Broome Day FOUR

Broome Day 4

Charming courtyards inside the shopping center. 

After getting some stamps, we stood in the post office while I wrote messages on all the postcards. Henry wrote one to his best friend Max. 

This Chinese Restaurant was actually not in Chinatown

We walked the shops a bit in Chinatown and then headed to Streeters Jetty. It was high tide and surrounded with creamy green water and mangroves. 

We found a spot at the corner of Short and Carnarvon street where the planes taking off flew directly overhead. We saw a large jet and two boat planes. The airport is right in the middle of town so no matter where you are you'll hear them. 

Allen and Henry got "toasties," which is a sandwich with various fillings toasted in a pan like a grilled cheese sandwich. Henry had tomato, lettuce, avocado, and rashers (ham style bacon). 

We had waited all weekend to go to Millie’s Cafe for lunch. I had a veggie burger with beetroot. I asked what is in the veggie burger. She said it’s “bubble and squeak.” I was like, huh?  She explained “bubble and squeak” is an English term meaning a concoction of mashed potatoes and whatever veggies you have on hand. 

We had extra time before heading to the airport. Henry wanted to sit at the end of the runway and watch planes take off. We looked to see when the next flight was leaving Broome. It was our flight. So we scrapped the runway idea. Ha. 

We went to Cable Beach to see if we could find the dinosaur tracks. After searching aimlessly, we heard that it was not low enough tide to see them. 

I really loved the description of this art in the middle of a roundabout. 

FUSION: Interwoven Culture

The sculpture has a curved open form that echoes a pearlshell, a boat hull, a tear or water droplet. On each side, basketry encases pearlshells and timbers are bound with pitched rope, just like the skilled craftsmanship of traditional pearling luggers. At the apex of the artwork is a unique symbol with a symmetrical design based on ancient ideograms. Transcendent, it reaches up and beyond, to connect the earth with the sky, the ocean with the stars, family with ancestors and people with place.

It wishes you good fortune and balance in this rocky world.

MATERIALS: stainless steel, jarrah, rope and pitch, steel and copper

The airline served 100% plant based veggie fritters! More “bubble and squeak.” They were very good.

A camel sculpture outside the Broome Airport

So glad we came. I was a very nice trip in a very beautiful town. 

The white circle in the window is not a glare. It's the full moon riding the sky with us as we fly home. Since we'd seen it in Broome, it was nice to at least take the memory of it with us.