Day 50 - Wednesday 22 August - More of Broome

Day 50

Wednesday

22 August

Broome

Another day in paradise. We were awake relatively early and keen to get up and into the day. After breakfast, we donned the walking shoes and wandered all the way into town. Paul checked in at the tackle shop for some info and then we picked up some bait. We stopped at a local café to indulge in a mango smoothie. It was the thickest drink I have had the pleasure of trying to suck up! 

Sustained by the juice, we wandered back to the van, grabbed the fishing gear and then drove on out to the port. Paul wandered along the gang plank, while I took off for the beach, eager to take some photos, as the tide drifted away. The longer I waited the more the reef became exposed and standing on the jetty platform gave a good view of the waters below. 

I stood with Paul as he tried his luck. We could see schools of fish below the surface, we even spied a sea snake and a sea turtle bobbing about. Paul did catch a small fish, but was unsure what it was exactly. It went back in. 

By 12.15pm, he was happy to pack it in and we returned to the van for lunch. I took my computer things up to the office, so that I could continue to load up photos to the blog and Facebook, it killed an hour before we needed to head back to the chiro for Paul’s follow up appointment. 

When he was crunched, we drove into town and stopped at the Mangrove Hotel. Paul was busy saying how much the place had changed. We made our way to the outdoor area, bought a drink and proceeded to a table overlooking the receded water and the mangroves. It was a nice spot to sit and hang out and should be perfect for the staircase to the moon on Monday.

Once our drinks were finished, we made our way back to the van. We watched an episode of Sons of Anarchy and Michael Jordan’s Playground, before heading out for a walk of suburbia, before the sun disappeared. 

When we returned, we set about putting dinner together and ate. Paul sat back and watched another S of A episode, while I went through the photos. We managed to soak up enough time, before organising ourselves and heading into town to check out the movie Breath,which was playing at Sun Picture Garden. Unfortunately, the session was for 8.45pm, so it would be a late one for us. 

We waited for the Incredibles 2 to finish and then the doors were opened and we made our way inside. We opted to sit at the back on the bench seats, rather than clamber into the deck chairs that Paul would struggle with. 

We bought choc bombs, that were finished before the role-call of new movies and then we settled in to watch the Tim Winton adaptation, that is set in Mum and Dad’s home town of Denmark. We spent most of the movie saying “that’s that spot.” “I know where that is.” Or for Paul, “that’s my fishing spot!”

The movie was entertaining, which was just as well, as I was freezing and I needed something to take my mind from it. It was all wrapped up by 10.45pm and we made our way out in the dark, returning to the van and straight to bed.