Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Broome

Broome is one of the most talked about city on the coast. Once again it was super busy but someone just cancelled their campsite in a camp we pulled up at so we were lucky and got a good spot really close to Cable Beach. It is sooooo hot now, we spent a day wandering about town and then hit the beach and the water to cool down. And today we went for local specialty – camel ride! It was awesome. The camels are so cute! The must be the most relaxed animals I have ever seen. They are just chilling in the sand, then when asked they get up and go, the lay down again, chewing the whole time, totally unworried about anything. And one trivia fact – did you know that Australia has the biggest wild population of camels in the world? Apparently it might the last wild population of camels actually, so Australia actually sends camels to Asian and Arabic countries for their breeding and conservation programs. Also if anyone stayed awake during the movie Australia long enough, these camels appeared in it. Our camel is called Apollo and behind him walked his best mate Murphy, who wanted to catch with with our Apollo so we had an extra camel head by our side the whole time.

Broome je jedno z nejnavstevovanejsich mest na zapadnim pobrezi, tudiz opet narvano, ale nekdo zrusil svoji rezervaci zrovna kdyz jsme dorazili do kempu, tak jsme dostali jejich fleka. Je tu pekne horko, tak jsme se pocourali po meste a pak se usidlili na plazi. Dneska rano jsme vyrazili na mistni specialitu – jizdu na velbloudech. Bylo to super. Ty velbloudi byli uplne rozkosny. Navic to musi byt asi nejuvolnenejsi zvirata, jaky jsem kdy videla. Lezi v pisku, pak se teda zvednout, projdou se po plazi, pak se zase svali do pisku, celou dobu zvejkaj a je jim to vsechno jedno. Australia ma udajne nejvetsi a mozna i posledni divokou populaci velbloudu na svete. Ted dokonce velbloudy vyvazi do Asie a arabskych zemi na jejich pokusy opet vzkrisit tamni velbloudi poulace. Nas velbloud se jmenoval Apollo a za nim sel jeho nejlepsi kamos Murphy, kterej se celou dobu snazil dohnat naseho Apolla na pokec, tudiz jsme meli celou dobu vedle sebe velbloudi hlavu navic.

       

3 comments:

  1. First! :P
    See i am reading.

    Whoo hoo Camels!
    Gordie needs a shave.

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  2. So not only does Australia grow rice for the Asians, but we breed Camels for the Arabics? Next we'll be making ice for the Eskimos!

    Did you see any camel racing while you were in Broome? And I hope you and Gordie didn't get spit on!

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