Broome (again)

Day 44 , Sunday 25 July

Pleasant and quick drive back down the Peninsula to Broome. We had an early lunch / late breakfast at the Dragonfly cafe in the Chinatown area, followed by an afternoon of admin ( clothes washing and drying). In between admin we lazed in and by the pool.

In the evening we went to see the phenomenon known as the ‘Stairway to the Moon’. This occurs on a few nights during the dry season ( no clouds) if the full moon rising over Roebuck Bay coincides with a suitably low tide. The resultant reflections across the mud flat creates the impression implied by the title. So we joined a few thousand others out front of the Mangrove Hotel to check it out. It was actually pretty cool to see – as described in the guides.

Dinner was a rarity on this trip – takeaway pizza in our Air BnB room while watching Netflix. Nice change from camping!

Today we drive south and west to Karratha. We will ‘bomb up’ for a week in the Pilbara while there and check out the indigenous petroglyphs on the Burrup Peninsula.