After a long and not particularly wet, wet season, people in Broome start looking for any sign of the coming dry season. After several months of overnight lows as high as 28 degrees, April sees the town grasping for indicators. The dry season heralds many things including shiny four-wheel-drives driven by greying baby boomers, towing caravans through town. They often divert past the post off ..

Broome is a well-known hotbed of talent. It’s a dynamic community that has for many decades been a magnet to artists from all over Australia. They have been drawn to the creative environment of the small northwest coastal town. Before this recent migration of creatives, Broome’s pearling industry provided the perfect conditions for the development of a uniquely distinctive musical style. The t ..

Broome is such a rhythmical place. Its home to some of the best-known Indigenous musicians in Australia as well as a raft of talented non-Indigenous musicians, all busting out unique Broome inspired tunes for everyone to enjoy. The Pigram Brothers captured a different kind of Rhythm in their Broome anthem I Feel Like Going Back Home. The opening verse talks of the annual cycles of Broome.  ..

Broome has lots of interesting infrastructure. It’s home to a beach that’s named after one of the most important infrastructure projects of the nineteenth century. Cable Beach is where the Banjoewangie, Java to Cable Beach sub sea telegraph cable emerged. Broome has more roundabouts per head of population than any other town in the world and it has a new lookout built at the top of Dampier Ter ..

Broome's Cable Beach is world famous for many things, including 22 kilometres of sun-kissed white sand, turquoise water, spectacular Indian Ocean sunsets and camel trains. But its what its not famous for that can really provide the unsuspecting with the ultimate and wonderous delight. Between 1 November and 28 February each year a group of volunteers monitor six km of beach for signs of marine ..

The colours of Broome must be seen to be believed, and often aren’t believed even when seen. Broome’s palette of colours is broad and vibrant and prismatic. The light in Broome is crisp, clear and unpolluted, allowing the raw pigment to have the illusion of vibrating in the sun. The two most noted colours in Broome, the turquoise of Roebuck Bay and the paprika red of the famed pindan soil ..

For most of the year being a weather forecaster in Broome would be the most boring job in Australia. It would be like a fine and sunny ground hog day with a maximum in the low thirties and an overnight minimum in the teens or low twenties. No-one bothers talking about the weather as “nice day” gets a bit boring and repetitive. People in Broome simply come to expect that the weather doesn’t cha ..

Broome is certainly one of the most unique places in Australia if not the world. It has an extraordinary history due to the central role it played in the production of the pearl shell. That history saw people from many parts of Asia come to Broome to make their riches and leave their legacy on the town. Broome remains connected to Asia socially and culturally as well as physically with the his ..

Broome has become the roundabout capital of the world, with more roundabouts per capita than dogs, and Broome is a dog-lover’s town. In a bid to remain traffic-light free, the Shire of Broome has invested heavily in roundabouts for its traffic management strategy. While they mostly help to keep traffic flowing freely, they have also caused one of the longest running community debates in Broome ..

There is a strange phenomenon that occurs to people who visit Broome. Its been the subject of much research since Einstein published his theory of general relativity in 1915 (just one year before Sun Pictures officially opened), in which he determined that massive objects cause a distortion in the space-time continuum. That space-time distortion has its greatest impact in Broome, where visito ..