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Published: August 26th 2014
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Hi travel followers.
As mentioned last blog, we have now set up camp in Broome for a week so that we can check out what the area and the Kimberly has to offer before moving on yet again down the West Australian coastline.
I must say, we had high expectations of the area and to date it has not let us down one little bit. First up we did the rounds of the city and the famous Cable Beach just to get familiar with the area. Just to make sure the Landcruiser didn't feel left out we took it for a drive along the 29 odd kilometres of Cable Beach including the "nudist" beach. (a bit disappointing as there wasn't much showing) but the beach itself was spectacular with it blue waters, white sands and red dirt as a background.
The following day we headed for Willie Beach Pearl Farm via the Cape Leveque road which was spectacular in it's own right due to the bright "red" dirt/bull dust. (see photo) The Pearl Farm tour was very interesting and informative, but it took all my persuasive powers to prevent Lyn from adding to her existing pearl collection.
On another day, we took a "full day" tour, again via sea plane, to the Horizontal Falls situated in Talbot Bay which is part of the Buccaneer Archipelago in the far North West of the Kimberly region. Once in Talbot Bay we had breakfast and watched the sharks being fed before boarding a 900hp speed boat to do a few laps through the big and small horizontal waterfalls (all caused by rising and falling tides squeezing between a couple of very tight cliffs). Again see photos.
We then boarded the sea plane again and headed at very low altitude (170m or 500ft) over the Buccaneer Archipelago (called the bay of a thousand islands) for One Arm Point to do a quick tour of the Trochus Shell hatchery (we found "Nemo". See photos) and then on to the Resort at Cape Leveque for a Barramundi lunch before checking out the beach and red cliffs made famous by the Qantas (I still call Australia home) adds with all the kids singing on the red cliffs.
From there we changed to a 4X4 truck/bus (see photo) for the roughly 200km return trip via the "RED" Cape Leveque road as previously mentioned
with a quick stop at the pearl shell church at Beagle Bay.
The fun just never stops as today we are heading down to Gantheaume Point at the bottom of a 7.5m tide to view the Dinosaur footprints and then tomorrow we are taking a Whale watching/sunset cruise out into the bay. Apparently there are roughly twice as many whales that frequent this area each year on the west coast than there is on the East Coast. Here is hoping. We have already seen quite a few whales with calves from the beaches etc.
Hope you like the photos to date and stay tuned for the next round.
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sue
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Fantastic photos
It all looks beautful there. I love the horizontal falls, I must see those one day.