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Living in Broome, through Broome-time. Blue skys, green palms, and no white clouds to shadow the city or bring specks of rain down upon the nomads, natives, or nudies.     These moments so special - Are they better shared with some significant other, or better to be relished and absorbed alone?   Broome is anything but lack-Lustre, combining the magnificent colours of Mother Nature; Reds, blues, greens, browns, with the energy and vital vibe of her human counterpart.   Come for work, play, swim and sun. Relax and absorb the beauty of this land, for you may leave different than when you arrived - with a little piece of Broome left in your heart.

830am, Thursday May 5th, 2011.  What a big few days!  I arrived in Broome on Saturday from Darwin, where Melissa met me at the airport.  Melissa is really lovely and a lot of fun.  She is putting me up here till I get settled.  Broome is awesome - it's a small pearling town of about 15k people, but in the dry season (may-oct) it gets up to 45k people!  Cable Beach runs alongside Broome and is one of the top beaches in the world!  Beautiful white sand stretches for miles, outlining clear blue water going as far as the eye can see.  Being on the west coast, the sunsets are incredible too.  Melissa often goes for walks on the beach after work, so I've been tagging along.  During our first walk, she said that it's always different and I wondered how the beach, sky and sea could always look so very different.  But now I understand!  Colours, clouds, glossy sand, sun, those little balls the clams make on the beach... Really incredible.  I've been swimming several times (twice...