The Animals of WA Part 2: Broome

On the first full day in Broome, dad and Wayne hired a boat and went fishing. They caught, Chinaman fish, Red Emperor, School Mackerel and Grassy Emperor. They also saw whales and sea snakes. While they were fishing, Grace, Emma, Mum and I went on a long bike ride around Cable Beach and stopped for breakfast. We had bacon and egg rolls and a jam and butter croissant. After our ride and breakfast, we went back to the caravan park, did school work, had a swim and then finally went on the boat. We didn’t do any fishing, but we did see whales and sea snakes. It was amazing to see the whales come to the surface of the water, spray water out of their blowholes and flick their tails.

Dad and Wayne

The next day, we rode our bikes to Cable Beach to do mum’s assignment.  In the afternoon we went to the Camels and got to walk up and down Cable Beach on a camel’s back! The camels were very tall and when they stood up and got back down it was very very scary! The camel that mum and I rode on was called Aqaba and the Camel that Grace, dad and Emma rode on was called Jordan. Aqaba was obsessed with carrots, while Jordan was the “wild one” and we were told that he was the first and only camel to swim in the Indian Ocean. The trainer told us that Jordan was lazy and while they were training him, decided that he didn’t like it, so sat down which snapped the safety rope. He then ran into the sand dunes, somehow got his saddle off and hid. They had to get a helicopter to try to get him out. When he came out of the sand dunes, he ran straight into the ocean. Luckily for Grace, dad and Emma he is a better behaved now, so didn’t do that on the ride! Did you know that you can tell how old Camels are by the length of their teeth? Camels can also weigh 1000kg or 1 tonne and when standing can carry half their body weight. After the camel ride we went to see the dinosaur footprints at Gaunthieme Point. Palaeontologists were flying a drone over the footprints to do more research. The footprints were not what I thought they would be like, but they were still pretty cool. Then we went to Roebuck bay to watch the staircase to the moon.

The next day we went to the markets then in the afternoon we went to Malcolm Douglas Wilderness Park. At the markets, we saw some weird type of parrot and we saw a Black Headed Python, a Stimson’s Python, a Rough Scaled Python and a few others. Did you know that Pythons and Tree Snakes are not venomous? We got to touch all of the pythons, and their skin felt very smooth. At Malcolm Douglas Wilderness Park, we got to hold our own baby Freshwater Crocodile. The croc was very squishy and soft and very cute and made little squeaky sounds. We also saw Estuarine Crocodiles, American Alligators, full size Freshwater Crocodiles, Red Tailed Kangaroos, Kangaroos, Emus, Cassowaries, Dingoes and Cockatoos. We went on a tour around the park, which was mainly about the Crocodiles. We learned so much about how Crocodiles behave and where they live and what their instincts are, which is exactly why mum enjoyed it even though my mum is really scared of crocs. Did you know, that estuarine crocs can hold their breath for 2 to 3hrs and only need to eat 1 chicken per week?

Broome was really fun, we did lots of cool things and saw lots of cool things. I still don’t think we have explored all of Broome yet! Hopefully we can come back here again.  

Black Headed Python