Leeman

Leeman
Located 88 km south of Dongara and 295 km north of Perth, Leeman is a typical sleepy little fishing villages which, with the inevitability of all charming and unspoilt places, is in the process of changing into a tourist destination and a commuting zone for miners working for Western Titanium near Eneabba which is only 40 km to the east. The townships of Leeman and Greenhead are a comfortable three hours drive north of Perth via the Brand Highway. They experience some of the strongest summer winds that windsurfers will encounter in Western Australia, and as a result are great sailing sites.
Leeman is named after the intrepid Dutch upper steersman and navigator Abraham Leeman van Santwits who, in 1658, was shipwrecked on the Fishermen Islands to the southwest of the tiny settlement.
Leeman was a member of the crew of the Waeckende Boey (it means the Watch Buoy) which was searching the Western Australian coast looking for survivors of the Vergulde Draeck which had disappeared two years earlier.