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Another beautiful sunrise greets our awakening;  all pinks and reds as the sun makes its gradual appearance.  A rather large and impressive bull has wandered onto the rest area from the surrounding station and is gradually making it’s way around the periphery.  Eventually it is grazing a few feet from our van as we sit having breakfast.  Fortunately it is a placid creature, more interested in the grass than us. 

It should be about 80km to Broome – about an hour’s drive further along the highway, only we turn the wrong way out of the rest area and don’t realise until we’ve done about 40km! 

Duh!  Signage on the highway is very understated in this part of the world, consisting almost entirely of distance posts on the side of the road with the initials of the next town.  Ah, we should concentrate more, now it will take us twice the time to get to Broome!

We arrive in Broome late morning; our psychological half-way point on our road trip to Perth and where we intend to break the journey to kick back and relax for a few days.  And what a beautiful place to kick back in!  Broome town is situated on a peninsular surrounded on three sides by the Indian Ocean – such a delicate and inviting shade of blue.  Almost immediately we come across MacDonalds – the first since Darwin – and we have access to free wifi again!  Now we can really get down to researching the next leg of our trip.  The tap water is drinkable and there are public showers which all in all makes Broome is look a very attractive place to stop. 

Next stop is Cable Beach, a wonderful expanse of blue sea and white sand, where we stop for a late lunch on the grass in the shade of one of the palm trees.

We decide not to rough camp tonight, although there are supposed to be some secluded sites further up the coast around Willie Creek and beyond.  We investigate the track and decide that we will err on the side of caution after our last experience and as the sun is fading fast  we will settle for a caravan park just outside town.

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