Australia's most epic postie (mail) route: The Broome to Cape Leveque Mail Run

By David Whitley
May 7 2016 - 12:15am
Kooljaman Resort and lighthouse at Cape Leveque	
 Photo: Tourism WA
Kooljaman Resort and lighthouse at Cape Leveque Photo: Tourism WA
Ahoy Buccaneers' and the mail bus at Djarindjin
 Photo: David Whitley
Ahoy Buccaneers' and the mail bus at Djarindjin Photo: David Whitley
Lombadina Church. Photo: David Whitley
Lombadina Church. Photo: David Whitley
Cape Leveque. Photo: Jewels Lynch/Tourism WA
Cape Leveque. Photo: Jewels Lynch/Tourism WA

The white sand beach glimmers in the distance, a tantalising prize for whoever is prepared to walk there in the ferocious heat with no cover. On the way, there are the Kimberley's prodigious ten-metre tides, and possibly a croc or two to battle. And the landscape is an ankle-breaking minefield of knobbly red-rock cliffs.