What Dino Prints

THURSDAY 11 JULY 2019

This caravan park is home to the Stevie Wonder bird.  So called because it whistles the first four notes of “Isn’t  she lovely” over and over again.  Annoying because a)  it starts up at about 6am (Shut up nature! shouts Kate) and b) because it doesn’t whistle the fifth note and hence leaves the phrase unresolved.

We consoled ourselves with a lovely lazy lie in reading our tablets etc because this caravan park also has Wifi.  We then drove around to the Zookeeper’s Store for brunch.  The cafe is so named as it is all that remains of Lord McAlpine’s zoo which was a big Broome attraction during the 80’s.  We did a bit of googling while we waited for our food (very popular cafe!) and it was very interesting what a lot of money could get you in the 80’s.  How McAlpine managed to stock his zoo with animals and birds direct from the UK seems dodgy to say least (quarantine anyone??!!)  There were more exotic birds than you could poke a stick at and when the zoo closed in the 90’s these were sold to private owners all over the show.  In any case, McAlpine did for Broome what Alan Bond did for Fremantle so I guess it all worked out in the end.

After brunch we drove out to Gantheaume Point as low tide had obligingly decided to be late morning instead of the crack of dawn.  We saw the fake dinosaur footprints at the top of the cliff and then started down the cliff to try and find the real ones.  Unfortunately we were still a bit early for low tide (and it wasn’t going to be a particularly low tide in any case) and Kate decided she really couldn’t be bothered climbing right down due to the action resulting in the necessary climb back up again and Jenny and Larry had already seen them so we headed back to the car.  Not a total waste of time though as it is still a very scenic spot and we could spot the sea eagle sitting near his next in the big antenna structure smugly eating a big fish he/she had just caught.

We headed into Broome and did a grocery shop at Woolies and Larry bought two tickets in a local raffle.  I am hoping we win second prize which is an Engel car fridge just so I can see the look on Ben’s face as he is exasperated that we already own 2 car fridges (plus the two fridges at home!)

Back to the van to unload and then the lure of air conditioning in the van was too hard to ignore so it was another chill session.

At about 5.30pm we headed back into town and were first in the queue for the Sun Cinemas for the 6.15pm viewing of Yesterday.  An enjoyable little movie and always fun to have one or two lines drowned out by jets flying overhead!  We grabbed some Chicken Treat on the way home afterwards – commercial junk food – we are in the big smoke!!