Broome and beyond

It's Cup Day when we arrive in Broome and I think we get the last bed available in the area.  It is a little B and B/farmstay with very basic accommodation but wonderful ambience. Suddenly we are starting to feel closer to the tropics......aaaahhh hello warm weather!
Dinner on Cable Beach is a must so we unload the trailer and drive onto the sand to wander and watch the sun setting, the last time for us, over the Indian Ocean.....a perfect evening.
Next day we head East for the first time. Again the landscape changes and I am loving the gorgeous boab and bottle trees...one is so massive and hollow from the inside, that after close inspection I imagine I could make quite a comfortable home out of it.
Getting off the beaten track is not an option as we are fully loaded and our tiny 6 by 4 home made trailer would not cope well with endless corrugations and rough track.  So we opt for the great northern highway and pledge to come back another time to experience the Gibb River Road.
Ducking of the highway we decide to have lunch at Geikie Gorge, near Fitzroy Crossing. A superb oasis in this harsh land and I happily dip my toes in the water forgetting for a moment that we are now in croc territory...Whoops!