Broome Australia

Broome is similar to Daytona Beach Florida, it's a place where Australians go during the winter (ie. 'dry season').

Today we are going to drive around with our new Australia friends Simon and Janet Jones.
Before picking up our rental car, we checked out the local Pearl shops, museum, Chinatown and the local market consisting of mostly Pearls and local crafts. We stopped for a coffee and learned that Simon used to be in the scuba diving business; he offered a lot of interesting information on the industry.The museum provided a display how they farmed Pearls. We found salt water pearls harvested from this area are ~200% more expensive than a freshwater pearl harvested elsewhere in the world but sold here.

Getting our car, we first checked out Gantheaume Point which was very beautiful. Just off this point are fossils of dinosaur footprints located offshore but only visible during low tide. The tide moves over 15 feet in this area and if you're not here at low tide, you can't physically get to the prints. Since low tide wasn't until 4:30p, seeing the prints wasn't an option for us; so I'm putting the local picture here.
A week later, I saw this article in the news indicating "Saltwater crocodeil spotted 50m off Gantheaume Point rocks", so I'm happy we didn't go swimming!
Our last stop was in a park where preparations were underway for a festival. It looked like it would have been a lot of fun.
Maybe next time!Leggi altro