"Love it". That was my wife and I in Esperance WA on our honeymoon, 1983.
Brings back some lovely memories.
Absolutely brilliant.
Spent many years working in Karratha. Is that the "Burrup"?
Regards.
Hetho
Thanks Hetho, we married a year earlier, but didnt have anywhere near such an exotic honeymoon - we were poorly paid nurses in the UK - one night in a hotel was the best we could manage!
I suspect you are confusing Dampier, the town on the Burrup Peninsula near Karratha with the Dampier Peninsula north of Broome. You would be far from the first to do so! :). We are just under 200kms north of Broome, & about 25kms north of Beagle Bay where we are voluntary caretakers at a tiny coastal eco retreat/campground whilst it is closed for the Wet season. Spending a wet season (our first) in remote Kimberley wilderness was a bucket list thing. Have been on the Peninsula since early September. So far so good. :)
If you are caretaking near Beagle Bay you are near the Sacred Heart Church. My Paternal Grandmother was at the mission there and worked on the pearling luggers, as a girl cook, in the 1800's.
I have not been back there since they rebuilt the Steeple, but prior to it's collapse it was unbelievably magnificent, and I believe the restoration was very well done.
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