Geoff jumped out of bed in time for sunrise and went down to the beach to take some photos of this beautiful spot. We thought we would try something different and spend a night in a house in an Aboriginal community. So we called ahead and booked into a community called Lombadina. We are paying $200 for a pink fibro shack in a community of 70 or so aboriginal people. There is a general store, a clinic, a school, a bakery and a church and not a lot else. We are no...

This place, Whale Song, is beautiful. We are about 150kms north of Broome on the Dampier peninsula. There are just a couple of other campers here and we are perched on the top of the red cliffs above the white sand. A short walk from the camping area is a cafe which is in the middle of nowhere but serves great coffee and delicious cakes. We then went off to the beach for a swim at a place called Middle Lagoon. The water is lovely and warm and the sand was host to...

Damn that low tide, Geoff dragged us out of bed again this morning at 630 to go and look at the wreck of 1 of the Catalina sea planes that were bombed by the Japanese in 1942. We had to walk 1km out on the tidal flats to find it. There was a very heavy fog this morning which meant we couldn't see more than about 50 metres around us. Lucky for the compass. We did find the wreck - very interesting. We then drove out of Broome and further north up the Dampier Penin...

Geoff dragged us out of bed at 630 this morning in search of some 126 million year old dinosaur footprints. They are only visible when the tide is at a dead low which only happens a couple of times a month. We found the footprints - marvellous! The rest of the day was spent wandering around Broome and learning about some of the history, in particular the pearl luggers. The highlight of the day was our sunset camel ride on Cable Beach. The low light was Benjie a...

Drove from Derby to Broome today via an aboriginal community where we watched a film and purchased a piece of aboriginal art which is being sent back to Sydney (let's hope it makes it). Accommodation in the camping grounds in Broome can be very hard to come by. The grey nomads from the south east who are escaping the cold arrive in early June and plonk themselves down and don't leave until September. Anyway we luckily snared a spot. Once set up we went off to a ...