Beach Bums - Part 79

 Cable Beach, Broome Australia

Cable Beach in Broome, Western Australia, is a beautiful 22 km (14 mile) long stretch of white sand.  Tourists can take camel rides on the beach, which can be stunning as the sun sets into the Indian Ocean.  (Note: these riders are not nude, but the camel rides go through the nude section of the beach.)

The southern end of the beach is not clothing optional, but beyond a wall of rocks near the vehicle access point, the northern 17 km (11 miles) of beach is a nude beach.

Here is the beach by daylight – a dazzling stretch of white sand.

The beach was named Cable Beach after an undersea telegraph cable that was laid from here to Java in 1889.

A beachgoer, front ...

and rear.

Although the beach looks very wide at low tide, tides are extreme here, and the beach can virtually disappear at high tide.

Another beachgoer.

The water is shallow.  However, it's best to stay out of the water in the summer, due to stinging jellyfish that may be present.

In 2024, a survey by British and German firms ranked Cable Beach the #1 sexiest beach in the world, based on things like seclusion, sunset, popularity with couples, and friendliness toward LGBTQ travelers.