Broome

Broome…

Broome will hold some good memories for us, but as most of you will know, we will never forget our stay in Broome for the most tragic of reasons.

After dropping the TrakShak off at the Cable Beach Caravan Park we went to the local Saturday morning markets.  As we stood at the rear of our car a 6 year old boy ran onto the road and was run over by a landcruiser.  He died later that day in hospital.  All of us except Ruby saw it happen.  It occurred no more than 5 metres from us.  Jodi and I were the first to the scene.  The boy was with a large family.   It was dreadful.  It was worst thing that has happened in our lives.

We had some friends from the previous campsite also staying at our caravan park, so they looked after the kids while Jodi and I spent a lot of time that afternoon at the police station.  We know that there was nothing that we could have done to prevent the accident.  There were lots of tears that afternoon and evening.

Sunday was a nothing day at the caravan park pool.  The kids have handled it very well, though they didn’t know the boy had passed away until some days later.  Jodi and I are doing well, but the incident replays in our minds over and over again.

We had 2 more days in Broome.  We spent some time on Cable Beach, checked out some pearling history and took a camel ride along Cable Beach.

We will never forget our time in Broome.