BROOME – DAY 2

Day 2 in beautiful Broome and despite it being stinking hot and humid we still had a great time.

We took a trip to Town Beach again for breakfast overlooking the bay. This restaurant was frequently used by us when we were here before. It is now under different ownership but still a great place for brekky. 5 years ago it was known as The Irukandji and for some crazy reason the new owners scrapped the name and it’s now simply called Town Beach Café. How boring!

We like to live on the edge!

After breakfast we went to a place called Gantheaume Point.

This gorgeous place is steeped in history with a landowner from days gone by crafted a small rock-pool for his wife who suffered severe arthritis. This pool still exists today and is well known in the region as Anastasias’ Pool. It’s a great spot for a dip – the ultimate infinity pool I guess.

Personally I preferred the pool next to it; this one was much more fun! One has to be very careful when the tide is coming in though; and the tide comes in pretty fast in this neck of the woods.

The whole area is simply stunning though and well worth a visit.

After our swim we went into the town and took a drive around to look at some of the architecture.

We both love the houses here but cannot understand why most of them aren’t built on stilts to help the air-flow and keep them cooler.

Still, who are we to argue!

Boy! I could sure live here even though I know I’d bitch at the weather during the wet season.

In the evening we went to Matsos’ for an early dinner before going to the Sun Cinema for a movie.

We watched Lincoln, not a great movie but a good one. Well worth watching.

The cinema is the oldest working outdoor cinema dating back to 1933!

One still sits in the deckchairs to watch the movie and you’re advised to ‘bring your own cushions. Good advice, they were needed since the deck-chairs ain’t comfortable after a few minutes.

There was something ‘quaint’ about watching a movie and being distracted as a plane fly’s in low overhead as it comes into land at the nearby airport! Irritating but quaint.

We head out tomorrow to head nearer to home. The next stopping point will be Exmouth for a couple of days but we doubt we will make it in one day – it’s around 1200 clicks away so we will be taking an overnight stop ‘somewhere’ en route! Not sure where yet so I’ll keep ya posted.