Day 52

Day 52 Broome

Well Maureen had a quiet day today whilst I was flat out, well I should elaborate, I mean I was flat out on the bed. I was a little tired today, woke up that way, so whilst Maureen was out and about on

Cable Beach

Cable Beach

her Hog ( her Bike), I stayed in bed. She eventually returned from her travels and we sat around and discussed options. We had booked in for a hovercraft ride this afternoon at 2:30 so we had a few hours to kill. The plan was to get some stuff for lunch an find a park to eat whilst ate until it was time for our ride. As we were getting ready, Maureen said her tooth was sore and tried to show me where it was – flash backs of the crocodile park! She asked if she should have it looked at before we go, like I would know. I agreed that it might be worth a look at before we head off in case it was a bit more to it than a

People on Cable Beach

Roebuck Bay tide in

little sore. There was a dentist’s number at the park office so she gave them a call and booked in for tomorrow morning at 8:15am, so we will be here for another day, so we will leave on Saturday now.

Off we went and got some stuff from woollies for lunch. We drove to Roebuck Bay park and enjoyed some time there overlooking the bay. In early 1942 there were a dozen flying boats anchored in the bay with refugees from Indonesia when the Japanese attacked and sank them. No one really

Roebuck Bay

Roebuck Bay

knows how many died as the whole place was in chaos and no one was keeping records. The bay is beautiful and it is hard to imagine such a thing happening there.

We went around to the hovercraft place and waited for our tour. A group of school kids were there as they were having a tour, turns out they are from Derby and we had a quick chat to them. The hovercraft returned and they all went on their way and our tour was assembling when bad news came – engine problems

Hover craft

Ship at jetty

they had to cancel our tour but we have rescheduled for Friday, same time, just as well Maureen’s tooth hurt!

Whilst we were waiting to hear our tour being cancelled I rang my second cousin, I think (my mum’s cousin’s daughter) anyway Ann was up here in town and we finally were able to touch base with her and we are going to have coffee Saturday morning before we leave.  Doug rang and we are catching up for coffee later tonight. When Ann made our date, she asked if I knew where Town Beach Café was and I said, yeah no probs, like I am a local now, so I thought I had

Sacred site at Hovercraft place

Me taking an interest in local birdlife

better find this place. I was pretty sure I had seen a sign saying town beach when we had lunch and Maureen said she had seen a shopping centre not far so back we went and sure enough found Town Beach. It is also where you go to see Stairway to the Moon _ moons reflection on the sand at low tide. This apparently happens on Friday night ( no prize for guessing where we will be tomorrow ) but someone got the promotional brochures wrong as they had it down as tonight and arranged some markets. The stairway may not be happening, but the markets were.

Hovercraft

Hovercraft

 We sat around and watched them set up and it was whilst this was happening that I suddenly got old, that’s right old. There were a group of locals sitting off to one side and were generous enough to have their stereo in their car cranked right up so everyone within a 50km radius could share in their good taste in music! I must admit I did not mind the choice of music but I suddenly disliked that I had no choice if I wanted to listen to it and apart from being very loud, it was a crappy stereo! So I sat there and grizzled to Maureen about it and how unfair it was that I could not just sit in the park and enjoy the serenity and that really they were being very inconsiderate and, and, and when I looked round because she had

Robuck Bay Tide out

Plane landing over sandhills

stopped agreeing with me, she had gone! Fortunately she returned with an icecream and I got young again.

 Right now I am sitting having a cold drink and looking at ice machines. We do not have a very big freezer or an engles so ice is a rarity that I like, ice cold drinks at the end of the day, so we thought if there was a cheap ice maker that was small enough to fit in the van, we would get one. I have a bid in on one now and I am waiting to see if I am successful and have it mailed to Darwin for me. Cannot wait, clink the old ice around….