Broome/Quongdon Pt

Day 90 - Broome/Quongdon Pt

Tuesday, 25 June 2013

Uneventful trip into Broome, amazed at all the water, not on the road fortunately, but it looked like we were driving through wetlands. Green, GReen, GREEEEN!

Picked up our fresh veges and bumped into Rebine, who we had met on Peron Peninsula. SE cooked us up a beautiful 'authentic' paella. Taught to her by a Spanish chef!

Headed north past Willie Creek and up to Quongdon Pt. We were there last year, but it was a long weekend and we found it hard to find space to open up the camper. Not too bad this year, but still quite a few vans. Picked ourselves a great spot with great views, and right beside an easy path down to the beach (no scrambling up cliffs, or over rocks etc). However, come dusk we discovered we were not alone. Clouds of mozzies, we retreated very quickly inside, grabbing stuff to eat on the way in. Fortunately, had a cooked lunch, so snacks would suffice.

The gazebo went up in the morning and we got the walls out for the first time. Didn't think it would fit with the gazebo being so close to the camper and various latches sticking out, but with a few tweaks we had made it as gap proof as possible.

Huge tides here, just love the way the beach looks so different. With all the rocks as well, there was lots to explore. The crabs make these amazing 'pictures' on the sand with little balls of sand, how do they do that? Saw another strange sight, a lady driving an Amaroc (towing a massive 5th wheeler) camped up behind us and when she walked past us down to the beach her cat followed her, just like a dog. Never seen anything like it.

To the south found a rock pool and whilst I was busy 'posing' and waiting for M to finish playing fisherman, I noticed there were a couple of small gar fish land locked in the pool. Was entertained for half an hour whilst M chased these poor fish around and around, he eventually caught them in is hands - good bait he reckoned. Sadly they didn't even tempt a nibble. We had no fish dinners whilst there.

I am amazed how the hours pass so quickly every day. I do have more wool, picked up at Red Dot in Broome, to extend the range of colours in my Freeform Crochet :). Keeps my occupied whilst Malcolm is fishing the high tide.

Other than the pesky mozzies in the evening it was idyllic. But even then we soon had our refuge in the gazebo well organised and with a few coils burning outside we were relatively 'safe'.

Car booked in for a service, so had to pack up and head back to the busy smoke of Broome on Sunday.

	Quongdon Beach [Map]		Rock Posing [Map]
	Perfecting the art of casting [Map]		Bait, caught by hand [Map]
	How the other half travel [Map]		Kite [Map]
	Crab Art [Map]		Beach Tree [Map]

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