Camels and Cable Beach
29 May 11
Posted at 12:19
I've just returned from a three week trip to Western Australia. The trip was to be an adventure photographing The Kimberley region by following the Kimberley loop from Broome up the Gibb River Road to Kunuwuru and back via the Great Northern Highway. The trip didn't turn out exactly as planned as will be revealed in future blogs. Circumstances resulted in us having to spend the first six days in Broome, well just outisde Broome at Cable Beach.
Cable Beach claims to be the 5th best beach in the world. 22km of beautiful white sand, this is the view looking south. Cable Beach was named in 1889 when it was the point that a telegraph cable was laid between Australia and Java.
Every sunrise and sunset there are camel rides along the beach to the North.
Images like this are the iconic view of Cable Beach, often used in promoting Australia as a tourist destinantion
Spending so much time there I have quite a collection of camels at susnset and no doubt various images will appear in the future. It was amazing how different the sunset was each evening.
Broome is the only major town between Perth and Darwin, about the same distance at London to Moscow. I was surprised as such how small it was. It is famous for the pearl industry, the gateway to The Kimberley, tourism, oh and yes, for those camels.
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