Broome and Cape Leveque

Well we haven’t done of these for a while.  We were going to do one the day before we left Broome but instead we just got pissed and went out…

Since our last update we briefly visited the Millstream-Chicester National Park which was on the way from Karijini National Park to Karratha.  Unfortunately our visit to Karratha wasn’t as brief... best thing about that place was leaving.  From Karratha we headed for Broome were we passed through another shit hole Pt Headland and checked out 80 mile beach.

Millstream-Chichester National Park

A couple of dirty cars in Karratha

Then the Broome bender began… starting on a Wednesday night at the Divers Tavern at Cable Beach and ended over a week later with a big night out at ‘The Roey’ (Roebuck Bay Hotel).  In total we spent 8 nights in Broome and we were drunk for 7 of them… Good times!

The start of every night... Emus!

Wet T-shirt contest at 'The Roey'

Wet T-shirt...?

The highlight of our week in Broome would have to be the very loose day at the Broome races, which was fuelled by vodka we had snuck in and involved Matti and Bennett giving ridiculous interviews for a local radio station about our thoughts on the recent development to the Broome racecourse.  Matti was particularly impressed about how they had painted the stairs bright yellow so people can see them and won’t trip over them…

 

Matti doing his interview... so funny!

The eyes of a very drunk man

Kicking on from the Broome races at Matso's Brewery

One of the many drunk nights at 'The Roey'

Trouble...?

Skeat in his element with a local farmer

Another highlight would be Tuesday night at the Murphy’s Irish pub which started with Matti getting refused entry because he was wearing ‘boardshorts’.  They weren’t boardshorts at all, they were going out shorts but the bouncers argument was that they were shorts you would were at the beach.  Absolutely ridiculous!  So we headed back to the caravan park and decided to be ridiculous ourselves.  This involved Skeat and Alex (a German bloke we met) putting their wetsuits on plus a goggle and snorkel and a nice pair of shoes and together heading back to Murphy’s. 

Matti had changed his shorts so got let in straight away and surprisingly Skeat and Alex got in straight away too.  The bouncer defended his decision but stating the rules which are – no boardshorts and neat, clean casual dress (so he considered wetsuits as neat, clean casual dress).  Matti was fuming!  Funny thing was that at Divers on the first night the same bouncer stopped Matti and only Matti and asked him for ID before letting him in.

Matti getting asked for ID... these were also the shorts that were later called boardshorts

Skeat and Alex in neat, clean casual dress

... and to add to Matti's pain the girls loved the guys in the wetsuits

Anyways there are more stories from our time in Broome but the details and memories are a bit vague... but it was definitely an amazing week!

Cable Beach

Volleyball at Cable Beach with our German mates Phillip and Rosanna

Surfing at Cable Beach

 Sunset at Cable Beach

Caravan Park shenanigans... the best caravan park ever!

So dreamy...

While in Broome we also headed up to Cape Leveque for a couple of days.  It’s a pretty amazing place and we by far had our best day fishing up there, which included six decent sized trevally and a fair crack at catching a shark. 

Our endevours to catch a shark started traditionally with a rod and reel but after a couple of snapped lines we thought we came up with a failsafe way to catch and land a shark.  This involved some universal Telecom rope, some wire, some hooks and Matti’s tow bar.  Unfortunately we got plenty of bites but we only had snapper hooks and the sharks were just bending the hooks straight and not getting hooked at all.  Bigger hooks and we could have caught about 5 sharks.  Some very fun fishing though!

Cape Leveque

Fishing at Cape Leveque

A successful day fishing... all caught in about 15 minutes.

Shark fishing

One of many failed hooks

Stay tuned for another new post in the next couple of days... and if you haven't noticed from the photos we have had the most amazing weather... blue skies, very little wind and the temperature around 30 everyday.