Broome fishing - Day 3

Today was our off day from charter fishing. We wanted to try out the land-based fishing out of Broome. With some info gathered from the local tackle shop and deckie, we headed out to the rocky headland near the Broome Jetty. According to the deckies, the best time to fish was 2hrs before the top of the tide. The tide changes were quite vast. Difference was about 8m!

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So armed with lures and jigs, we headed out to the place. We made our way to the outer rocks and
began tossing our lures. Just standing on the rocks, chucking lures in the emerald sea was kinda therapeutic. After countless casts, we didn't get any hits at all. All the fishing-looking holes and spots were covered with no success. I just happened to look back, when I realized the water was rising fast, covering the path back to the beach. I quickly told Bruce and we packed up and  made our way back on the rocks. The water was already covering most of the rocks and we had to move calf-deep across some  submerged rocks with strong waves crashing over it. Thankfully we made it across safely and up to the beach. When we looked back at the rocks, the waves were already covering the most of the rocks! We would have been stranded on the rocks if we had waited 5mins more. Or swim back! We were really close to being caught out by the rising tide.

As the only other places to fish was from the beach and we couldn't cast that far out, we decided to head back for lunch. After lunch, we decided to go check out Willie Creek, according to the locals, another good fishing spot. Willie Creek is located north of Broome and its where the Willie Creek Pearl Farm is located. But Bruce's GPS took us to the Willie Creek Pearl Farm store! So we inquired at the store and was told that to get to the Farm, one would have to drive through dirt roads. And some cars have been bogged in at some parts. A 4WD is recommended. We decided to go anyway just to see if we can make it through. We got to the dirt road part and it was all red!

Not too bad as our humble small car trundled through the dirt road. Then we came to another section when the red earth turned into white sand. The sandy track was single lane and the initial track looked ok so we continued. Bruce has 4WD driving experience so I let him decide on whether to carry on or not. Soon we were flying through the sand track as according to Bruce, if you slow down, there's is more likelyhood that the car will get bogged in. The deeper we got down the track, the sandier the path became. I was really worried at this stage because the car brushed the bushes a few times due to no traction on the wheels! When we came to a clearing with some grass on the side, we pulled over! At that point, we both knew it was a BAD idea to have driven onto the sandy track. We made a 3-point turn and began to head back out. We managed to get back to the red earth track safely without
any cars coming in the opposite direction! If there was, we would have been bogged in for sure! As we exited the dirt road, we both heaved a sigh of relief and thank God for our safety.

As we headed back, we stopped by the famous Cable Beach. The beach was so beautiful and we saw the infamous camels being led to the beach area for the sunset ride. The sand was powdery white and slow gentle waves lapping. The waves went out a long way, from the beach to the water line was about 200m! It was just an awesome sight! Managed to take some pictures of sunset over Cable Beach.
What a sight!