Stay 5 Nights Pay for 4 at Seashells Resort Broome

Located only a short walk from Cable Beach, Seashells Resort Broome offers a range of self-contained accommodation in 1, 2 or 3 bedroom fully self-contained apartments and bungalows nestled amongst tropical styled gardens.

The free-form swimming pool is the perfect place to relax on comfortable sun-lounges while the family play in the separate children's paddling pool and play area. A perfect family get-away!!!

Stay 5/Pay 4 - 1 Bedroom Apartment - $840.00. Valid 1/11/08-31/3/09 (excludes 20/12/08 ro 4/1/09).

For more information contact Best Of The Kimberley on Freecall 1800 450 840.

It is whale watching time!

As they have for countless centuries, whales are currently migrating north along the Western Australian coastline to Camden Harbour where they will calve over the coming months before returning to southern waters later in the year.

For the first time, regular whale watching tours have commenced in Broome and Rosemary from Best Of The Kimberley ventured out on a perfect Friday afternoon last week aboard the fastest charter boat in WA "Observer", to experience the wonder of these great mammals. A spotter plane quickly located whales as Observer sped to the location. Within minutes water spouts and giant splashes from the whales were seen. Over the next 2 hours, numerous humpback whales were seen making their way along the coast. Seasnakes, green turtles and a pod of Indo-Pacific dolphins also kept us in wonder.

Broome has not been well known for whales, but they are often seen just off the coast by local fishermen and they have been known to come quite close to shore off Cable Beach. Now one of Broome's best kept secrets is available for all to enjoy. Contact Best Of The Kimberley on freecall 1800 450 850 (or http://www.kimberleytravel.com.au/) to book your whale watching tour. $120 per person, for a 3 hour tour includes hotel transfers.

The History of Broome's Street Names: "Cable Beach Road"

Cable Beach is named after the telegraph cable that came ashore on the beach from Banjowangie in Java. The original cable laid by the British Eastern Telegraph Company went to Darwin but it was laid on a volcanic seabed and suffered so many breaks, that it was decided to establish another station at Broome as a safety net, when the Darwin link broke.

The submarine cable was finished in 1889 and with it came "Cable House". By 1912 the cable had been transferred to Cottesloe (WA) and Cable House became the Broome Courthouse in 1921 and is still a functioning Courthouse to this day, and the site of the well known Saturday Courhouse Markets.

(Source: "The History of the Street Names of Broome" by Carol Shaw).

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