Day 20: New chain and sprockets... $390 New radiator... $740 Labour... $(somearbitraryamount) Ten day in Broome when you had planned to spend three or four... Priceless! My motorbike is in the shop and awaiting parts from Melbourne. ETA: approximately one week. And I actually have a flight out of Darwin in two weeks! (I will explain this in a later update so stay tuned!). So I am settling in to the Broome lifestyle at the Kimberly Klub backpackers which I highly recommend to anyone heading up this way. I figured it is going to be an expensive week with my bike repairs so I may as well completely blow my budget and go on a few tours. My first was the sunset hovercraft tour given to me as an early birthday present by my sister. It is the only commercially operated hovercraft in the southern hemisphere. It was very cool but they wouldnt run over me in it, unfortunately. During this tour we checked out dinosaur footprints from a brachiosaurus (120 million years old) that stretched for 80 km and some a raptor. It turns out that Broome has more dinosaur footprints than anywhere else in the world! We cruised around a bit longer in the hovercraft until we pulled up for some champagne and nibblies at sunset. It was very romantic. We pulled up in the middle of the flats and it was incredible to realise that only hours earlier we would have been 10.4 m (Broome also has some of the largest tides in the world) under water. Even as we stood there the tide began encircling us and creeping towards us. The highlight for the following day was the astronomy tour. Greg from Astro Tours is a somewhat self taught astronomy who provided an interesting spin on astronomy, teaching it in a fun and intuitive way. It was very interesting to hear him speak. It was almost more philosophical than astronomical. We spent the night watching and learning about the stars as the earth rotated our perspective. In my spare time I have walked around Broome, checking out Chinatown, the steel built buildings and some other P.O.Is as well as catching up on some food shopping and all that fun stuff. The main event today hasnt actually happened yet but I intend to hit up the Sun Cinemas which is the oldest cinemas in the Southern Hemisphere (90 years or so) to watch the new Hunger Games movie. Gotta love Tight Ass Tuesdays. Pretty sure I have covered most things for the time being so I will leave it there for now. See you soon!!
Posted on: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 11:44:18 +0000
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