites, as when we originally booked it was only for 5 days, but decided to stay a couple more. Took a while though as the people in our new site were not in any hurry to go!!!!@#$%.
All moved so off to the Craft market in Broome. Some of the stuff is good some not so good!!
We also were also lucky enough to see the Navy in town. The Patrol Boat “BROOME’ had been granted the freedom of the city. So we watched that for a while(navy in the blood)!! Poor buggers though, it was really hot, the sweat was pouring off them.
Back to van for lunch( Pizza), and a swim. Then off to find a car wash. The car was still full of the red dust and mud from cape Leveque. Once again the sunset called so this time off to the hotel for cocktails. Like I keep telling you all it’s very tough here!!!!
Dinner and bed I’m a bit worn out HAHA.
Tomorrow is another day apart from that it’s my birthday, so we are all going out for dinner, tell you all about it in tomorrow’s episode!!!!!

Day 31 Friday 18 May
Another warm overnight temp of 22 deg. Made it hard to sleep soundly!!
I am off to the massage parlour today! Not what you are all thinking! I woke up yesterday with a very stiff neck. Could hardly turn the b….y thing. Persevered for a day , but didn’t get any better. So we found a place that does Shiatsu massage made a appointment with the guy. But when I got back at the time, I had a young French girl, only been in the country for 3 weeks!!!! Now that was fun!!! But she did a very good job on me!!!!! All my stiffness went, FROM MY NECK !!!!!
Anyways after the mornings excitement , we took ourselves off to a Aquaculture place run by of indigenous brethren. They used to breed a shell fish called TROCHUS. But due to the popularity of the movie Nemo, everyone wants clown fish. So Trochus got the flick, welcome clown fish!! They have trouble keeping up with demand and just for the record there is about 7 different types and colours.
Then off to a boutique brewery, had a beer called Matsumoto Blonde, Wasn’t impressed only had one then left.
We also called into the “Shell House” a kinds of shells , some quite expensive but I suppose a collector would pay their prices!!!
Once again the time had come for another Broome sunset, so off to the beach beer, wine nibbles, to watch the sun go down. It’s surprising how many people go to watch, the foreshore is packed every night!!
Sunset over back to park for a roast dinner at Rick and Tracey’s van. They have their next door neighbour from Melb up here for a week so a dinner was put on for them. Very nice too!!!!!
Mozzies and Midges were a big problem tonight not just for us but for everyone, even the “local” were complaining. Something to do with the High tide and the little bit of rain we had!!!!
Great night had lots of laughs a few good drinks. Then Rick opened the Grandfather Port, well that sealed the evening.
Off to bed very happy!!!!!!!

Day 29 Wednesday 16 May
Woke up to a very over cast day. Actually looks like rain, bugger!!!!!
The day started slow , I decided to wash the van, had lots of red dust to get off. The chores had to be done!!! Washing , cleaning and the like.
Went into China town as I must have slept awkward. I had a stiff neck that was killing me. We thought China Town they will have a massage joint . Found one but couldn’t get in until Thursday!! Oh the pain, the pain!!!!!
We had a double Decker bus tour planned for 3.00, they picked us up and off w e went. It’s amazing what you can learn on these tours. The guy( owner/ driver) was a POM, been in Broome for 21 years. Sounded like he had just got off the boat?? Great tour only problem was that it rained for most of the time. We are seriously considering to hire ourselves out as drought breakers!!!!
Back to the park caught up with Rick and Tracey, planning our day for tomorrow, possibly up to Cape Leveaque. 190 Klm’s of mostly dirt road , might just go as far as Beagle Bay and work the rest out from there. Will see how the weather looks in the AM.
Couple of wines hic! HIC! off to bed.

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Day 28 Tuesday 15th may
Woke up to an overcast day, but still, had to go for our walk! Overnight low of 21- max34Deg. Enjoyed the walk along Cable beach. Couldn’t think of a nicer place to go for a early morning walk. Thing is every man and his dog is doing the same thing!
Back to the Van for a well earned breakfast( bacon and egg sandwich).
Then off to Gantheaume Point, which is the southern tip of cable beach. The rock formations here are to be believed. It looks like layer upon layer of different coloured sand. At low tide there are fair dinkum Dinosaur footprints in the rocks.
Went back to town , fuelled up the car , as we had a Coles voucher to use( cheap skates!!!).
Back to park for a coffee and swim, to make ready for Brenda’s hair appointment at 1.30.
While Brenda was having the hair do!! I went to Macca’s to send off all the latest instalments in the travel diary. Wasn’t that fun! I asked them if they had “Hotspot” she gave me sugar!!! “No I said Telstra hotspot “no we don’t that here” I sat done and noticed on the door a sign( BIG) saying Telstra Hotspot. Brenda asked them again” The guy says I don’t know I’ll ask the boss. Finally “yes we have that but you will have to use your own PC“. I know things happen slow in the Bush but!!!!!
We decided to go on the Beach for another sunset but , the sky was overcast and not a great sunset tonight. But the booze was OK!!!!!! Put the car on Cable Beach only to be told by the ranger “you can’t park there”. Didn’t matter as I already had the Photo I wanted of My car on cable beach. They local folks (abbo’s) have claimed native title and don’t want cars on the beach!!
Well for the first time there was no happy hour@**@@##. But we were both in bed by 9.30. Pleasantly tired!!