Back to Broome

I have just returned from a quick 4 day break to Broome. I needed to warm up and dry out after 15 days straight of rain in Perth (a record for August) and just have a break.

I got to do some things that I didn't get to do in the 3 months I spent in Broome last year. One of which was get a pic of the camel trains that take tourists up and down the beach. I don't get the attraction really. The camels stink for one. Someone was telling me they saw a topless guy on one once and the camel behind licked the sweat off his back the whole way. yum!

Broome's old jetties

The second jetty in Broome which was adjacent to Town Beach (first bit of land sticking out in the aerial picture) The current Jetty can be seen beyond that. Parts of the old jetty still remain under the water and are exposed at very low tides. People walk along its path with long sticks and dig up plates, bottles and other rubbish (I mean treasures) which had been dumped off the jetty.

Streeter's Jetty

"Broome style"

This is an old post I never finished. I did some research about Broome's building styles. The gist is that timber wasn't available because there are no forrests around, so tin was used. Shutters like those below were used for cyclone protection in the wet, and ventilation in the dry. Verandas were often the coolest places to sleep so they were fenced in with lattices for ventilation and privacy. These days they are often glassed in as well.

Another aspect is the venting shown in the last row of photos. The middle picture is the ANZ bank! The others are an art gallery. It is an old, well preserved building but a bit disorientating as an art gallery as the floor in uneven and slants, as does the low roof.

Gero

Buccaneer Peninsular

I have realised I haven't put up my pics from my flight in the Kimberley last year. These are of the Buccaneer Peninsular which consists of hundreds of islands. This area also includes the Horizontal waterfalls.

Horizontal waterfalls. The adventurous can fly out here, land on the water and then take a boat down the falls (as long as they are falling - they are caused by the huge tides, so depend on the times of these).

Monkey Mia