Fly Ted Down Under Journeys through the land of Oz

Broome & Cable Beach

AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 5 June 2011 | Views [347]

Laneway culture exists in Broome too, on a small scale. Little annexes such as this connected the main streets and offered some shade and maybe even a bit of air conditioning wafting through.

The Male Oval (named after a town founder), a large Aussie Rules playing field in the middle of town. It was frightfully hot to walk through most of the day, at least from 9 am to around 4:30 pm.

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Carnarvon Street, one of the main drags in “Chinatown,” which is what they call the historic original heart of Broome and still today the main commercial and tourist area. Despite the fact that there were never many Chinese living there, on the contrary Broome was well known during its big pearling days as being about two-thirds Japanese. The Japanese were the most capable and willing divers, willing to take on the many risks inherent, and would work the pearl season in Broome to send money home to Japan. As a result, there were many Japanese businesses and even a Japanese hospital which catered to the community. China never had much to do with it at all, but these days all the signs say “Chinatown.”

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