Broome and our long awaited swim at a beach!

At Broome- hooray, today we got to have a wonderful swim in the salt water! It felt so good to go to the beach! The water was a warm 24 degrees and it was about 30 degrees in Broome today, with a sea breeze keeping things cooler.
We arrived here at lunch, had a quick look around before heading to the beach- it’s a nice place. The sand is white and the water is aqua blue, just like in the pictures you see of the west coast.
We’ve now just come back from going to the outdoor picture theatre- the oldest in Australia I believe. It was good fun, and we watched a film about Broome and the Kimberley and the Aboriginal stolen generation and the missions here etc and the nuns. Very interesting. Also made us again feel ashamed of some of the things in our past and they way we treated Aborigines in the early days. It really was terrible. There are many social problems today which meanwhile need to be addressed. We’ve talked about it a lot, the causes, possible solutions, the frustrations, and don’t know what the answer is.

Happy to be near the sea again….love Emma and Adam xoxo

p.s. our poor old caravan Molly is not holding up too well- handles have fallen off, she has a distinct lean to the right, so that you always seem to be leaning downhill, and today Adam was trying to open a jammed window at the back and the entire pane of glass cracked- its right next to our bed. Our van needs some TLC and repairing. It resulted in a fair bit of stress between us this afternoon, but our swim helped soothe that!