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Cable Beach Caravan Park<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>
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Cable Beach <\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>
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Gantheaume Point<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>
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Broome<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>
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Willie Creek Pearl Farm<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>
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Broome Toyota<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t
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Cable Beach Sunset<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>
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Van Site<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>
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Van Site<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>
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Cable Beach Van Park Pool<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>
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Cable Beach Van Park Pool<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>
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Rufus the Frill Neck Lizaed<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>
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Broome TV Antenna Accident<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>
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Broome TV Antenna Accident<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure><\/div>\n
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So only a relatively short drive of 165km from Willare Bridge Roadhouse to Broome<\/a> And Cable Beach Caravan Park<\/a>, which was to be our home for the next week, which turned into two weeks. Travellers opinions varied about Broome<\/a> quite a bit. Some say it was over-rated and others say it was beautiful. For us it was the latter and so after a couple of days we decided to extend out stay\u2026but there was a reason for this\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n

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Van Site<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Cable Beach Caravan Park<\/a> is a large caravan park with well over 400 sites. As we arrived at the tail end of the season it was only about 20% full if that. Given this we were allocated a massive double site that also enabled us to drive through instead of backing in. However, not all good things end in joy!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Broome TV Antenna Accident<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

As Rob pulled through the site a low hanging branch hooked itself under the TV aerial mast and lifted it from its guides and bent the mast. Everything still worked but the mast needed replacing in order to safely move on after Broome<\/a>. Luckily we found a caravan repairer in Broome<\/a> who said he could make us a new mast and fit it we booked that in for the Friday morning we were to leave. After a couple of days we decided that we would extend our stay to the Monday only to discover that the caravan repair guy was in the process of moving his business to Broome<\/a> from Katherine and that he was going back to Katherine on the Saturday to finish up some business there. So in the end we kept the repair booking for Friday and decided that Broome<\/a> was so relaxing that we miight as well extend our stay for another full week.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Broome TV Antenna Accident<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The TV antenna repair meant that we had to pack up, hitch up and drive to the repair place but it was s small price to pay to get the repair done and dusted. The repair was excellent. He basically unmounted the TV antenna, made a new mast on the spot from a stronger piece of square metal tube and we were back on site and setting up again by 9:00am. A big shout out to Caravans in Broome – Spares, Repairs & Hire<\/a>… great service, excellent result and nice folks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our neighbour for most of the two weeks was a ‘born again’ christian warrior. He had a shaved head and prison tatts and spent his days wandering around the roads of Broome<\/a> dragging a 7ft cross behind him with a little wheel on the bottom. He had a sign outside his van saying he was an ex-prisoner, ex-drug addict, ex-alcoholic, ex-orphanage, re-born christian. He and his partner kept to themselves most of the time when they weren’t out wandering the roads.He did not really interact with us other than to say G’day and this may have been for the best given Rob’s views on religion. But good luck to him! If religion fixed his life up then that’s a good thing for him\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n

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Cable Beach Van Park Pool<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

With the caravan park being empty we were able beat the heat of the day by taking a dip in the excellent pool without hordes of kids screaming and splashing around. You know you’re turning into a senior when kids become an annoyance to be endured if their not yours. The pool was quite large by caravan park standards and didn’t really have a shallow end, only a ‘shallower’ end. It was shaded by two large shade sail with the ability to add a third if required. It had a grotto at one end that was built from the red and white stratafied Kimberly rock. The pool pumped a small waterfall over the rocky grotto such that you could swim in under the curtain of water and sit in the cooler shade of the grotto. We usually had a dip each afternoon to coold down and break the cycle of sweat\/dry\/sweat that was normal for each day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The caravan park also had a coffee shop, Millie’s<\/a>. They did pretty good coffee and had a coffee and scone with jam and cream deal for $7.50. The scone’s were excellent! Almost as good as Rob’s and were generous in size such that one was all that was needed. Unfortunately these scones came at a time when we had both decided that we needed to drop a few kilos’s so we did tehm once and abstained for the rest of our stay in favour of lowering our daily calories and upping our exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As our second week unfolded we were rejoined by Julie and Ian, who we had met previously in Daly Waters with Terri and Greg. Terri and Greg had turned back east towards Queensland and Julie and Ian were tracking roughly behind us after having spent some time in Kakadu, which we didn’t. They setup across the road from us and it was good to catch up with them and hear about Kakadu and their places visited. They got the benefit of our experience in Broome<\/a> having done most of the things we wanted to do by then. It’s strange but not unexpected that you keep crossing paths with people who are following similar but not identical paths to yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Rufus the Frill Neck Lizaed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

We also had a resident frill-neck lizard on our site. We called him Rufus. He like to hang out in one of the trees beside the van and blend in as much as possible. He was quite a handsome chap and not all perturbed about us getting up close to observe him and take a few photos. He never raised his frill at any point though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other thing of note about Cable Beach Caravan Park<\/a> is the leaves. All the sites have trees dividing them (as Rob found out with the TV antenna). At this time of year they all seem to have dropped their leaves, which come and goacross your site with the wind like and inland tide. Now this gives rise to two things\u2026 the park ‘Leaf Guy’ and leaf blowers! The Leaf Guy employed by the park would pretty much spend his entire day sweeping the empty site’s leaves into piles so that the Trailer Guy could come around and scoop the piles up and take them away, to be repeated each and every day. It was like painting the Sydney Harbour Bridge; get to the end and start all over again. Then there were the semi-permananet van sites, two roads across from us. There were three in a row from where we could see and, like a Swiss clock, every few hours a little man or woman would pop out of the van with a leaf blower and spend the next five minutes anti-vacuuming the leaves out of their site (instead of hitting a little bell with hammer like a swiss clock). It needs to be said that leaf blowers should be un-invented or have $50,000 fines imposed for each and every use! That said, it was a bit of entertainment during happy hour.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>

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Cable Beach Sunset<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>
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Cable Beach Historic Marker<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>
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Cable Beach Camels<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>
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Cable Beach Camels<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>
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Cable Beach – Crab Hole Patterns<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>
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Cable Beach Entry<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>
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The caravan park was only 10 minutes easy walk to Cable Beach<\/a>, which is famed for it’s sunsets over the water and camel rides along wide expansive beach in front of the high dunes. At the closest point to us their was a life-saving training centre being built atop the dune. After a short walk north there was a cafe\/bar and a beach resort also atop the dune. Despite the caravan park being quite empty their was still plenty of patronage, which must have come from the other caravan parks and resorts.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Cable Beach Entry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

We only managed to get to Cable Beach<\/a> once in our first week. But in our second week we went down a number of times at sunset to enjoy the free spectacle, whilst getting some exercise by walking along the beach and watch the camels coming back from their sunset rides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tides in Broome<\/a> can be as large as 11m, which is pretty much what they were when we there. As such the beach gets pretty wide at low tide and given that it coincided with sunset there were 4WDs aplenty driving down onto the beach and heading north for some fishing or just to watch the sunset up further.
It’s quite hilarious watching people with no beach driving experience attack the sand or coming off the sand onto the concrete drive. They fall into two categories:<\/p>\n\n\n\n