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Eighty Mile Beach and access to Karijini NP (22 - 23.11.2008)


The readers of our blog (especially the loyal!) Will have been asked since the last report, where's sly us well. We decided against the Cape region at Cape Leveque, "because we will be at a sufficiently even during our trips to the coast and the other option, the Karijini National Park, located on the other hand, on our route south. We therefore leave our tracks in the deep and narrow canyons of colorful Karijini NP. Of what we on the long road (850 KM) in the area have seen and experienced to act the next lines.

Having at noon on the 22.11.2008 our cause in Broome "finished" (shopping, car fill up, Internet-Cafe-visit) we have - as explained in the introduction - moved towards Karijini NP. The route mainly by straight lines and has to offer neither right nor left great. Only Busch, Busch and Busch again - always the same ... The time we spend with a very "objective" discussion of driver to passenger seat, and vice versa. For evening and night rest, we drive a campsite (the only one in this area) to the Eighty Mile Beach. Actually, we want to camp burn wild, but in the absence of opportunities and we must better or worse, set up on the camp. How do we stop, do not necessarily have it quite displeased that the reception as left when we arrived and was already on the next morning at 8 clock back to "receive payment service" occurs. Since we must continue in all the "dawn", we have paid in these circumstances to be no possibility of the "camping fees. Too bad ... but also enjoys

The sunset is especially on the endless beach and the long car ride, we are glad to bring some "gymnastics" moving again our paralyzed limbs. Even a great and rare sea turtles can be observed in search for a suitable egg-storage place on shore.

The next morning's breakfast is more about Port Hedland towards the hinterland to Karijini NP. In Port Hedland's short lunch break and we fill the fuel tanks once again chock-full of reasonably affordable fuel. The place is all about the iron ore industry, anywhere in the world each year shipped more tons of iron ore in the world than here. Actually, an unsightly and will not be worth mentioning artificial town, yet somehow fascinating. The snow-white salt mountains are impressive.

to the park entrance in Karijini are already 250 to back down again whose 350 kilometers to go. Not exactly jubilant swing ourselves to the well-worn seats of the Land Cruisers. Somehow, we get "the belt" behind us and are in the late afternoon at the park entrance, where, after brief minutes of the orientation is already familiar dialect is heard. The result is a stimulating and information-exchanging communications with another Swiss travel team, consisting of Silvia and Marcel. After 600 kilometers, like endless car waiting for the writer no longer a cold beer from the fridge and board shall be decided mutually to the camp area set up next to each other in order Weiterschwatzens. While extensive and very nice introductory round-install one on the next course of two guys who not only attract more attention. After a brief hello turns out that the men, Reto and Theo are also Helvetic origin. Even more extensive chatting across the seats is a result of this finding. Suddenly all sides of the hunger is rampant, all-refrigerator and content merged together into a gourmet menu. Everyone clearly enjoyed themselves babbling in local dialect the events of the last days of the soul - Swisstalk halt - spontaneously and abundantly, as in the holidays! :-)

With increasing evening and night hours is still Gin (Tonic) served, which caught some players, however, one or the other glass too much. Information about who has caught just is not quite unwittingly fallen victim to censorship of editorial.

Gallery Eighty Mile Beach - Karijini NP

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Broome (18 - 22.11.2008)


Now we are - after a total of some 3,000 KM - on the northwest coast of Australia to Broome sea encounters. At the entrance to Broome we head straight for the much-vaunted Cable Beach. A 25 km long white, especially at low tide, very wide, sandy beach, which you sections can even navigate by car. We reach our destination just for the afternoon time when the sun is slowly approaching the level of the ocean. And then we drive down the access road to the beach: bright turquoise blue because he is the Indian Ocean, constantly surging wave his white crown on the flat beige and white sand beach and the "elapsed" with wispy clouds on the horizon sky falls into the sea.

car doors, trunks on the hips and into the sea - ah, the glorious, so "full control of the leave" to be! Extensively is splashing in the bathtub to grow almost endless webs. What followed is the Sunset really does what the Guide promise. Simply amazing! You can not see it enough, as it approaches the fireball of the water and then merges with burning colors in clouds on the horizon, sky and water. The landscape is cloaked in this colorful light from blue, red, orange and beige and white tones, accompanied by the roar of the surging waves and the breeze of the ocean. We sit once more just as amazed ... and

There is agreement in the travel team, at this beauty spot a few days with nothing or do little to spend! A little beach, a bit lazy, a bit of sitting at the bar and a drink and a bit of shopping. In Broome's all in perfect unison, which is during the holidays looking for - and especially now in the postseason are the tourists away and there is the usual (Western) Australian "easy-going" in the motto "no worries"! Broome achieved fame with the pearl fishing in the late 19th Century. Multitudes were natives, and then later, at the beginning of the last century, immigrant South Asians from China, Malaysia and Indonesia exploited for the dangerous Taucherei. The merit flowed into the coffers of the ship fleet owners. Hundreds died in the risky job - chord Diving - died. This is shown by a cemetery that was created in the small town in honor of ausgeboteten Pearl Fishers. Far can Broome Write to the flag, to have the oldest cinema in the world, where today every night films. A "Cineplex" totally sympathetic way: old, genuine and permanent partial "open air". Once again,'s say the pictures are better than the language (see photo gallery).

pass so the days in flight and we absorb the feeling of beach, sun, wind and water (great temperatures around 32 degrees, always a light breeze, complete absence of flies and all other annoying bugs!) To the last fiber on. Even on an extensive shopping spree by Broome's China Town is no way. The clothes shops with products from the surfing scene also consider "non-eligible athletes wave" magically. It's full of "Quicksilver," "Billabong", "Rip Curl", "Elements" and so on only pretending. The insider knows what may follow something like shopping for unstable characters. We came anyway, as it was already suspect, not with empty bags from the Shop ... :-)

one - at least for us - noteworthy fact is the search for suitable places to stay. Even before departure, we have known us through a "trip-pair", which the continent through their own explorations knows very well, find out where appropriate in Broome wild campgrounds are related to. We found it right away - many thanks, Rachel and Philip!

digging through a few narrow dirt roads along the cliffs, our Landi sea near by bush before we parked it on a picturesque cliff and set up our camp. Which sounds to accompany us in the comforting sleep quickly told: that of the waves and wind. And once in the morning take an eye full of sea view in the spectacular light of the rising sun. Perhaps no hotel in the world offers such exclusivity! Purism has its qualities very well!

Meanwhile, the calendar shows the 11/22/2008 and we decide to move on slowly. Where exactly we do not yet know in detail. Possibly to Cape Leveque, a former Cape landscape on a peninsula just north of Broome, which is however only be achieved on dusty 4-WD track or further south towards the former Portsmouth with a possible detour to Karinji NP inland. You're going in the next report to find out where we have left our mark. Thank you for your interest and all that you are online with us! See you soon and have a good time!

Gallery Broome