Busy Broome

 18/08/2011
  Port Smith will go down as one of the very special places we have visited during our tour of Australia. We are now back in busy Broome, with it’s traffic noise and  general hubbub.  We will miss the peace and quiet , we will miss the friendliness  and miss the wild life, especially the kangaroos bounding about the place. We will remember the lagoon and the lagoon island but we won’t miss the sand flies!
So Broome it is for maybe another couple of weeks, whether we will be able to stick this large and extremely busy camp, (we have site 450) remains to be seen.

 19/08/2011
  Site 450 is situated next to a walkway which leads to the toilets and shower block. As we sit under our awning with our early evening beer, we have a constant stream of people making their way to the ablution block, who inevitably stare at us, like we are something in a zoo! We have cured it marginally by turning the van around, but it is still like living in a goldfish bowl.
  I have likened Cable Beach caravan park  to the caravanners  Benidorm!

  20/08/2011
  We have made a decision, we are out of here next Thursday, one week in Benidorm is enough.  This is the most expensive park we have stayed in at $50 night and has nothing more than any other caravan park. If fact the facilities, whilst good are insufficient, and queuing for the toilet in the morning is not  50 buck a night value.
 Apart from a couple of hours on Cable Beach we spent most of the day shopping for more bit for the antinastybug screen, which fell down.  We reckon we have the answer!
  Had a couple of beers in a pub that we used  the last time we were in  Broome --- The Roey, another lively Aussie pub with lots of T V screens.  Made a interchange from the Divers.

 21/08/2011
  Cable Beach caravan park is what we thought, a holiday park for Aussies escaping the cold, wet south mid-winter which is August.  We bet that in a couple of weeks time it will be cleared out as the holiday makers migrate south  for their summer. Then we think the place will be occupied by travellers.
  The bloke opposite has spent the last hour scraping up the leaves from around his van, that was after he washed his shiny 4X4 wheels after his daily trip driving along the beach.  Sad Bugger, or am I just too cynical? Let’s get on the road!