A Brush with Broome

[JohnM]

Staying at the Bali Hai ‘resort and spa’ near Cable Beach.

Chosen for the location/price sweet spot. A bit dated but perfectly OK. Very roomy. The outside bathroom/toilet may be OK in the dry season but not so practical in the wet season.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Staying at the Bali Hai ‘resort and spa’ near Cable Beach.

Chosen for the location/price sweet spot. A bit dated but perfectly OK. Very roomy. The outside bathroom/toilet may be OK in the dry season but not so practical in the wet season.

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Do you get sharks with that? Or do they just give you Flake for the Weber?

 

[JohnM]

It’s the Wet. Cracking thunderstorm got going about 0500h.

 

[Daver6]

Surprised you didn't just take your tent. That accommodation is a bit swanky for you, isn't it?

 

[Lynda2475]

Given the cloud cover my star gazing recommendation probably not worth much.

I stayed at Bali Hai years ago (it had a different name then), but was in dry season and the outdoor shower was great for not creating any humdity inside.

Divers Tavern and Surf Livesaving Club used to both do decent cheap eats. The Zoo Keppers Store does a great breaky if not included at your hotel.

 

[Daver6]

I second Zoo Keepers for breaky.

 

[kookaburra75]

Staying at the Bali Hai ‘resort and spa’ near Cable Beach.

Chosen for the location/price sweet spot. A bit dated but perfectly OK. Very roomy. The outside bathroom/toilet may be OK in the dry season but not so practical in the wet season.

It's certainly a lot better than the original Bali Hai - a very run down caravan and camping park out at Cable Beach.
Dinner at Zanders is always nice, and if you can squeeze in a Mango Beer at Matos Brewery, then all the better

 

[JohnM]

Ignoring The Kid .

I’ll leave the rubbernecking around town until later.

The mandatory beer at Matso’s, with a bit of light lunch.


Now in the BME QP. Could just about touch the bird if the window would open.

 

[JohnM]

On board. Some wannabe DYKWIAS opposite just about invading my space but my shadow protects me.

At least we have the J cabin to ourselves.

 

[JohnM]

What’s going on?

Today’s meal. OK, the bangers and mash are alright, b-b-but where’s the cheese

They had two serves of the duck and two of the bangers. I let the wannabes have the duck(s).

The Chalambar sheeraz is a redeeming feature.

 

[JohnM]

Hmmm, now how does one take this.

FA brings out a package ‘To have with the wine. We serve it down the back.’ - whatever or wherever that is

Do I discard the contents and eat the (excessive) packaging, I wonder.

I am informed by the peasantry opposite that this is what they got yesterday. They ate the contents and survived. I’ll eat the contents.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Hmmm, now how does one take this.

FA brings out a package ‘To have with the wine. We serve it down the back.’ - whatever or wherever that is

Do I discard the contents and eat the (excessive) packaging, I wonder.

I am informed by the peasantry opposite that this is what they got yesterday. They ate the contents and survived. I’ll eat the contents.

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Did you get more wine is the actual question!

 

[JohnM]

Did you get more wine is the actual question!

We each got a bottle of the Chalambar to take home.

Perhaps it’s the antidote for the ‘down the back’ offence.

 

[Major]

Maybe I have been away from flying for too long but those food offerings did not look at all appealing.

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

Maybe I have been away from flying for too long but those food offerings did not look at all appealing.

Red cabbage, onions and peas - LUCKY it was a short flight !!!

 

[JohnM]

Maybe I have been away from flying for too long but those food offerings did not look at all appealing.

Very reminiscent of boarding school and uni residential college fare.

 

[JohnM]

OK, back to the rubber-necking part of the TR.

Lord McAlpine, the 1980s inspiration behind Broome being a tourist hot-spot. The Cable Beach Club Resort was the large development that he kicked it off with.

On the Cable Beach forefront. Zanders café/resto in the background. Not open Wed-Thur at this time of the year (just when we were there, of course…).



Looking over the shoulder and Cable Beach Club Resort beachfront bar and resto is behind. Then Cable Beach. Closed because of second shark attack in about a week or so. First fatal; second person lucky that shark bit only his board.






Then around to Gantheaume Point at the S end of Cable Beach.




Hard to avoid the reflections on the information boards. The region is a rich site for dinosaur footprints.

 

[JohnM]

The Japanese cemetery. Pearling was a tough gig.



Around the point to sheltered Roebuck Bay.





History of pearling.






The famous ‘Roey’. There are a lot of pearl shops. Of course, they are all cultured pearls these days.

 

[Daver6]

Hard to avoid the reflections on the information boards. The region is a rich site for dinosaur footprints.

Leave some new ones then did you?

 

[Cossie]

Family history here, my mum was born in Broome, her father was a pearler and had a fleet of boats, he also owned Gantheaume Point which he bought off the then owner Pat Percy when Pat needed funds. Anastasia's Pool being famous for the flying fox to take his wife down to the warm water pool.

When we took mum back twenty years ago, she said "your grandfather owned that", of course we didn't believe her, given "the history" that is out there, so when we got back home I did a search through the WA land titles office, and she was right.

My grandfather and not Pat Percy gave the place to the local nuns/convent for the help they gave during my grandmothers battle with breast cancer. My grandfather is meant to have died from a broken heart following her death.

My mother and aunty were at boarding school in Toodyay when he died, they didn't get to go back to Broome, instead being shipped off to relatives in Adelaide. The family home was meant to have been used as military hq for the north west during ww2.

Interestingly, his total assets were meant to equal his total debt on his death. It was after all a frontier town and dodgy business was the norm. The place where there house was is now the local Centrelink office.

Also, mum said that Sir Charles Kingsford Smith stayed there, she swore blind that she could remember meeting him.