One of the top things on our bucket list to do in WA is the Horizontal Falls Adventure. I rang to enquire on bookings and they advise that the season is ending next week, tides are getting low, but they have two prime seats available for Thursday 29th. We decide to cut for it and book in, this gives us 2 days to do 1049 kms to Broome, it's a bit beyond our norm 2 - 300kms in a day. We set out to do 6 - 700kms first day, passing through Halls Creek and Fitzroy Crossing to a free camp 88kms west of FC. 
It's a hell of a drive, hot as and long day. We were going to pull up at Halls Creek for a lunch break, but ended up continuing out of town to find a shady tree along the road. There were no shady trees along the road, so we pull up at a truck stop. It was a very quick sanga lunch, this place was not pleasant it obvious a lot of travellers use this stop as a toilet...... As usual we enjoy the ever changing scenery along the way, we caught this bush fire in full swing, some how I don't think all that haze over Kununurra can solely be blamed on the NT fires.
We see a lot of rocky outcrops, escarpments along this highway. We've seen these doves before I think they have followed us over from NT (Devil's Marbles). It's spring and it's very entertaining watching the blokes do their little dance thing to impress the chicks, chasing them around, some lucky girls had 2 in pursuit. We wonder if they know what to do after they catch the girls?? This free camp was a nice spot, just off the highway (Ellendale), we decide to put the trailer up tonight and not do the camp under the stars thing.
There were 4 wizz bang vans, 2 caravans and us. Pity about the caravaners who had their noisy generator going all night to 6.30 in the morning. 300 odd kms to go on the 2nd day to Broome. So many straight long roads we have travelled, sometimes we wonder if there is anything at the end of these roads......
Guess what there is, this is our very own little patch of front yard at Roebuck Bay Caravan Park in Broome and I gotta say we are loving it! No humidity, the weather is a lot cooler, must be the sea breezes. We have booked in for 9 days, time to chill out and enjoy the surrounds. 
We have some resident seagulls too, makes a change to the whistling kites, parrots, corellas etc., we have encountered along the way. We are on the east side of Broome so get the sunrise every morning. There is heaps to see and do here, just off our shoreline is a few WWII plane wrecks, that can be accessed on low tide. Dinosaur tracks off another point, sunset over Cable Beach, heaps of different tours to chose from. We are up at sparrow fart tomorrow to be collected at 5.30am for our trip to the horizontal falls.
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