… wait for no man.
My dissertation on the massive tides of north west WA was timely. Since I wrote that piece two more vehicles have drowned on Cable Beach. The photo above is from the Broome Advertiser in 2021 but it is by no means an isolated incident.
You can drive on Cable Beach. Fun. You need to negotiate some rocks at the entry point. For access and egress you must first head down towards the water. This can be significant.
In the latest cases one was a local guy in a friends car, the other a tourist in their own car. This did not require investigative journalism skills, this is a small town and they are the talk of it! In both instances the occupants parked and went for a walk.
Their return was timely but … the local guy had lost the car keys, the tourist vehicle had a flat battery (lights left on, perhaps – hard to tell now). Help was summoned but by the time it arrived the tide had reached the rocks. And like the people in the photo above all concerned could only stand and watch.
bobmcgee 