Again, the van was all packed up. Before leaving town we pulled into the local
Butcher (Sampey’s) to stock up the freezer; then we were back on the road. We managed to make a quick call in to the
Derby Prison Tree (so we could compare it with the one near Wyndham) before
heading onto the beautiful town of Broome.
Fortunately, we were able to book into a caravan park – peace of mind as
majority of the time this is something difficult to do. It was about a 200km pleasant drive along a
bitumen road (thankfully) and it was easy to find the caravan park. We set up home and went out exploring a
little. One of the first places we found
was Matsu’s Brewery – somewhere that Josh had been itching to get to. It has been a long time since he’s enjoyed a
mango beer so we pulled up a table.
After the first cold beer, he was immediately buying a jug – he now had
the taste for it again! We left around
5pm and I jumped in the driver’s seat, something I haven’t done for
months. After having a stop off at the
local jetty, we were racing with the sun to find a good spot to enjoy the
sunset. We ended up finding the dirt
road that takes you to Gantheume Point and pulled over just in time to watch
the sun set behind the horizon – so pretty!
Being Friday, there was footy to watch – and we were back in the land of
the living where we had reception. Josh
got to watch a bit of this and afterwards, the girls and I sat up watching The
Squeakle – a lovely family night in.
This morning Josh and the girls
went to find somewhere to wash the car.
All they found was a garage that had a gernie but at least that got a
lot of the dust off and Josh may have a chance to keep his clothes a little
cleaner. As they were leaving, they ran
into Madee, the young girl who we’ve met at Lake Argyle and the Bungle Bungles,
also staying here at the caravan park.
Most of the day was spent at the van catching up on the blog and then we
escaped our box to the sunshine of Broome.
Josh had spoken to his cousin Venitah and arranged to catch up with her
and her husband Phil, later this afternoon overlooking Cable Beach. We got there early and became an onlooker of
a wedding before meeting up at the Sunset Bar.
It was great to meet them both and we had a fantastic afternoon and
night catching up on life. The kids also
really took to them and were sad when it was time to leave – I’m sure we will
meet up again before moving on though.
We had missed the Broome markets
yesterday morning so after breakfast today we headed in. We had a bit of a roam about but only came
away with some massive licorice pieces for the kids. Afterwards, we wandered past the old outdoor
Sun Cinema and then through Chinatown before picking up a few things at
Coles. Back at the van, we forced the
kids to sit down to an hour or so of schoolwork before packing up some food
into the car and heading to the beach to meet up with Madee and her family for
a BBQ on the beach. There were a lot of
people in their 4WD’s on the beach, and some with normal sedans. We also noticed that it was a popular place
to bring your dog. We invited Venitah
and Phil to join us too, and the kids were really excited to get to play with
their two dogs, Cloud and Rory. We
parked a long way back from the beach, thanks to Jo and Steve’s insider
knowledge from the night before. By the
time the sun was setting around 5.30 – 6.00pm, many people had started to move
their cars back to avoid them ending up in the ocean! We too moved ours around 6.30pm to about
another 30 metres back... incredible how quick the tide comes in. It had actually gotten a bit cold by this
stage and I really should have done the same as the kids and brought a jacket.
So, another week began and we
decided that, as it was Monday, that the kids should get stuck into schoolwork
seeing as though we were already a week behind.
We had lots of whinging but Zoe got stuck into hers and Sami eventually
followed, even though her attention was only held in about 10 minute batches –
so Sami! It was a long and frustrating
day and I think we were all thankful when it ended.
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