Start from 33 curated places around Broome, AU, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
Matso's Broome Brewery
A pub-brewery in a heritage Chinatown house with a wraparound verandah looking over Roebuck Bay, doing pub plates, woodfired pizzas and the mango, ginger and chilli beers that put Broome on the craft-beer map. The default Broome lunch and the place every visitor ends up at least once. Lively, casual, and one of the best verandahs in town.
Cable Beach Sunset Bar & Grill
The Cable Beach Club's casual open-air grill perched on the dune above the beach, with shaded lawn seating, woodfired pizzas, burgers, and cocktails timed to the sunset. Walk-up, no booking, and the easiest way to watch the camel train and the sun drop into the Indian Ocean with a drink in hand.
Trails & outdoors
Minyirr Park Coastal Walk
A network of sandy walking tracks through the coastal monsoon-vine thicket behind the Cable Beach dunes, on Yawuru country. Several loops of 1-3km link Cable Beach to Gantheaume Point through tracks of pindan and pandanus, with interpretive signs on bush food and Yawuru culture. Flat, shaded enough to walk year-round in early morning.
Reddell Beach Cliff Walk
A clifftop walking route along the red pindan bluffs between Gantheaume Point and Entrance Point, with multiple drop-down tracks to the beach and rock pools below. The unofficial sunset walk for locals — about 3km one way along the top, plus optional scrambles down. Big colour and almost no crowds.
Things to do
Sun Pictures
The world's oldest continuously operating outdoor cinema, open since 1916, on Carnarvon Street in Chinatown. Canvas deckchairs on a tin-roofed open-air floor, current-release films, an old-school candy bar and the planes from Broome International occasionally roaring overhead because the runway approach crosses the cinema. A Broome rite of passage.
Broome Camel Safaris (Cable Beach)
One of three camel operators running sunset trains along Cable Beach — the silhouette in every Broome travel brochure ever made. A 60-minute ride up and back along the wet sand at the tide line, finishing as the sun drops. Touristy, yes, but unmistakably Broome and oddly meditative on the camel.
Landmarks & sights
Cable Beach
Twenty-two kilometres of white sand and turquoise Indian Ocean on Broome's west side, named after the undersea telegraph cable that once landed here. The sand is hard enough for two-wheel drives north of the rocks at low tide, and the unbroken horizon makes it the country's most theatrical sunset spot. Lifeguards patrol the central flagged zone in dry season.
Gantheaume Point
A headland of pindan-red cliffs dropping into turquoise water at the southern end of Cable Beach, with 130-million-year-old dinosaur footprints visible in the reef at very low tide. The lighthouse and the rust-and-blue colour clash here is the other postcard Broome image after the camels. Free to visit, open all hours.