Cable Beach

Broome

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June 27th 2006
Tuesday 6th June and we head out of Barn Hill along the 9 k’s of red dirt and 3 gates to open and close and drive the final 180 odd k’s to Broome. Headed straight to Cable Beach CP and got a fairly good site on gravel. No grass here except in the old part of the park populated by mainly, you guessed it, retirees from Perth set up semi permanently for the winter. It seems to me that if you ar ... read more

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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