Leaving Mary River, the flat landscape was similar to yesterday, but it became much more interesting after Warmun; hills, valleys, and smaller cattle stations, taller and more numerous trees. Both Halls Creek and Warmun are small towns that supported mining, and the cattle drives, where the cattle were herded to the ports from the inland […]
Today we drove our longest day, 575 km from Broome through Fitzroy Crossing, and on to Mary Pool. The long straight road crossed a mostly flat monotonous plain with areas of open grass or small trees, only relieved by the occasional Boabs. But all was pleasantly green owing to the late rains. Our first stop […]
The camels are sometimes on the beach at 8am; I planned to catch the early morning light on them with the sea backdrop, but not today. We took the bus into the older part of the town 20 minutes away. First stop was old Chinatown, a series of iron-clad shops along the streets and lanes […]
Broome, on a peninsula only a few metres above sea level, is already warm on landing at 9.30am. The cyclone-proof corrugation clad buildings, the tall palms, bougainvillea, and boabs say you have arrived in the tropical north. These ‘upside-down’ boabs are smaller versions of the African baobabs but just as strange. Broome is now a […]