Saturday, Sep 10th, Broome

 

Greetings!

Today began our latest adventure in the South Pacific.  Ninety-four days in Australia, New Zealand, and the South Ocean.  Our Outback Spirit Guide/Driver (John) picked us up after breakfast at the Cable Beach Resort (the site of an undersea communications cable between Australia and Bali), and drove us to the airport, north of the town.  

Stopping first at the local Japanese Cemetery, dedicated to Japanese who died in the area's long historical pearl shell industry, to those who died in support of Allied interests in WWII, and to those who worked in the mining industry for the many decades it has extracted ore from this land,  

The nineteen of us on this tour were instructed by our pilot on flight safety, and on the day's itinerary.  In a Cessna Seaplane similar to those without sled that I helped maintain while in Vietnam, we flew to the famous Horizontal Falls 100 miles north of us for the afternoon.  We had lunch, swam next to sharks, and rode a jet boat through a narrow passage in the tidal flow in which a million liters of sea per second moves during a four-hour period each day.

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