Played tourist today in Broome, visiting the Chinese and Japanese cemeteries with their exquisitely written headstones followed by a visit to the museum, which was fascinating with information about the Aboriginal history, the migrant experience (arriving post WW2), pearl industry and learning about what life was like living in Broome - a town literally at the end of the world. Quite a rough and ready town, it also had quite a strong social aspect reflected in t...

Today our car was booked in to Ford in Broome for a scheduled service, so Gadi dropped the car there at 8am and they dropped him off at the beach, while I spent the day at the farm where we are camped. I caught up on some hand washing, made a coffee and sat outside in the shade for a good part of the day, relaxing. The car took much longer than expected so Gadi was stuck at Cable Beach until 2.30pm when they picked him up. He enjoyed a swim and slept in the shad...

Woke up around 6 and left our gravel pit to head into Broome. Quite a few back packers were still parked there, and the loud German group already had their radio blaring as they sat outside. Headed in and stopped first at Town Beach to make some brekky and enjoy the beach/bay location in the quiet and cool of the early morning. Then we went to the visitor centre to get some information and then headed out of town to Buckley's Bush Camp, the farm we plan to stay ...

Woke up early, made a great cup of aeropress coffee and sat outside under the trees to contemplate the serenity. Today is my best friend's milestone birthday, and I am missing out on celebrating with her in person. So instead I wrote her a long winded private whatsapp message reminiscing about all the special memories and moments that we have shared over the last 20 something years. Given I have no internet, I saved it as a draft to be sent later when I had cover...

We packed up this morning, ate brekky and left the Auski road house caravan park heading north along the Great Northern Highway to Port Hedland. Once again we enjoyed the scenery as we drove by: the vast open yellow plains, the different sized termite mounds (some looking hilarious with white miner caps placed on top), the occasional cattle straying by the roadside, the bald eagles soaring above, the private roads leading to mine sites including Roy Hill, and t...