DSC_0009.JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. Near the Fitzroy River, this is named Ski Creek but we can't imagine anyone bringing a ski boat way out here.
DSC_0062.JPG=Broome, Western Australia. Pioneers cemetary at Roebuck Bay.
11Broome3.jpg=Broome, Western Australia. Displays on the museum entrance porch with a familiar Aboriginal 'seasons calendar' but in the local Aboriginal dialect.
DSC_0026.JPG=Broome, Western Australia. Amazing rock formations on the waterfront between Broome Port and Entrance Point.
DSC_0037-53 (10).JPG=Broome, Western Australia. Pearl Lugger 'Sam Male' in the museum dry dock.
11Broome.jpg=Broome, Western Australia. McDaniel Shell Collection.
DSC_0001.JPG=Broome, Western Australia. The Broome Historical Museum is housed in the old Customs House building. It was built in the late 1890's and it was a store until 1910 when it became vacant and Customs then occupied it until 1979
09BroomePan05.JPG=Broome, Western Australia. View from Entrance Point toward the Port. (panorama)
DSC_0050.JPG=Broome, Western Australia. View from Entrance Point toward the Port.
DSC_0037-53 (6).JPG=Broome, Western Australia. Town centre, the Sun Picture Theatre was built in 1916 - open air and still has the canvas deck chair seating.
Joys3.jpg=Broome, Western Australia -  Boobook Owl, Black Swan cooling off, and a Bleeding Heart Pigeon.
DSC_0005.JPG=Broome, Western Australia. Pearl Lugger museum information panel.
DSC_0023.JPG=Broome, Western Australia -  Relaxing on Roebuck Bay.
DSC_0037-53 (11).JPG=Broome, Western Australia. Pearl Lugger 'Sam Male' in dry dock.
DSC_0011.JPG=Broome, Western Australia. Pearl Lugger information panel.
DSC_0040.JPG=Broome, Western Australia -  The weathered sandstone rocks and cliffs of Entrance Point at high tide.
DSC_0037-53 (1).JPG=Broome, Western Australia. The restored Streeter's Jetty and Dampier Creek.
13Broome5.jpg=Broome, Western Australia - Long Beaked Corellas digging at 12 Mile Bird Park.
DSC_0068.JPG=Broome, Western Australia. Gantheaume Point
DSC_0043.JPG=Broome, Western Australia -  After retrieving our boat at Entrance Point.
DSC_0032.JPG=Broome, Western Australia. Very red rock formations at Entrance Point.
09BroomePan02.JPG=Broome, Western Australia. Very red rock formations at Entrance Point. (panorama)
Joys.jpg=Broome, Western Australia -  A Black Cockatoo showing off his comic antics at 12 Mile Bird Park.
DSC_0037-53 (14).JPG=Broome, Western Australia. The restored Streeter's Jetty and Dampier Creek.
10Broome1.jpg=Broome, Western Australia. Pearl Lugger 'Sam Male' in dry dock.
DSC_0003.JPG=Broome, Western Australia. The Pearl Luggers Museum is about the early divers and their boats harvesting the pearl shells.
DSC_0065.JPG=Broome, Western Australia. Back in the main shopping area in Chinatown, this hairdressing salon is built in thee front of  a traditional early house.
DSC_0016.JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. We stopped for the night at Nillibubbica Rest Area (WA), 71 kms east of the town of Roebuck Plains. We soon heard these steers walking through the brush beside us and they started to enter the rest area.
DSC_0037.JPG=Broome, Western Australia. Various colours in the eroded rock formations at Entrance Point.
13Broome.jpg=Broome, Western Australia -  Blue Winged and Common Kookaburras at 12 Mile Bird Park. The park is primarily a display of Austrlian parrots but with others and some exotic species as well.
13Broome2.jpg=Broome, Western Australia -  At 12 Mile Bird Park, a spectacular Chinese Golden Pheasant.
DSC_0037-53 (8).JPG=Broome, Western Australia.New buildings at Roebuck Bay use corrugated iron as the most common exterior. It is in keeping with the old buildings and actually looks better than it sounds.
09BroomePan06.JPG=Broome, Western Australia. View of the famous Cable Beach from Gantheaume Point. (panorama)
11BroomePan01.JPG=Broome, Western Australia. Roebuck Bay. (panorama)
DSC_0044.JPG=Broome, Western Australia. Town centre, in Chinatown is this commemoration plaque to the WWII Broome bombings of 1942.
DSC_0050a.JPG=Broome, Western Australia -  The weathered sandstone rocks and cliffs of Entrance Point
DSC_0049.JPG=Broome, Western Australia -  The weathered sandstone rocks and cliffs of Entrance Point at high tide.
DSC_0036.JPG=Broome, Western Australia -  The weathered sandstone rocks and cliffs of Entrance Point at high tide.
DSC_0080.JPG=Broome, Western Australia. Multi-coloured rock formations and the Indian Ocean at Gantheaume Point.
DSC_0054a.JPG=Broome, Western Australia -  Broome Port and jetty at high tide.
DSC_0052.JPG=Broome, Western Australia. View from Entrance Point toward the Port.
11Broome9.jpg=Broome, Western Australia. The Streeter and Male families are prominent at the Pioneers cemetary.
DSC_0045.JPG=Broome, Western Australia -  Entrance Point public boat ramp at high tide.
13Broome7.jpg=Broome, Western Australia -  At 12 Mile Bird Park, a Masked Lapwing (aka Plover, Masked Plover).
10Broomea.jpg=Broome, Western Australia. Town centre, inside the Sun Picture Theatre.
DSC_0091crop.jpg=Broome, Western Australia -  At 12 Mile Bird Park, a spectacular Chinese Golden Pheasant.
09BroomePan01.JPG=Broome, Western Australia. Entrance Point. (panorama)
DSC_0041.JPG=Broome, Western Australia. Very colourful rock formations at Entrance Point.
11Broome6.jpg=Broome, Western Australia. Decorated Pearl shell display
11Broome8.jpg=Broome, Western Australia. This mud crab was a monster and must have been close to a foot across across the shell. The old  street sign is an indication of a very multicultural Broome.
10Broome5.jpg=Broome, Western Australia. Town centre, Chinatown phone booths
DSC_0037-53 (2).JPG=Broome, Western Australia. The restored Streeter's Jetty and Dampier Creek.
11Broome4.jpg=Broome, Western Australia. Pearl shell diving equipment.
DSC_0081.JPG=Broome, Western Australia. Multi-coloured rock formations and the Indian Ocean at Gantheaume Point.
DSC_0004.JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. Again crossing the Fitzroy River wetlands.
DSC_0001b.JPG=Broome, Western Australia -  Next day we  left to make our way toward Port Headland but first we made an interesting stop for a couple of hours  at 12 Mile Bird Park.
DSC_0073.JPG=Broome, Western Australia. Multi-coloured rock formations at Gantheaume Point.
DSC_0052a.JPG=Broome, Western Australia -  The weathered sandstone rocks and cliffs of Entrance Point at high tide.
10Broome3.jpg=Broome, Western Australia. Pearl shell in the museum.
DSC_0009a.JPG=Broome, Western Australia. Old de-compression chamber - unfortunately it was kept on-shore so by the time an injured diver was  brought in, he could have been in serious trouble.
DSC_0020a.JPG=Broome, Western Australia -  On  the Indian Ocean off  Entrance Point.
10Broome2.jpg=Broome, Western Australia. Pearl Lugger 'Sam Male' in dry dock.
DSC_0038.JPG=Broome, Western Australia. Very red rock formations at Entrance Point. The two light spots inside the dark cave is from sunlight passing through a 'blowhole' - see the next pic
DSC_0035.JPG=Broome, Western Australia. Entrance Point.
DSC_0128.JPG=Broome, Western Australia -  Parrots at 12 Mile Bird Park.
DSC_0021.JPG=Broome, Western Australia. An unusual vessel (dredge?) passing Entrance Point.
DSC_0057.JPG=Broome, Western Australia. Next day we visited the Chinatown area and the most interesting Pearl Luggers Museum.
DSC_0053.JPG=Broome, Western Australia. Very colourful rock formations at Entrance Point. The perfectly formed circular 'blowhole' through the rock.
13Broome1.jpg=Broome, Western Australia - 12 Mile Bird Park, Curlew
DSC_0007.JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. Fitzroy River.
DSC_0064.JPG=Broome, Western Australia. New buildings in the same treet built in a style, consistent with the traditional early house.
DSC_0001a.JPG=Broome, Western Australia. Next day on our  last day in Broome, we put the boat in at Entrance Point.
DSC_0074.JPG=Broome, Western Australia. Multi-coloured rock formations at Gantheaume Point.
DSC_0029.JPG=Broome, Western Australia. A picture taken before a war dance in 1917 with one of the Aboriginals wearing his decorated pearl shell cod-piece.
13Broome4.jpg=Broome, Western Australia -  Parrots at 12 Mile Bird Park.
DSC_0027a.JPG=Broome, Western Australia -  The weathered sandstone rocks and cliffs of Entrance Point, this time at high tide.
DSC_0056.JPG=Broome, Western Australia. Roebuck Bay and Town Beach.
DSC_0079.JPG=Broome, Western Australia. Multi-coloured rock formations and the Indian Ocean at Gantheaume Point.
DSC_0017.JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. We stopped for the night at Nillibubbica Rest Area (WA), 71 kms east of the town of Roebuck Plains. Pictured through our windscreen when they were curious about the fenced rest area.
DSC_0133.JPG=Leaving Broome, Western Australia -  wandering stock on unfenced stations are a real danger to high speed night driving.
13Broome8.jpg=Broome, Western Australia -  Parrots at 12 Mile Bird Park.
DSC_0034a.JPG=Broome, Western Australia -  The weathered sandstone rocks and cliffs of Entrance Point at high tide.
13Broome6.jpg=Broome, Western Australia -  On the left, the rare Gouldian Finch.
DSC_0037-53 (7).JPG=Broome, Western Australia. The old Roebuck Bay Hotel opposite the Pearl Lugger museum.
Broome.jpg=Broome, Western Australia. After setting up for a few days here, we took the scooter to see the waterfront areas and where was the best boat ramp for us.
DSC_0027.JPG=Broome, Western Australia. Amazing rock formations on the waterfront between Broome Port and Entrance Point.
12BroomePan01.JPG=Broome, Western Australia -  Entrance Point. (panorama)
11Broome5.jpg=Broome, Western Australia. Old Japanese headstones.
DSC_0055.JPG=Broome, Western Australia -  The weathered sandstone rocks and cliffs of Entrance Point at high tide.
DSC_0037-53 (9).JPG=Broome, Western Australia. Inside the old Roebuck Bay Hotel for lunch.
DSC_0034.JPG=Broome, Western Australia. Very colourful rock formations at Entrance Point.
DSC_0032a.JPG=Broome, Western Australia -  The boat ramp gets better at high tide.
11Broome2.jpg=Broome, Western Australia. 1907 photographs of luggers in Roebuck Bay and Dampier Creek.
DSC_0051.JPG=Broome, Western Australia. Erosion has worn the rock and in doing so, has created these wavy patterns.
DSC_0054.JPG=Broome, Western Australia. A second, larger 'blowhole' through the rock.
12BroomePan05.JPG=Broome, Western Australia -  Broome Port and  Entrance Point.
DSC_0016a.JPG=Broome, Western Australia. Some decorated pearl shell cod-pieces (in the Pearl Lugger Museum)
DSC_0037-53 (3).JPG=Broome, Western Australia. Town centre, Dampier Terrace.
10Broome4.jpg=Broome, Western Australia. Dive helmets and air pumps in the Pearl Lugger museum.
DSC_0059.JPG=Broome, Western Australia. View of the famous Cable Beach from Gantheaume Point.
DSC_0037-53 (12).JPG=Broome, Western Australia. Roebuck Bay shopping arcade.
09Broome5.jpg=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. From time to time, we have seen this old couple (would have to be in their 80's) plodding along the highway. The first time was about 3 weeks ago and more than 1000km back in the Northern Territory. We can imagine her saying 'Come back here, you bloody coward'
10Broome.jpg=Broome, Western Australia. Dive helmet at the Pearl Luggers Museum.
DSC_0004b.JPG=Broome, Western Australia -  Turquoise coloured Indian Ocean off  Entrance Point.
DSC_0028.JPG=Broome, Western Australia -  The weathered sandstone rocks and cliffs of Entrance Point, this time at high tide.
DSC_0037-53 (13).JPG=Broome, Western Australia. Roebuck Bay and Chinatown area.
09Broome4.jpg=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. A long stretch of Spear Wattle in flower.
11Broome1.jpg=Broome, Western Australia. McDaniel Shell Collection.
DSC_0029a.JPG=Broome, Western Australia -  Access by the boat ramp gets much better at high tide.
11BroomePan02.JPG=Broome, Western Australia. Roebuck Bay and Town Beach. (panorama)
DSC_0072.JPG=Broome, Western Australia. Cable Beach viewed from Gantheaume Point.
11Broome10.jpg=Broome, Western Australia. The Streeter and Male families are prominent at the Pioneers cemetary.
DSC_0008.JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. Fitzroy River.
DSC_0037-53 (4).JPG=Broome, Western Australia. Town centre, Short St seems to line up with the Broome International runway.
11Broome7.jpg=Broome, Western Australia. Broome telephone equipment.
11BroomePan03.JPG=Broome, Western Australia. Display showing the affluence of the Pearl Master. White clothing was standard was standard dress for the Pearl Masters, in spite of the red dirt streets of  early Broome.
DSC_0004a.JPG=Broome, Western Australia. Pearl Lugger museum information panel explaining the job of the diver's attendant - called The Tender.
13Broome3.jpg=Broome, Western Australia -  We can't try to name or include all of the parrots, but we didn't realise there was so many different Rosellas in Australia
DSC_0025.JPG=Broome, Western Australia -  Relaxing on Roebuck Bay.
Joys1.jpg=Broome, Western Australia -  At 12 Mile Bird Park, budgerigars
DSC_0020.JPG=Broome, Western Australia. The public boat ramp at Entrance Point will be the best one for us.
09Broome6.jpg=Broome, Western Australia. Gantheaume Point lighthouse has large sea eagle nests containg some noisy chicks, but with parents on guard.
DSC_0015.JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. We stopped for the night at Nillibubbica Rest Area (WA), 71 kms east of the town of Roebuck Plains. We soon heard these steers walking through the brush beside us and they started to enter the rest area.
Joys2.jpg=Broome, Western Australia -  Parrots at 12 Mile Bird Park.
DSC_0019.JPG=Broome, Western Australia. Amazing rock formations on the waterfront at low tide between Broome Port and Entrance Point.
09Broome1.jpg=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. One of the huge dangers of speeding on Australian highways is the many unfenced cattle properties. We don't drive at night because it is too dangerous.
