Day 31 – Fitzroy Crossing to Broome
Driving today 396km to Broome
Off early to get the 396km of bitumen road behind us!!
Hanging out for a swim! Whilst in FC, we made contact with a member from a
camper trailer forum, MySwag,org we are on. A member, Steve, who lives in
Broome had offered to help us find any parts we needed after the trailer hitch
went for a hike. Gave Steve a call and he has been running around checking to
see if anyone has the parts we need. Anyway, we had a few availability issues,
but we have a week to get something sorted. Also noticed that one wheel hub on the trailer
was running a lot hotter then the other. Damn, I need to pull the hub off and
check the wheel bearing. I have 2 spare sets, grease and all the tools, I just
have to make the time
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| NOT Photoshopped - that's the real color!!!! |
Arrive in Broome just after 1:00pm, and head to the Cable Beach caravan park where we are booked
in. Head to our site, set up and head into town to look around. We haven’t been
to Broome for 10 years and we didn’t have a car, and a lot has changed.
WE get trailer stuff sorted, and Treg are sending up a new
“U” coupling by express post cheaper than I can buy one in town (genuine article) Order Tuesday, and
we pick it up Friday from the post office. Thanks to Trisha at Treg Engineering
for helping us out!!! Great service!!!!
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| Sam and Max Standing on a real "live" Dinosaur footprint - Probably a stegosaur |
Dinosaur Footprints are visible while we are here. Its only
at certain lower tides and we scored. Kids up early as low tide was at 0706 on
Saturday. Decide to leave Mandy and boys at the market and I’ll do the wheel
bearing on the trailer.
Eventually pull stubborn wheel hub off, outside bearing
falls out, looks ok. Start to punch out inner bearing, and decide for some
reason to check that the replacement is the right one. Guess what? It wont fit
over the axle!!! Massive thanks to the Nimrod at the Bearing place for picking
the wrong bearing off the conversion chart. Next time I’ll get Timken! Repack
original bearings as they looked ok. Grease looked ok, not metallic. New
grease, same bearings L don't know why the hub is hot though.......
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| Cable Beach - "nuff said! |
Every day has been over 30 degrees, so swimming every day.
Kids having a ball. Either beach or pool. Kids bodyboard at beach. Love it,
even after Max got thrown off a few times and was a bit apprehensive, we got
him back out there and its now his favourite thing he did on Broome
Anyway, highlights(and low lights) for Broome:
a) CCable Beach:
ridiculously famous for a reason! If you ever go and have a 4x4, drive down at
low tide, head north on the beach and go about 1-1.5km past the “clothing
optional” part of the beach and you will find the most amazing flat white beach
and hardly any people…… superb
b) CLand of Pharaohs Kebab
in Paspaly Plaza. AMAZING kebabs, and for Broome, very reasonable priced at $11
reg and 13 Large (Melb expect to pay $8-$10 reg and $9-12 for large. Great
staff and cool funky atmosphere
c) D Well, to be fair, The Blue Sea Fish
and Chips near Coles was pretty good, but when it cost $62 for 4 people, I was
thinking I should have been getting table service not take away!!!!!! Burger
was $12, but came standard with cheese, onion, beetroot, carrot, lettuce,
tomato. Still, a bit rich for mine!
d) Cable
Beach Caravan park. Nice staff, clean, modern. Pool was amazing. Great place to
stay even if we were in WA school holidays.
e) CJimmy Howard. This bloke was staying in the van behind us.
He used to live “up these parts” but now calls Qld home, but comes back every
year. Handy C&W singer, and all round nice bloke. Told us how his mum “passed”
recently, at 107 years old!!!! Sad to see him still sad about it, but it was
fairly recent. Really nice bloke. Turns out his neice, Tammy, runs Middle
Lagoon caravan park! We promise to say hello for him!!!
f) C Steve from Myswag.org. Absolute legend. We didn't end up being able to catch up due to work schedules and him packing for his own trip, but he ran around checking out who had tow hitches and U couplings and was just brilliant!!!! Thanks Heaps mate. Owe you many beers!!!!
f) C Steve from Myswag.org. Absolute legend. We didn't end up being able to catch up due to work schedules and him packing for his own trip, but he ran around checking out who had tow hitches and U couplings and was just brilliant!!!! Thanks Heaps mate. Owe you many beers!!!!
Bit sad to leave. I keep hinting how WA ambos get paid
$25k a year more than we do, and how I
could move here. Not met with popular reply. Something about cyclones..........
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