Beagle Bay is the gateway to communities further north such as Djarindjin, Lombadina, Bobieding and Ardyaloon.

In 1884, the first priest arrived to serve the Catholics in the Kimberley, and to try to convert the Aboriginal people.

In 1895, the Trappist monks of Sept-Fons in France extended their missionary work from Beagle Bay to Broome.

In 1901, Pallottine fathers from Germany took over the Beagle Bay Mission with two priests and four brothers.

In 1907, the St John of God Sisters began to run a mission school at Beagle Bay and in 1918 the famous church was opened.

The Beagle Bay Mission subsequently became home to Indigenous people from across the Kimberley and further afield.

There was no such thing as idle hands.Author and ethnographer Daisy Bates began her life's work at Beagle Bay Mission in the early 1900s.

Electricity is generated and supplied locally by Horizon Power and comprises the Australian standard three phase 415/240 volts system 24 hours a day.