Friday the 26th of August 2022 – Broome, Western Australia

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Sunset with the tide out at Roebuck Bay

Today is our last day in Broome as we retrieved “RAYNSU” from Broome Toyota after they rectified the issue we had, so tomorrow we’re off, heading south. We did have a quiet time here, waiting for the Cruiser to be fixed but managed to have a few outings around Broome. We’ve become quite accustomed to Broome, having had lengthy stays here in the last 2 years. To be honest I don’t mind Broome but I don’t believe its worth all the hype you hear about back home. It’s an extremely expensive place to holiday and I would sooner go back to Darwin or Port Douglas before heading back this way.

Thursday night markets at Town Beach
Broome Town Jetty (this was closed back in 2020 when we last visited, so it was good to have a walk there this time)
This is the prime location to view “Staircase to the Moon”. Found memories of our last visit when we were here to see it.
This artwork is to commemorate the attack on Broome by the Japanese on the 3rd of march 1942, just 2 weeks after Darwin was bombed. It’s entitled 9 Zeros & 9 Stories. It’s striking artwork at the start of the Town Jetty walk.
The old cemetery at Town Beach, a strong Asian influence here.
The last 6 nights we have stayed at the Broome Caravan Park, which is about 8 K’s from the centre of town. We stayed here in 2020 in the middle of COVID, with about 12 other vans, now the park is absolutely chockers! It had the best pool of all the caravan parks we stayed at in 2020 and it is still tremendous, definitely a plus for this park.

So Broome is basically done and dusted, we tick this off (again) our bucket list. In honesty I suppose Broome will forever be etched in our memory as the place we had to stay, whilst RAYNSU underwent a rather expensive repair. We did manage to have a slight respite in our 8 days here, so that was good. I only wish my golf was better! Maybe Kalgoorlie in a few weeks time will bring out my best, fingers crossed??????

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