Life on the beach

I've spent a lot of time on beaches recently, it's such a tough life! Cable Beach in Broome was pretty amazing. Very few people are there at the moment because it's so bloody hot - 38 degrees at one time, but it's got really clean white sands and luckily you can hire umbrellas for the day as you can't stay in teh sun for more than about 15mins at a time. You can also do boogie boarding there which was fun and the sea was so warm it was like being in a bath. The waves were too small for surfing, but pretty good for the boogie boards and I didn't end up drinking that much sea water! I can also recommend sunset there if you ever make it to Broome. Other than the beach though, there's not a lot to Broome,some surf shops,a supermarket,McDonalds,Subway, it's probably nicer when it's about 10 degrees cooler. I also took a tour into The Kimberleys, which is a group of national parks a couple of hours out of town. Went to a place called Windjiana Gorge where normally you can see loads of crocodiles, but we only saw one and that was a long way away. Then we headed to Tunnel Creek which is pretty cool as it is an underground creek you can walk through. The deepest it gets at the moment is knee high, but they still walk through it when the water is waist deep. I'm not sure I'd like to go there then as there are 6 freshwater crocs that live in the creek. Saw their tracks, but none of them wanted to come out and play!
Had a long and not particularly pleasant bus journey to Exmouth on Sunday. It took about 21 hours with one change of coach at 2am. All the way there was an annoying buzzer going off which apparently meant one of the cargo doors was open, but it wasn't an they coulnd't fix it. The video player also broke 10 hours in. Not as bad as it could have been though as both the coaches coming the other way had broken down and were 3 hours late at one point. The next night a german girl who is heading the same way as me had a 3 hour breakdown in the middle of nowhere and they had to flag down a truck (which took an hour) to get a lift to the nearest roadhouse cos the cb radio wasn't working!
When i got to Exmouth at 5am, I had a 3 1/2 hour wait at the visitor centre for my pickup to go to an eco lodge on the Ningaloo reef. the place is on a beach with a lagoon where no-one goes and the coral reef is about 2 metres out from the beach. It's very chilled out and I did a lot of snorkelling there. Saw 3 turtles,starfish,several giant clams, a reef shark and hundreds of fish. I was there for 1 1/2 days, then had to head back to Exmouth which is not the best place to be if you haven't got a car. There's not a lot to it, and even the dull town beach is about 20mins walk out of town. At least i only wasted one day in town there and have now moved onto Coral Bay which is as it's name suggests a bay with lots of coral in it. The water here is a bit colder, but really calm, so will grab some snorkelling stuff and head out there later. This is another 2 pub town,but the hostel where I'm staying seems good with stuff going on so should be a good few days.