Aboriginal communities

Hi all,
sorry for the lateness of this blog...its a delayed one from whilst i was on rural prac. I was in Port Hedland which has quite a large indigenous population. Near to town and on the outskirts are numerous aboriginal communities. I was lucky enough to visit one, which i thought was definately one of my highlights there. It was about 2 hours outside Port Hedland, in the bush. Now a lot of these communities have major issues with drugs, alcohol and domestic violence, however this particular one was supposed to be a 'dry' community. Still when i turned up there I would still have to say I was in a little bit of shock. The community was very small with run down houses with smashed windows, wrecked cars everywhere and no one to be seen. It looked like a deserted ghost town. There was a small nursing post along with a few portable classrooms as a school and a small shack as the local shop and that was it. The physiotherapist and myself treated people as outpatients in the small nursing post which was definately different from the usual location of treatment. It was amazing to see how small the community was and the limited resources available. I'm glad i got to witness this whilst on my prac because a lot of the residents living here were often patients on the ward in the local hospital where i was based, and it definately helped me with discharge planning by knowing what they patients were returning to and what resources were available to them. Anyone else had any similar experiences?