Djarindjin is mainly home to an Aboriginal community that wanted its own space outside the confines of Catholic Lombadina, which has Europeanised as much as a remote Kimberley settlement is likely to. Formerly a mission settlement, it is essentially two villages in one. Nearby is the Lombadina, where the ghosts of the past echo through the layout of the town.
#The postie email Patch
The police have quite a substantial patch here as the "police station – 103km" sign on the way up illustrates. Kooljaman is third on the list, before the "cop shop" – a corrugated shack with the Australian and Aboriginal flags flying proudly outside. Then the bus continues round to the indigenous community at One Arm Point. First up, it's the Cygnet Bay Pearl Farm. But the outback intensity of the scene through the windscreen is A-star.Īfter what seems to be an eternity of groggily waking up, the deliveries start. The pleasantness of the drive depends almost entirely on when the grader last went up. In the dry, it can be massively corrugated and potholed. In the wet season, it can be under water. It's not long before the bitumen disappears, replaced by a furiously red dirt track. It kicks off in Broome at 5am, then ploughs 220 kilometres up the Cape Leveque Road. It's not exactly a tour – more a case of tagging along in a 16-seater, four-wheel-drive bus while the boys do their rounds.īy submitting your email you are agreeing to Fairfax Media's The result is a rather weird and tiring day out. Ahoy Buccaneers took this one step further by letting tourists pay to come along for the ride. The previous contractor had done a bit of dovetailing too, acting as an unofficial transport service for people from the remote communities on the Cape. Kooljaman Resort and lighthouse at Cape Leveque In 2014, Ahoy Buccaneers – which launches its Kimberley cruises from Cape Leveque anyway – thought the run dovetailed with its operations and won the tender. Therefore, the mail run is contracted out to whoever can do it reliably on the relative cheap. There's an awful lot of driving and not much mail delivering. It'd be entirely uneconomical to cover within normal operations. Cape Leveque is one of those places that's a bit of a nuisance for Australia Post.
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