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Max & Tripod
On our first night in Broome! Tripod were performing at Diver's Tavern on Cable Beach and we had to see them. Max cacked himself and is now the very happy recipient of an autographed T-Shirt. |
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Max & Kamali
You will notice our cunning strategy of buyting Max musical instruments so that he does his music practice while he is away from school. In this case, we found Kamali at the Broome markets and he makes a clever instrument called a flute stone which is made of fired clay. |
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Festival Finale
We caught the last night of the Pearl Festival and watched the fireworks display at the racecourse. Keen observers will notice the full moon in the background. |
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Camel Beach
Some very attractive camels conveniently placed for a classic Cable Beach photo |
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Sunset Watchers
Camels were all around us! |
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Sunset
Very happy with my sunset photos; note the trained boats and bird in the photo.... |
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Moonset
If you get up at 5.30am you too can get this photo of the moon setting in the morning. I was looking for a stairway effect which did not happen but got some great colours all the same. |
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Moonset #2
Very happy with the colours in this shot, sorry about all the artistic stuff, but someone might like them |
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Stairway to the moon
Right place, right time, digital camera, 50 photos, bound to get at least one right |
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Ron & Ann
Invited us to share their vantage point on Town beach to view the stairway to the moon. We met Ron & Ann in the Bubgle Bungles. |
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Just for Marg
and anyone else who likes beads! A tiny shop in Johnny Chi Lane doing a roaring trade mainly because they have every bead ever invented on their shelves. |
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More beads
If you can read the labels you can probably order them over the internet..... |
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Didjeridoo #2
OK, so I learnt how not to buy a didjerdoo in Kalumburu.... However Paul Boon at the Old Broome Lockup showed us what a real didj sounds like and Max is now the proud owner of 2 didjeridoos, one for playing and one for looking at..... |
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Just for Fluff
Put this on your list of preferred holiday destinations! Cable Beach was nicely decorated most days..... |
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Sand shadows
Ahhh, the creative genius is really flowing now! The front passenger is Katrina and the bloke at the rear is me. |
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More shadows
Cable b each makes a very nice canvas at sunset, although I may be the only one who thinks this is an artistic shot? |
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Greg & Kate & Max & Camels
They did not have any three hump camels. Max's camel was called Seabush and ours was called Jaheel. This is the Red Sun Camel ride, the most photographed on Cable Beach. |
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Steadycam
It took me a few goes to take a sunset photo whilst riding on a camel |
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Cape Leveque
And then we get to Cape Leveque where fabulous sunsets are also part of the package |
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Quiet time
Max & Katrina reading in our beach shelter on our first night at Cape Leveque. |
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5.45am
Not sure what's got into me; must be the 8.00pm bedtime which enables one to arise at 5.30 for the sunrise over Eastern Beach at Cape Leveque |
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Cape Leveque
Taken from the beach at low tide. You can see a couple of beach shelters including ours and the Cape Leveque lighthouse |
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Shell collecting
And many of the shells would walk off by themselves if you put them down..... |
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Coral hunting
In lots of different shapes, sizes and colours, all available to inspect at low tide |
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Clammed up
About 40cm across, these babIes populated the rocks which were uncovered by the lowest tides |
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Ocean views
Well beach shelter then, but a nice view all the same. 30 seconds from bed to ocean, very happy about that.... |
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Hunters Creek
I am becoming a bit of a pandanus fan, and I like the Pindan wattle too, must get a photo of one for you..... |
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Sponging
Yes, we did leave some for the other vistors to collect. It will take months to get all the sand out of the car. Or perhaps a solid morning at the hands of John Bisset? |
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Artistic sunrise
Don't know what came over me! |
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Coral close up
Plenty more where this one came from; feel free to email requests for more artistic coral shots. |
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Coral hunters
The tide came in a bit quicker than we were expecting..... |
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Swim o'clock!
But the waves were only up to my waist?? |
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Ensuite shower
Well a shower head in the corner of the beach shelter, very convenient however and toasty warm even after the sun goes down |
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Rock sitting
Did you know that Gregory has a meaning including "watchful"? There are other meanings starting with "W" too..... |
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Aaron & Max
These guys dug up half the beach but were eventually defeated by the tide |
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Camping cut
The lady next door had her hairdressing shingle out and was recouping a significant proportion of her travelling expenses. |
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Cape sunset
Sunset at Cape Leveque |
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Mangrove Jack
Mangrove Greg actually |
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Ghost Crab
We spotted plenty of crabs of all shapes and sizes during our mudcrab hunt with Eddie from the Nagamoon community |
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Mudcrab Eddie
We found one (well two actually) at last after a very nice work up and down the mangrove tidal flats of Nagamoon |
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The mudcrab
And it was a big sucker, needless to say we stayed out of the way of those claws..... |
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Soldier Crabs
Brightly coloured and determined, thses little guys were all through the sand flats. |
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Another sunset
Katrins, Max & Greg at Cape Leveque |
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The ensuite
The shower was already nicely decorated when we moved in for our four-night stay, however we did add some touches of our own while we were there. |
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Ocean views
This is the view over the top of the beach shelters and you can also see a slightly more upmarket cabin at the right of the picture. |
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Max & Paul jamming
Paul Boon is the bloke to see in Broome if you are looking for a didjeridoo. And can he play them; Max has been inspired, hopefully Mr Vladkoff can fit a didjeridoo player into the high school band next year! |
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