Goodbye Broome

Here come some last pictures from Broome.

The first is of the brightly orange coloured crabs in the mud of Roebuck Bay, where the Bird Observatory is. They hide quickly in their holes when you come closer.


Then comes a photo of what I think might be Broome's most beautiful beach: Reddell Beach. Peter and I went there on Sunday morning before he dropped me off at the airport.

Then we visited the port, where a nice breeze blew.

We also saw nearby Gantheaume Point (with the lighthouse and cliffs). At very low tide you can see dinosaur footprints there, but we were there at high tide, so we could only look at the plaster model of the dino footprints.


Finally we visited the Japanese Cemetery (Japanischen Friedhof) of Broome. The town had a considerable Japanese population because of the pearl diving and pearl farming industry.



My flight back to Sydney went via Perth and took about 8 hours in total. I took this photo just after take-off in Broome, an aerial view of Roebuck Bay.

My stop in Perth was only for 1 hour, so no time to see anything of the big city in Australia's west, other than from the air.

Now I'm back in Sydney. It's cold, dark and raining here. Brrr.