We spent one morning out at the lighthouse at Gantheaume Point trying to find the dinosaur footprints. Took a while but we found them eventually. You can only see them when the tide is at a certain level a few days each month. They are approximately 350 million years old. There are lots of them all along the coast.
Some more magnificent Kimberly scenery.
We took a day trip to a place called James Price's Point. It is about 50km north of Broome on another red dirt track. It has become a very controversial area with Woodside planning an enormous gas plant here in the near future. There are protestors living out there permanently, trying to cause as much disruption as possible. We stopped at their camp and had a chat to them. We wanted the kids to hear their side of the story. Although we didn't really hear Woodside's and the government's side of things, we cannot work out why you would want to destroy such a beautiful place? Here is what it looks like, hopefully these won't become the "before" photos.
Unfortunately the time has come to say goodbye to Broome. We stayed nearly 4 weeks and would love to stay longer but there is a lot more of Western Australia to see. We hoped Michael might be able to find a job here and we could stay but there is nothing at the moment. However if an opportunity comes up it would be very hard to say no, so we are hopefully saying see you later and not goodbye to Broome!
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