In Broome, Back at the beach at last.
Evelyn has now gone back to Austria. There were many tears and farewells at the airport. It will be hard travelling alone again. Well not too hard I hope as there are alway interesting people around to meet and chat to but I've found it is so much better to have somebody you really get on well with ( and sometimes not so ;) ) . Makes all the the silly adventures much more interesting. Hopefully when Evelyn eventually shows her Mum her wounded foot a tall muscley Austrian hitman ( Arnie S ) isn't sent after me for damaging her daughter. And Eve's Mum if you are reading this I always told her to jump off backwards but she never listened :)
Finally I am back at the beach, Darwin doesn't count as you cant swim there unless you are a nutter. Got in at about 3pm last night and headed straight for Cable beach. Dissapointment at the lack of surf gave way to joy as I felt the silken sand between my toes and the warm tropical water as I dived in.
Cable beach is amazing with huge tides. At low the beach seems to be about 100 meters wide and at high tide it is almost gone. The water is milky green the origin of I'm not sure. I think it has something to do with the sand which seems to have a large clay content in it but I may be wrong.
One of the most interesting things I did on my trek over from Darwin was a short stop I made just after Fitzroy crossing. I think that was the place though I'm not sure now.... Anyway I noticed a formation of very strange shapped rocks by the side of the road. I stopped the car and went to investigate. They were of limestone formation and very very sharp like glass. I looked closer and to my surprise I found coral, the same kind of coral you would find as if you looked at a reef by the seaside. However I was about 400 km inland and the sea had last been here thousands if not millions of years ago. Even more spectaclur I found a seashell just sitting in a crack in the rock. It is a beautiful little spiral shell, perfectly white and just sitting there for me to pick up. How extraordinary! Must find a geologist to ask about the area.
The Gibb River road turned out not to be a possiblity. The more reasonably people I spoke to told me of the very sharp rocks and the dodgy river crossing I would have to make. The girls at tourist info in Kununurra looked at me very severly when I suggested I may do it in a Magna. I thouroughly dissapointed as I had been looking forward to getting off the bitumen and onto the dirt. Still the road from Kununnara to Broome was hardly dissapointing. The mountain ranges were old and imposing, not high but their crumbling attire of red rubble and outcrops of restistent stone were very imposing. One day I'll have to come back to this area with a 4x4 and give it a thorough exploring.
Cheers B
Finally I am back at the beach, Darwin doesn't count as you cant swim there unless you are a nutter. Got in at about 3pm last night and headed straight for Cable beach. Dissapointment at the lack of surf gave way to joy as I felt the silken sand between my toes and the warm tropical water as I dived in.
Cable beach is amazing with huge tides. At low the beach seems to be about 100 meters wide and at high tide it is almost gone. The water is milky green the origin of I'm not sure. I think it has something to do with the sand which seems to have a large clay content in it but I may be wrong.
One of the most interesting things I did on my trek over from Darwin was a short stop I made just after Fitzroy crossing. I think that was the place though I'm not sure now.... Anyway I noticed a formation of very strange shapped rocks by the side of the road. I stopped the car and went to investigate. They were of limestone formation and very very sharp like glass. I looked closer and to my surprise I found coral, the same kind of coral you would find as if you looked at a reef by the seaside. However I was about 400 km inland and the sea had last been here thousands if not millions of years ago. Even more spectaclur I found a seashell just sitting in a crack in the rock. It is a beautiful little spiral shell, perfectly white and just sitting there for me to pick up. How extraordinary! Must find a geologist to ask about the area.
The Gibb River road turned out not to be a possiblity. The more reasonably people I spoke to told me of the very sharp rocks and the dodgy river crossing I would have to make. The girls at tourist info in Kununurra looked at me very severly when I suggested I may do it in a Magna. I thouroughly dissapointed as I had been looking forward to getting off the bitumen and onto the dirt. Still the road from Kununnara to Broome was hardly dissapointing. The mountain ranges were old and imposing, not high but their crumbling attire of red rubble and outcrops of restistent stone were very imposing. One day I'll have to come back to this area with a 4x4 and give it a thorough exploring.
Cheers B
posted by Brad Phelan at Monday, October 04, 2004
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