ASIANOVERLAND.NET SYDNEY TO LONDON DAY 22: BROOME TO GANTHEAUME POINT, CABLE BEACH, THE KIMBERLEY

Snubfin dolphins live in Roebuck Bay, which is teeming with marine life. The bay has two other dolphin species, the bottlenose and humpback, many fish species, manta rays, eagle rays, dugongs, and six of the seven different species of turtles worldwide. The bay attracts 100,000 migratory shore birds that feed during the summer to fatten up before migrating to Siberia in winter.

Cable Beach, 7 km from Broome, is named for the Java-to-Australia undersea telegraph cable that reaches shore here. The beach is 22.5 km long with white sand, washed by huge tides that can reach over 9 meters. Directly east of Cable Beach over the dunes is Minyirr Park, a coastal reserve administered by the Yawuru people.

Broome is the only place in the world to see the rare Australian snubfin dolphin.

Broome is also great for sighting humpback whales, with over 35,000 whales expected every year.

Gantheaume Point on the south of Cable Beach is home to the 130-million-year-old dinosaur footprints which can be seen at low tides. Dinosaurs roamed the coastal marshes and swamp forests about 130 million years ago, leaving tracks in the sandy tidal flats and river channels.

Along Gantheaume Point to James Price Point on the Dampier Peninsula, you can see, swim and walk among the tracks of seven different dinosaur species from the Cretaceous period, including sauropods, ornithopods and stegosaurus.

Indigenous people of the Dampier Peninsula and wider west Kimberley have strong cultural connections with dinosaur tracks, the footprints tracing the journeys of their ancestors. 

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