Keyla arrived early on Saturday morning at Broome airport. I was forced to get up at the crack of 8:30 to meet the plane at 9:30am. Keyla of course had to get up much earlier (5:00am) - that'll teach her to get me to book her 'plane tickets.
Keyla (along with the other passengers) alighted from the 'plane in full winter battle dress, as the weather in Perth was miserable and cold. At 9:30 in the morning in Broome it was not cold and miserable. Far from it. After a quick change of clothes before she melted - we headed out to stock up on consumables for the trip.
Things being what they are - and beer being beer - we of course ended up at Matso's Brewery for lunch and a (ginger) beer or three. Some supplies of beer were obtained and stored for the trip. With there being a very real chance that the afternoon could quickly and easily slip away from us on the verandah of the brewery - we decided to make a tactical withdrawl before things got too messy/comfortable.
A trip to the most marvellous and seriously excellent bookshop in Broome yielded a copy of "Kimberley Sun" by Di Morrisey which is a sequel to "Tears of the Moon" that Keyla picked up in Broome in July this year. For myself, I showed much restraint and limited myself to only a single book, "Geology of Australia" by David Johnston. My last visit to that particular bookshop in July had been an expensive exercise indeed.
We rounded out the day's preparations with a meal in a restaurant overlooking Cable Beach.
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