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Broome, Australia

Day Two.  Early this afternoon we waked downtown and had brunch at ShadyLine.  I opted for a fresh detox juice with watermelon, cranberrry, apple and ginger and the quiche.  Chris searched in several shops for sandals because the strap on one of his broke.  The good ones were over $100 and he didn’t want to spend that much. Instead he went to a shoe repair shop, but was told it would take days to sew the strap back on-and as an alternative temporary fix for the day, he superglued it back on for $5. 

Everything seems expensive here.  Mom bought a souvinir beach towel for $22.  The cheapest towel I saw was at Target Country for $16 and that was a plain towel without a design. Otherwise, I’ve seen them for as high as $120 for a beach towel at a clothing store. 

Chris is browsing through the phone book reading about the state of Western Australia and the Premier of  the state, comparable to the governor, is: The Honorable A.J. Carpenter MLA.  We’re back in our Mercure Hotel room now.

Earlier, we stopped at a shop and all got some snorkel gear-figured it’d probably be a better deal to buy it than rent it.  I bought a little device that dispenses a little electric shock  to help prevent the discomfort associated with mosquito bites, mild jellyfish stings and more.  The electricity helps to block the histamines and neatrualizes the poisons.  I keep offering to zap them, but so far no takers.

We walked to the Mangrove Hotel for supper.  I tried Kangaroo for the first time.  It was interesting-the texture is kind of like steak, but it’s lacking in flavor.  It was served with a raspberry vinaigraitte sauce.  It was a fun night. We saw a couple bats fly into a nearby tree above a table of diners (we were all eating outside), and that reminded Bruce of a previous visit where he was standing on the sidewalk near a tree when a thick stream started shooting down-he looked up to see a great big bat was peeing.  He was astounded and hearing him retell it was hilarious.  He also told us about a place in Papua New Guinea where it’s like 100 degrees and 100% humidity with this really cranky species of bats that are vegetarians, so they swarm to these trees and hang upside down. They’re huge, like eagles, and real clutzes-so they fly at the tree and knock off a couple other bats in the process that go down squawking angrily-they fly back up and knock some others over-so it’s this really noisy tree full of angry squawking bats.  They just are these really pissed off creatures, he said, and most bats live in caves and come out at night-but it’s like nobody told these guys that-so here they are, black, absorbing all the heat and awake during the day.  He’s a good story teller, very visual. 

I really like the Sunbeam hot water maker-it heats up so fast-less than a minute for piping hot water.  Wonder if I could find one in the states-very convenient. 

p.s. Chris’s super glued sandal fix only lasted for about an hour, breaking on our walk back to the hotel.