I've been offered a new job as the "Senior Teacher Secondary and Outstations" at a remote aboriginal community called Gunbalanya, 300km east of Darwin, just past the East Alligator River and Kakadu National Park.




The road out is bitumen as far as Cahills Crossing on the East Alligator River, but dirt from there. You can drive to Gunbalanya in the dry season, although you may have to wait for low tide to cross the river, but during the wet the river swells and floods the plain, making it impassible.


There are approximately 880 people in Gunbalanya, 800 of them Aboriginal and 80 Balandas. The language spoken is Kunwinjku.