Brome Holidays (day six)

Tuesday 29 June

Another glorious day.

With our little rented 4x4 we travelled

about 220 km to Derby.

we saw a lot of ant hills
the jetty, the tide was coming in very fast

Derby wharf

The tide was coming in very fast.

The tides are Australia's highest, with tidal

variations as much as 11 metres.

loading side

the covered jetty to load the minerals

into the boats.

the old goal is next to the current

police station.

Myall's bore is 322 metre deep

the cattle trough is 120 metres long

and was built around 1917.

The trough could handle 500 bullocks

at one time.

click on the picture to be able to read.

Boab prison tree

is believed to be about 1500 years old.

at the top inside the tree

Claude is just standing at the entrance.

It is very narrow.

It was a staging point for Aboriginal prisoners

being walk into Derby in the early days.

The poor Aboriginals were treated very badly.

another boab tree and ant hill

wile in Derby we went to look at Christopher

2 properties. He is renting them out.

This one is a brand new town house.

Each unit has a up and down.

His is behind the tree.

the swimming pool of the complex

Christopher other property

we could not see much from the car and all

the shrubbery

Back at Broome

In the evening we went to the old open

air cinema

It is the oldest WORKING open air cinema

in the world!

A couple standing in the queue told us that

the last time they were here the movie

was Bonnie and Clyde and when all the

shooting was going on a jet plane passed

very low over and all the people got a

scare and screamed.

But no plane tonight

old movie stuff

and this is the movie we saw.

Robin hood