(24 August) The wind continued today raising dust while we packed up outside. We took Blue to farewell our friends over coffees. I carried him over the few grassy areas, and took a chair for him to sit in to keep him off the ground to reduce the risk of ticks.
We had to leave our site by 10am but could not check in at Broome until 2pm. It is only 140kms from Barn Hill to Broome so we had to keep the critters cool for a couple of hours. Our first stop was the car wash to remove the worst of the red dust from the Toyota and Bushtracker. We had to wait for a bay so that filled in an hour.
Parking with the caravan around Broome is challenging. We stopped at Visitor Information to use the public dump site. Our next stop was the Vet Hospital to buy two tick collars for Blue – I bought a spare just in case we lose another one and tick collars are essential. We needed lunch so found an empty block where we could park to buy lunch.
When we finally checked into our caravan park, we were pleased with our beach front site.
We had accumulated washing so put a load through the laundry wachine machine. Walking around the park we met a black poodle the same size as Bluey, and who squats the same as Bluey. Two other poodle cross dogs joined the sniff and greet.
A couple of signs near our caravan convey disconcerting messages.
We tried to get a table at a couple of the larger restaurants, but they were fully booked. Instead we ate at the Little Indian restaurant, but the food did not live up to the reviews we had read.
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