Greg and Deb's Travel Blog

Another tough day in Broome. We planned on doing very little, and I’d call it mission accomplished.

I spent most of the morning out on our deck relaxing, doing not much at all besides soaking up the warmth.

Our big thing for the morning was eventually letting housekeeping in to make-up our room. I had to go from the deck to the front door to make it happen!

We had an eventful afternoon.
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We woke to a beautiful day in Broome.

I took an early walk to the local shop, about a km away, to get some provisions, followed by a quick swim in the pool near our villa. We had breakfast out on our deck overlooking the pool, and inadvertently locked ourselves out of our room. With only our tablets, no phones, Deb decided to email reception to ask them to let us back in. In the meantime we spotted a maintenance guy, so I asked him for help. He let us in, in no time, it happens alot, even to them. A person from reception knocked on our door about 5 mins later, responding to Deb’s email, such warm, friendly, efficient service.

While we’re pondering our fate, dramatic huh, one of the local Agile Wallabies came by to see what was going on. Such good looking creatures. Continue reading →

We were out of our bnb at 7:45am and on the way to Perth Airport, Terminals 3 & 4. The terminal numbers matter, it’s about a 30min drive from Terminals 3 & 4(Qantas and Jetstar) to Terminals 1 & 2 (Virgin).

We dropped our bags off, got through security ok and headed to the Qantas Club to wait for our flight. Too early for anything from the bar!

Our flight was delayed 15mins, and we got away at about 10:50am and arrived in Broome a bit after 1.30pm. We collected our luggage and were on the transfer bus in a reasonable time. It was about a 10 min drive to The Cable Beach Club (the resort that Lord McAlpine established wayback in the day, 1988, lol).

Checking in was super easy, and accompanied by a glass of questionable Rose. We have a ground floor room in the Corella Villa. It opens out onto an adults only pool area. The room is very comfortable.

We had a quiet afternoon taking our time to settle in. Dinner tonight was at the Sunset Bar. With sunset at around 5:30pm, it was an early dinner. And it was delicious, I had slow roasted lamb and Deb had a chicken salad. We had a magnificent sunset to accompany dinner, it started at 5:20 and finished around 6:10.

Tomorrow we head into town!

Happy Mothers Day to our mums and all the other mothers out there.

Today also marks 10 years since we moved into our home in Adelaide City.

Last night, after the blog was posted, P sent us a text with photos of the Aurora he had taken from his back yard. So at about 10:20pm, we were out in the street in front of our bnb taking photos of the southern sky. The Aurora isn’t visible to the naked eye (in suburlit streets), but we both got some photos of it, Deb’s were much better than mine, as you can see. Continue reading →

We had a lazy start to our day, relaxing at our bnb, so comfortable.

Late in the morning we headed over to P and A’s place, and were immediately grabbed by H to go and play trains with him. He has a wooden train track set up on his bedroom floor, and we spent lots of time driving the train around, knocking down wooden block Towers that magically appeared on the tracks. And then using toy diggers and cranes to make everything right again, until the Towers were knocked down again, on repeat. 🙂
J came in to add to the fun. H set limits on what J could and couldn’t do, and J was “mostly” compliant. Deb tried to distract J from the trains by reading him a book while she built Towers and rescued trains from the devastation. So much fun. Continue reading →

We started our day early, with coffee and tea with P, A, H, J and Chip as well at Mullaloo Beach. Walking into the cafe, we got the best, melt your heart greeting from young H, waving and calling out to us. Big hugs were had with everyone, so good to see them all so happy and well.

After a while H asked me to go for a walk with him, he had something to show me. So off we went along the foreshore path (after watching very closely for any bikes or runners – H insisted!). He took me along the path for a short while until we took some steps towards the beach and another path lined with mosaic tiles mounted on rocks. He showed me all his favourites, mostly the sharks, and a big Red Back spider. It was good to know he knew all about Red Backs and not to touch them. He laughed and joked about having all the sharks, and other sea creatures in his bath at home.

Eventually, Deb P, A, J and Chip came to see where we were. By that time H had taken me to a playground, we had tested the slippery dips, played pirates and jumped around on all the stepping stones. So much fun, precious time.

It was time for H and J to head to child minding and P and A to get to work. We’ll catch up with them all again tonight for dinner.

We headed off to Joondalup Centre to pick up a few things from the shops and headed back to our bnb in Connelly to relax a bit, and begin to get into holiday mode.

We had a very relaxing afternoon winding down. It was so good just not doing anything.

Around 5:30pm we met P, A, H and J at the Craigie Tavern for tea. We had a fun night. Lots of laughs, time with the little ones and to top the evening out Pat won the meat raffle, about $100 of meat. BBQ at their place tomorrow evening!!

DAY 1. First stop Perth.

Greg and Deb’s Circumnavigation of Australia- well almost, with a detour to Bali in the middle.

See what happens when we got invited to youngest nephew’s wedding in Bali!
Naturally we were up for the adventure!!

We dropped Louis off to his dog sitters, did our final bit of packing and were in the Qantas lounge by 2pm waiting for our flight, and Greg got his mandatory bourbon and Coke to signify the start of our holiday, and Deb had a G&T.

First stop, Perth.
We arrived around 5:15pm, got our hire car, (we booked a mystery car for the first time with Europcar, we finished up with an MG5 Sedan), our bags eventually turned up and we were at our Airbnb in Connolly around 7pm.

For directions to get here we tried to use Google maps on voice, but all the directions were being given as we got to where we had to turn, NO WARNING! So we reverted to Maps by Deb 2.0, and the skilful direction got us here safely, after a couple of user errors. Lol

It’s nice to get to a familiar comfortable place to stay. Exactly how we remembered it, very comfy and nice provisions.

We got a invitation from our nephew to go to his wedding at the start of June in Bali.

Of course we said yes, and immediately thought of what else might be possible.

Inside 15 minutes or so we had a mud map for a great looking holiday, almost circumnavigating, Australia.

This is just a teaser, stay tuned and all will be revealed.

We leave on 9 May 2024.