A bit of general travel info:
Broome Shire Council don’t allow pets in any of the caravan parks but they have three sites that are for pet owners only. The oval at Town Beach has no shade and dogs aren’t allowed on Town Beach. The Seventh Day Adventist Church site is a small car park in the middle of nowhere. We decided the best of the three was the Pistol Club which has nice shady sites in a quiet bushland setting (apart from Thursdays and Saturdays when people are shooting).
At least they are considerably cheaper than the caravan parks and a few people have said they are squashed in like sardines at the parks.
Broome sits on the Indian Ocean which is a beautiful turquoise colour. We started out at Entrance Point where dogs are allowed on the beach and Winston was cock-a-hoop.
We were looking forward to a seafood lunch at the nearby Wharf Restaurant but fish and chips cost $38.50 so we gave that a miss. The main issue with the ocean here are the stingers – box jellyfish and Irukandji, which are most prevalent in the wet season. As we saw up in Cairns, there are bottles of vinegar along the beach which is used to treat the stings.
We’re looking forward to many beautiful sunsets as we drive down the Western Coast. One of the most famous places to watch a sunset is on Broome’s Cable Beach, where four wheel drives line up along the beach and tourists can have camel rides.
We spent ages trying to access the section to the North that allowed dogs but kept getting blocked by private properties. In the end we decided we would have to walk along the main beach to get there and risk getting thrown off. The part before the dog beach is a nudist beach but there was only one brave man letting it all hang out at that time of the evening amongst all the people watching the sun go down.
