Blown Out Of Broome

Woke up around 6ish and packed up the van in a reasonably leisurely manner and on the road just after 8am.  It was very windy today and there were dust squalls all around Broome and across Roebuck Bay making it very hazy and not as pretty as it has been the last few days.  Just as well we were leaving!

Larry drove for the first two hours, then we pulled over in a P stop and swapped drivers and Jenny took over until we reached Sandfire roadhouse which was approximately another two hours down the road.  A very boring drive views-wise so we munched our way through muesli bars and BBQ shapes and listened to an audio book of Ben Elton's "Two Brothers" which helped to pass the time.

We didn't stop at Sandfire other than to refuel and just as well we didn't as when we got to Eighty Mile Beach Caravan Park there was a queue of caravans and we managed to get the second last powered caravan site.  As is usual when Larry and Jenny take a caravan anywhere near the beach it was howling a gale (but not raining at least!) so it took us a bit longer to set up as we wrestled the awning, ropes and screens into position.

Once we had got our home for the next three days sorted, we had a late lunch of crusty rolls and chilled in our deck chairs until the bed called for a while  Inexplicably Larry tried the telly reception and lo and behold we had cable TV in the middle of nowhere whereas we got diddly squat in the middle of Broome. Oh well, can't complain at least the cable repairs that Larry did worked!

About mid afternoon the wind had dropped a little so we hopped in the car and drove down onto Eighty Mile Beach to check out the tide and fishing etc.  The tide was well and truly on the way out so no good for fishing although there were a few hopeful fishing folk there flinging out their lines.  We'll have a go tomorrow afternoon when the tide is coming in as that is when it's more likely we'll actually catch something other than seaweed.

Headed back to camp via the caravan park office to buy some bait and had a couple of mango beers before dinner time of burgers on the barbie.  And so another day over already.  Amazing how quickly they fly by and how they would be dragging if we were at work!