Exploring the Dampier Peninsular

Beautiful pearl worth $120,000.00

Cape Leveque scenery

Church of the Sacred Heart beagle Bay

Interior of church is beautifully decorated with pearl shell

Lunching at beautiful Cape Leveque

Wassa enjoying the water at Cape leveque

Wassa the 3 tea-bag man! He uses the left-overs from the rest of us.

Fay, Bob and Wassa talking to protester re Woodside Gas and Oil Installation

Ice-cream anyone?

Down on the beach for sunset

Wading beauties!!

Wading beauties and handsome friend!!

Tuesday 26/7 - Y and W caught bus into China Town and visited the Pearl Luggers Museum to hear of the pearling glory days of the 1900s - lots of divers died. The iconic Roebuck Hotel is nearby. B and F joined us and we had a lazy picnic lunch at Town Beach Park. Later nibblies cheese and bikkies, sipping wine and enjoying the sunset over Cable Beach. We haven't taken up the camel-riding option but we watch 2 trains of them walk by our campsite every morning and evening.

Wednesday 27/7 - Early start today to explore Cape Leveque at the northern tip of the Dampier Peninsular. Talked to road-side campers protesting the proposed humungous Woodside Gas Project here on the Kimberley coast. A team from 60 Minutes is in town to report on this protest. Enroute we called into Beagle Bay Aboriginal Community. A Roman Catholic Mission was first established here in 1890. A lovely church was built here in 1915-16 and is ornately decorated throughout the interior with mother-of-pearl shell. Cape Leveque campsite, Resort and beach provides idyllic "get-away-from-it-all" facilities, at a price. We then went on to the community at One Arm Point and stumbled upon an interesting and very successful Trochas Shell Hatchery, exporting their product to Italy for buttons, jewellery etc.

Thursday 28/7 - Last full day in Broome .Y and F headed for the laundry. B replaced a couple of car fuses and globes. W just lazed about. In the afternoon we cruised downtown for Y to have a haircut, some souvenir shopping and a little more sight-seeing. For our last sunset on Cable Beach we drove down onto the sand with dozens of other 4wd vehicles and mingled with the camel trains whilst watching another glorious sunset. A fitting way to end our time here in Broome.