13 October 2022
The tides were right for an early morning visit to the planes (or flying boats) resting in the mud off Town Beach in Broome.
Destroyed by the Japanese during the attempts by the Dutch to evacuate civilians from Indonesia during WW2, they have rested on the sea floor since that fateful day. The story is tragic and well told by panels on the foreshore.
The planes though are worth the slog through a couple of kilometres of mud and sand at low tide to see. There are a few wreck sites and between them you can see wings, engines, large body sections and other debris. We’d been planning it the whole time we had been in Broome and it was an excellent, if early morning start.
