Beagle Bay

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7/5/10 We drove a hell of a long way to look at a church at beagle bay. If you ask me it wasn't that great but Nan wants me to wright a more detailed entry on it.

 

Beagle Bay is famous for Sacred Heart Church which was built during the First World War. Beagle Bay was developed in the area where the Nyul Nyul people lived. It became the site of a mission for the Aboriginal people dating back to 1890. Beagle Bay is an area of many springs, so there was an abundance of water.

 

Work began on the church in 1915 during a time when the German Pallottine priests and brothers were confined to Beagle Bay Mission due to war-time restrictions on their movements. Every brick in the church (except for the repairs on the bell tower that fell down in 2001) was hand made with mud. They didn't have any cement or any way of bringing things from Broome except by boat so they made the church out of what they had, they collected shells from the beach and crushed them to mack lime then wet it till they had a past that they used as cement and for decoration they used mother of pearl and other shells from the beach. So now if you google image Sacred heart beagle bay you'll find some really pretty pictures of the church.