80 mile to Broome, Cape Leveque & back to Broome

Dear grade 3,
We left 80 mile beach to Barn Hill I thought there was going to be sheep and everything there but there wasn't  but there were a whole load of cows. We saw hermit crabs, one kept pinching me I called him 'Pinchy'!

We did long walks on the beach. There were big cliffs and loads of shells. We went fishing  our bait was prawns we left there to broome.

We went to a cafe called dragonfly i had a mango smoothie 🐬 mangos are a local tropical delicious fruit.

We stayed at the same caravan park it was called "cable beach caravan park" we swam at the beach we all got told there was an salt water crocodile in the water😨 it was scary but awesome at the same time!



On tuesday we went up to cape leveque, we took tents because  the road was very bumpy.

Along the way we stopped at Sacred Heart Church at Beagle Bay. It is famous for it's alter and decorations made of mother of pearl from oyster shells.

We stayed near the reception of Kooljaman resort on the 1st night and the 2 other nights we slept down on the beach in a shelter, there was a shower, a goanna hole that we never saw. We swam at the beach, the waves were awesome and bumped you around ALOT! We had dinner in the camp oven.

We did a spear making cultural tour with a person called Bundy and there was a little puppy there on the way. I called it Buster.

Bundy said that the girls make the food and the boys get the food. Bundy showed me how to find some food in the sand. It looked like a little onion and you had to peel it and it was white in side. Here's a photo of me foraging for food.



Bundy told us that at the sand dunes the Swifts lay their eggs and the chicks hide under the seaweed. On the other side the turtles come up the beach to lay their eggs. It was a good tour.

We left Kooljaman and drove up to Cygnet Bay. We did a tour of the Cygnet Bay Pearl Farm. Our guide was called Terry. Terry lived there since he was a baby and he went to school there. The room where we learned about pearls was his old school room and he found it hard to do school work when he could see fish flipping out of the water through the window. Very distracting.

The really round ones that are smooth with cream colour are really, really expensive. They come in all sorts of shapes. Some look like drops and some have patterns. In where you find the pearls there is also some meat. We ate some from the oyster we opened and it was yummy. It was $200.00 per kg!!!
The oyster we opened had a pearl inside.

We returned to Broome again and we're now getting ready to go to Derby and the Gibb River road.

From Grace.