December 5th - 10th Broome Time again

Broome time again yay! On Friday I drove down and participated in a community event with a friend called “The Broome Splash n Dash”. It started at 5pm with a 5k run and it was still flipping hot! But knowing the swim was the next part pushed you that little bit extra so you could jump in the water sooner. But after the 500m swim I was still sweating and red in the face. We both ended up coming second in our gender groups- not a bad effort. Then we rewarded ourselves with delightful Japanese – 3 courses num num num. I was supposed to stay the night in a hotel room with another friend but sadly she unexpectedly had to fly home so I had the big bed and the lovely room to myself. In the morning I woke up and ran down along cable beach with all the other joggers and walkers and early rises. The sun beat down but I didn’t risk cooling off in the ocean with the possibility of lurking irrakanji – not that it would cool you off much, the water is like a hot bath at this time of year. So back to the hotel for a swim in the pool. Then out to coffee and breakfast at my favorite Broome café. I met some more Derby friends then and we did our chrissy shopping and I spontaneously bought myself a beautiful willy creek pearl for Christmas. Back to the pool. Then a pre-dinner drink at the Mangove which provides delightful views of the ocean and sunset. Dinner is booked at the nicest restaurant in town. A few jugs of sangria later we move on to a nice ambient cocktail bar for cocktails and delicious desert. Broome weekends are really just excuses for degustations and coffee. Sunday morning we are picked up at 7 for our big day of fishing! We are taken out on a big boat to a secret location in the middle of the ocean- no land is in sight. We are given rods and bait… “Now what do we do?” The other group of people were keen fisherman and were reeling in fish left right and centre- red emperor, giant somethingorother- just shit loads. And we couldn’t catch a thing! I reeled in a Samson and something else but it was too big so they had to be put back  We kept at it though – in between Matso’s ginger beers. At the end of the day we had one little fish- so the other group made sure we didn’t go hungry and they gave us 5 more fish to bring home! So nice. And that night we cooked up a storm and everyone came over to our little house and we bought chippies and it was all a big chaotic fun.