Cable Beach is 4.3 miles from town along a bitumen road. The beach itself is 14.0 miles long with white sand, washed by tides that can reach over 30 feet tall. The beach is almost perfectly flat.
Broome has a semi-arid climate and has two seasons: a dry season and a wet season. The dry season is from April to November with nearly every day clear and maximum temperatures around 86 degrees F. The wet season extends from December to March, with maximum temperatures of around 95 degrees F with high humidity. Broome's annual rainfall average is 24.22 inches, 75 percent of which falls from January to March. Broome averages measurable rainfall 48.4 days a year. Frost is unknown and temperatures during the cooler months have dropped to as low as 37.9 degrees F. The highest temperature recorded in Broome is 112.6 degrees F in December.
Lanee and I took a shuttle from the ship into town and then got on a Hop-on-Hop-off bus. We went to the Japanese and Chinese Cemeteries and Cable Beach. At the beach you can ride camels. They have a note worthy event called stairway to the moon that occurs at low tide during a full moon. Another low tide site is dinosaur footprints; you just have to be there at the right time to see them. The rocks and beach at the cruise terminal are very red.
