Day 8 Broome

This morning was stressful for me, but by the end of the day so many wonderful, kind people helped me with the caravan that it really ended up being OK. A fellow caravanner took pity on my pathetic attempt at backing the car onto the caravan and offered to do it for me. Yes please! Then Ron at Overall Repairs unhitched it again and we were free to get out and explore Broome.

First stop the visitor's centre where we booked a tour of a pearl farm for Wednesday morning, then off to the Broome museum which was free for the kids and they each got an activity sheet to complete. The sheets covered all ages and abilities with Rowan just needing to tick pictures of items he found; Emma answering questions with one word answers and Ashley taking on more complex questions. They each had fun exploring the place and received a certificate of completion and a postcard of the diving suit displayed in the foyer.

There was a small kids water playground nearby at the town beach so we changed the kids into bathers and they ran around firing water cannons at each other for an hour. Then we grabbed some lunch and went to Gantheaume Point to see the dinosaur footprints. We couldn't see the real ones as they are only visible at extremely low tides and some were stolen in the late 1990's but there is a concrete cast of them to get an idea. What the kids thought was a huge footprint was really just Anastasia's pool. The thought was cool while it lasted, only to be shot down by a nearby tour guide from a group.

The repair man rang and said he'd sorted the door so off we went to collect the van before he left. He hitched it all for us as well. Lovely man. There are new hinges and it isn't perfect but it is functional. When we get back to Perth we will need a new door and frame. I thought I'd be brave and try to back the van into the site but then freaked out in the process. Fortunately the family next door to us (who were also at the repair place this morning) took over and between the two of them, backed the van in for me. Hooray! Their kids made friends with ours and we all had a swim in the pool later in the afternoon.