sunset without a cloud in the sky (just smoke)

Broome

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August 12th 2007
Got the very last camp site in Broome; literally set up our tent on the caretakers back lawn, glad we’re not driving a car (much less pulling a camper) as all 5 campgrounds around town were full by 2:30 when we arrived. Broome seems to be where everyone heads to escape Southern Australia’s winter. It’s the next Miami. Tides never got low enough to let us find the fossilized dinosaur foot pri ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Broome

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more