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Guide to Broome
Western Australia
Broome lies at 18 deg south, on a peninsula, with 20 km of the fabled Cable Beach on one side and Roebuck Bay on the other. The Beach is something of a social gathering place in the evenings, and the venue of camel treks.
Broome has a pleasant climate by tropical standards as it is on the dry side of the continent and is cooled by the water on two sides. There are only around 4 days a year when the temperatures soar over 40 deg C. The best weather is from April to October, dry months with temperatures averaging 28 deg C. This is naturally the tourist season. There is an average of only 46 rainy days a year, of which 29 are January to March - the Southern summer.
An old pearling town, Broome was built up by a multi-cultural society of Japanese, Europeans, Filipinos, Aboriginals and Chinese. Pearling still goes on at a slower pace, and you buy top-class pearl jewelry as well as shell souvenirs. A museum housed in the old Customs House has a display on the pearling industry.
Its Chinese heritage lives on in a small Chinatown with pagoda-topped telephone booths. This was originally a conglomerate of pearl sheds, boardinghouses, billiard saloons and Chinese eateries.
Another delightful heritage from the past - and still going strong - is the open air movie house Sun Picture Theatre, built 1916. The movies may be the latest, but the feel of the place is right back at the frontiers.
It is 2,352 km north of Perth via the preferable coastal route or 2,200 km via the inland Great Northern Highway. You're pretty far from anywhere (Katherine, in the NT, is 1,566 km away), so take a break and 'slip into Broome time'.
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