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Other points of interest include Streeters Jetty in Broome’s Chinatown, Gantheaume Point with its contrasting red dirt cliffs and rocky outcrops meeting the turquoise sea.
When this eventually ends, I hope every- one holidays in Australia and spends their money here because our tourism industry has been crippled by this virus.
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Sunset over Cable Beach.
Some interesting reading is scattered around the place, where you could im- merse yourself in the good old days of a booming pearl industry and understand the hardships for the divers and workers when everything was done by hand.
When you travel Australia, you tend to be on the go all the time because you want to see as much as you can and you’re always wondering what is around the next bend. But sometimes you must force yourself to take it easy and remember it is a holiday!
Broome also had a wonderful night mar- ket at Town Beach, with numerous food vans, craft wares and assorted goods. We really enjoyed grabbing a selection of cui- sines and then sitting down to share. Plenty of nice grassy areas allowed us to enjoy the entertainment.
I wish everybody well in the coming weeks, months and hope everyone gets be- hind our Australian small businesses.
Our Aussie tourism businesses need some really good years ahead to dig themselves out of the hole they are in. Stay safe!
Broome runs along a small inlet, so there are no huge river systems like in the top end and you are a little limited to where you can go.
Classic posers at Gantheaume Point.
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industry, with numerous pearl outlets and
Unfortunately, I didn’t get to do much fishing while in Broome because I was im- mersed in the laid-back vibe and putting my feet up, having a holiday after our holiday.
a very rich history of pearling throughout the whole city.
Broome also has an open-air cinema (Sun Pictures), which is one of the oldest cine- mas on the west coast. It was an amazing feeling sitting on deck chairs on the grass watching a movie. Again, it really gives you a feel of the old days.
Streeters Jetty.
Quite a few dinosaur relics can be found around the area, with numerous dinosaur footprints petrified into clay bases, which the ocean is exposing as it erodes the foreshores.
On the fishing front, Broome has an amazing sailfish fishery, with great num- bers being caught every year in game fish- ing tournaments and charter boats getting clients onto fish almost daily.
The bluewater fishing off Broome is ex- ceptional, and the estuary can produce great threadfin and barra numbers in the warmer months as well as good mud crabbing.