We just got back from a trip to the top end of Australia, where we spent two incredible weeks in Broome and Darwin. Broome is in Western Australia, in The Kimberley region. It is a remote and beautiful area, best known for the pearling industry and the second largest tides in the world (7 - 10m, second only to the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia). This was an area that we learned about shortly after arriving here two years ago, when we caught a documentary about a recently deceased conservationist, based in Broome. We got hooked on the Kimberley right away and planned to make it to Broome as soon as we could.
Shoreline in Broom (check out the beautiful blue water of Roebuck Bay, in the Indian Ocean)
The second part of our trip was to Darwin, the capital of the Northern Territory. There was so much more to see and do in Darwin than we imagined and we were so impressed by this little city in such a harsh climate. It was severly bombed in World War II and almost completely destoyed by Cyclone Tracy on Christmas Eve, 1974.
Darwin Wharf Precinct
This was a trip that was filled with as much activity as we could find time for. This is such a remote area that we really wanted to make sure that we did everything we wanted to, just in case we don't go back. We rode camels on a beach at sunset, went sea kayaking, toured a pearl farm, took a sea plane from Broome to see the amazing horizontal falls, went deep sea fishing, hiked out at low tide to hunt for dinosaur tracks, took a tour of Darwin's massive harbour, saw jumping crocodiles, swam in a mountain lake, held a baby crocodile and, in the midst of all that, had our wedding anniversary! It was an action packed trip and we will be doing many posts about it. Now we are back at home and getting ready to go back to work, and reality, tomorrow morning. Don't worry though, we have already started to plan our next trip!
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