Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Sunsets & stitches...

Since we left Karratha a couple of weeks ago we have been busy being tourists some days & beach bums other days...we get so relaxed sometimes we forget the day & dates which can be a little embarrassing at times. After Karratha we had a couple of nice river camp spots (we were very excited about having a camp fire again after a month without one!) We made our way to a place 130kms south of Broome called Barn Hill & this is were we turned into lazy relaxed beach bums & just enjoyed reading, walking on the beach, fishing, watching more amazing WA sunsets & generally just hanging on the beach & having fun...it was so warm (Winter? What winter?!) The kids even had a couple of swims in the ocean. We love Barn Hill as the beach is just stunning with amazing rock formations on the beach & also a great sandy beach which we spent many hours on playing cricket, footy, building sandcastles & just sitting around doing nothing much...heaven!

After Barn Hill it was off to Broome we go & I really didn't now what to expect & although I didn't fall in love with Broome it is still a really nice place & I thought the Cable Beach sunset would be just a big over hyped touristy thing that would be disappointing as we have found the heavily advertised tourist attractions often to be a bit of a let down but holy cow I was wrong the sunset over Cable Beach with the camels walking along it is a sight everyone should see for themselves, it truly is incredible! Thanks to some nice local advice we were given we drove onto Cable Beach & joined all the other four wheel drives & enjoyed nibbles & drinks watching the kids play on the beach, camels walking past & with the sun slowly setting over the water...really beautiful!!! The next day we set off very very early in the morning to catch the beach at low tide so we could walk out to see dinosaur foot prints in the rocks on the beach & we found them pretty easily, we just looked for the crowd of people taking photos of a rock...hahaha! It was actually pretty awesome seeing the dinosaur footprints & the kids were so excited to think dinosaurs were once walking right where we were standing. We did a few more tourist sight seeing things in Broome that day & went for a big walk on the huge Broome Jetty & got to see some cattle trucks loading cattle onto a ship to take them south. Glen had a fish but no luck with catching anything. It was another lovely warm (or hot) winters day in the north so we found a kids water park/playground & let the kids have a play while Glen went for a quick fish off the rocks & I sat relaxing reading a magazine. Then all of a sudden Zac screams this high pitch scream & comes running over to me holding his ear screaming that he had cut his ear in half!!! I had a look & quickly realised he had done a very good job at cutting his ear so told Tiana to run & get Dad as we were going for our 3rd hospital visit of the trip. Thankfully Broome hospital had just had a huge reno & was a really nice clean hospital so that made me relax a little bit. We got to see someone pretty quickly (one woman had been waiting 4 hours to see someone) but then the doctors couldn't decide the best way to handle his cut as it had cut the ear cartilage & so they started to numb his ear with cream & they all agreed it couldn't just be stitched & that a surgeon would have to do it because of how it was cut, the only thing for them to disagree about now was whether he had to go to theatre under a general or to do it in the emergency dept under a drug that would put Zac into a twilight state & while all this was going on Zac only had one major meltdown about it all & that was at the very beginning when he first found out he had to have stitches but after I explained it all to him & calmed him down the rest of the 7 hours we were there he was an absolute legend, the doctors & nurses even started calling him Bear Grylls (Zac was very excited about that!). At first we were told Zac was booked in for surgery at 9.30pm but then the doctors changed their minds & eventually they agreed the surgeon could do it with Zac in la la land in the emergency department which I honestly was much more comfortable with. Thankfully I was able to stay with Zac the whole time & although it was quite weird & abit hard to see him in a trance like state I was glad to be there to hold his hand. It was all over with very fast & as Zac started to wake up he found it quite funny that I had 4 eyes, 2 noses & 2 mouths...hahaha! Eventually at 9pm Zac & I got to go home to bed...he was such a champion my big boy. Unfortunately just as we were leaving the hospital we got to witness a young boy about 10 under the affects from sniffing petrol & that was a really sad sight, he was just so young & such a mess, very very sad. After our adventure packed afternoon we decided to stay an extra night in Broome to just relax & we really wanted to have one more sunset on Cable Beach & it was the perfect way to say goodbye to Broome.

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