Day 345 – Camels

• Broome
• 34°c

First stop today was the Broome Historical Society to check out some history and some really cool artefacts.

Ella & Oscar love the old divers suit, reminded them of something out of Scooby Doo!

I loved the old telephone switchboards and vintage house decor, very cool. The museum also has a shell collection that was good, but Ella commented "If this is in a museum, they should see Mama Peggys house!"

We took a drive down onto Cable Beach, no camels at that time of day but there were a few nudists sunning themselves, Steve & couldn't help but giggle when Ella & Occy saw the nude baskers and couldn't believe people would do that! Count was 5 men, 1 lady.

Our camel tour was at 3:15 so we headed down the beach about 3pm and were delighted to see the camels making their way down the road and up the beach.

We chose the Broom Camel Safaris as the lady that owns and operates it has a farm out the back where she cares for over 30 camels and they currently have a baby camel born only weeks ago. She treats them like pets and really loves them, her story is very interesting. There are estimated to be at least half a million wild camels in Australia and yet I still haven't seen one in the wild!

We were introduced to Abbasim and were able to pat him, he is one of their most gentle camels and the one that loves the attention.

For todays adventure Isaac was taking Steve & Oscar and Boaz was taking Ella & I. The guide told us that Boaz was their most recent adoptee and is only 10 weeks from the wild, so I think I can take that as my wild camel!

We were seated on our camels and told to lean back and hang on as they stood up! Occy was a little concerned especially as he was seated at the back on their camel but after a minute he was fine. Boaz kept nudging and blurting on him, must be because he knew Oscar was nervous, the whole ride he constantly walked with his head next to Oscars leg rather then behind Isaac like all the other camels did. Ella and I were a little concerned at one stage where Boaz was so busy walking sideways to see Oscar that we thought he was going to trip over himself.

We all thoroughly enjoyed the experience, camels are such beautiful, gentle and intuitive creatures. Ella & Oscar asked if we find one in the wild can we keep it? Only if you can get it in the caravan!

I tried a new pastry for some pizza rolls and they were soooo good, only problem was I didn't make enough.