2 Week Recap Continued...

Amy here!

So pretty much Coral Bay was amazing, although looking back, the two of us agreed that only a day there was really all we needed.

From Coral Bay we caught the Greyhound (grr) for a 23 (I think) hour bus ride up to Broome - sans air conditioning. Lovely. Of course, when we arrived in Broome, we scrambled for accomodations, which we were lucky to score at the Cable Beach Backpacker Hostel. It was pretty nice, considering we hadn't slept in beds for almost a week. We spent our first day in Broome cruising the "town," which is about the size of Bremerton population-wise. We caught the bus - on which the drivers were the nicest we've ever encountered! - and headed into Chinatown, where there are actually no Chinese restaurants whatsoever, but instead there's Som Thai (pun intended). Souvenir shopped for a bit, but really didn't get much considering the prices are outrageous. That night, we met up with our new Greyhound friends (Kim from Canada, Kim from Utah, Markus from Munich, and Norman and Desiree also from Germany) for dinner at this great little cafe called Blooms. It was here that we joined a gang complete with Smirnoff tatoos and everything! Kidding. Some drunk girl walked up to our table while we were eating and gave us all temporary Smirnoff tatoos which we stuck on our forearms and dubbed ourselves the Smirnoff gang. Sweet.

So we woke up on day two in Broome and found ourselves without accomodation for the next two nights as the backpackers was full. Brilliant. After making a few calls, we raced down the street (about 1/2 mile away in the blazing sun with our packs on which weigh about a ton) to secure the very last campsite at this nice little caravan park called Tarangau (Tear-an-gow). After setting up our lovely little blue home in the red dirt ("Hey, Karina." "Hey what?" "Red Dirt!" "Whoo!"), we headed out to Cable Beach, which is THE beach of all beaches. Miles of pristine white sand, warm sun, cute surfers, beach volleyball players (making you jealous again?)... it was great. We decided to stay for the famous sunset, which was surprisingly, the best we'd enountered. Molten red light just filled the sky... we got some great photos. So after the spectacular sunset, we received another bigger surprise, which had been lounging just a few meters down the beach from us. Can you say rich, attractive, young businessmen willing to take us out to dinner? Oh yeah!

So after I've whet your appetite, we must go for breakfast, but more on them later...

Cheers!
-Amy