Day 149

25 June 2013

Up early, caravan moved to storage area (FYI it is $35 a week or $7 a day to store your van in derby) and we are off to have breakfast at the indulgence cafe (which would be the nicest one in derby and I would highly recommend it) before heading back to broome for the night. The trip to Cape Leveque is close to a 3 hr trip from Broome and its almost 3 hours from Derby to Broome so we decided to spend the night in Broome to break up the trip a bit and will probably do the same on the way back. We like broome, like our second home so we don't mind spending a bit of extra time there!

Was like coming back to something familiar driving back into broome, not quite as good as it will feel to be really home but still not a bad feeling. We had to get some groceries and Joel wanted some new clothes so we did a spot of shopping. Since the boardies he wanted were $120 (what you'd pay $70 for at home) he decided that maybe he could just keep wearing the same ones he's been wearing the whole trip! He did get new shirt and hat which I'm sure will feature in some photos in the next couple of days.

We had some lunch at the divers tavern in cable beach and a few beers. We decided to try a different caravan park this time as it was only for one night...so we went to Palm Grove which is still in cable beach, just across the road from tavern. Paid our money, got our little map to direct us to our site, drove in, nice pool on the right, looks like a nice enough park.....kept following map and came to our site.....well the only way I can think to describe it is like an asylum seeker boat crash site. There was debris everywhere, bottles, dodgy cars, and masses of backpackers hanging around in handmade huts (tarps constructed in a way that vaguely resembled a roof) with music! And smack bang in the middle of that, was the tiniest clean area which was our tent site! Now I don't know if we have turned into van snobs or something but there was no way in hell we were parking our tent in that space! So back to the office and Joel honestly just walked in there and said to the lady "Nah that's not going to work huh! That's just wrong." Luckily they gave our money back and we headed back to our old caravan park knowing we couldn't do any worse than that!!

Set up for our first night in a tent for I can't even remember how long! Early night again ready for another early start on the road to Cape Leveque!

Carly & Joel

 

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