The End Of The Road Cable Beach Broome

This morning we delivered our four wheel drive, gleaming white back to the hire company. For us this is the end of the road after 34 days of 4WD adventure following the Gibb River Road through the Kimberley. We have travelled over 5,000km from Darwin to Broome via epic and remote bush wilderness, beautiful ancient gorges to swim in and 1.2 billion year old rock formations to ponder.

From our Heli flight over the Beehives at the Bungle Bungles and Zebedee Springs at El Questro to the remoteness and beauty of Mitchell Falls and our Horizontal Falls Seaplane Adventure, along with our friends, The Lloydes, we have conquered the Gibb River Road. We have shredded 2 tyres along the way, ran over our supplies in the 4WD, been covered in orange dirt, swam with crocodiles, landed on water in a seaplane and eaten the last of our chocolate.

Now we are in Broome staying at Oaks Cable Beach Sanctuary and enjoying a swim in the ocean at Cable Beach, a dip in the resort pool and an explore around town to find a coffee shop or two.

Broome town centre has preserved much of its heritage buildings and has been immaculately landscapes to create a modern, clean but laid back town. There are Pearl shops lining the streets in China town and following up on our pearling tour, we find and visit Cygnet Bay Pearl Shop to view the largest pearl in the world.

The Sun Pictures Cinema is the World’s oldest operating picture gardens historically preserved and still running movies today. It’s a last from the past and although we don’t watch a movie, it’s fun to walk around and take in all the cinematic history.

Following our walk through town, we make our way up the street to Mangrove Hotel to sit in the vibrant hotel beer garden overlooking the ocean mud flats. This is the perfect place for another viewing of Stairway to the Moon as the live didgeridoo and jazz piano build the atmosphere with background music. It’s a moment that The Walshies and The Lloydes sit back and truly enjoy this natural spectacle as a keep safe memory.

We have had some highlights on this trip an this is definitely one of them.Read more