July 2006
Broome Continued Well we did get back to Broome following our epic trip to Cape Leveque and ended up staying another 1 1/2 weeks. So what is this place really like. Firstly this is an extremely popular place in the winter or the dry months. The town is transformed from a very low key to an absolutely overrun cosmopolitan melting pot of people, mainly retirees from all over Australia. Broome would have without a doubt the highest profile of any place in Western Australia and Australia for that matter. It is the place that everybody is heading to, whether they are traveling North or South. It is not a place they are just traveling through but a place they are heading to, usually with the intention of staying for many months before being driven out, not by the desire to leave but by the impending wet and associated heat. To be perfectly honest we were a little fascinated by what attracts so many people to a small town that is so remote. Firstly I will give you what my mental image was of ...