We had an ‘official’ town tour this morning. Lazy start (9am) but all the people at breakfast at 7:15 we’re wearing Outback Spirit badges (more than one group here). We’re getting well trained. 5:20am start tomorrow – before breakfast. But I digress …
So there was an osprey and nest on the ‘lighthouse’ tower at Ganthaume Point at the southern end of the peninsula;
sample dinosaur prints in the concrete nearby – the real ones are only visible at very low tides.
Then the Japanese cemetery – mainly pearl shell divers – did you know that they were mainly diving for pearl shell for buttons? Real pearls were just a bonus.
Then I left them to check out the town which I did yesterday and I headed to the museum. More on the Japanese air raid that sank 15 Catalinas in March 1942 – mostly filled with Dutch women and children fleeing from the East Indies. And some interesting stuff about the WA Shipping Line that serviced the coastal communities from around 1889 to 1957. Passengers and freight. Somewhere in there there was a service from Liverpool to Australia via Singapore and Broome.
And I promised a photo of a modern steel house. Ran out of time to get what I wanted but here is an example of a unit at the Cable Beach Club Resort.
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