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Knobby Head - Crown Land and Squatters Shacks
By: Catherine Date: August 15, 2012, 10:54 pm
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Crown Land and Squatters Shacks
The whole coastline of Australia is crown land and over the
decades people have used it to build shacks and this was true
for professional Crayfisherman during the Crayfishing season….
My grandparents and uncle were such people and eventually, I’m
writing a book about how we spent part of the year living on the
beach. This was my inspiration to travel the coastline and see
what remains of shacks now. There is a push to rid the coastline
of squatters and Wedge Island (not really an island, but a
place) is one of the last bastions of people and their holiday
shacks.
These shacks are absolutely fantastic spots for kids…omg, I
cannot tell you how great my childhood was visiting the shacks.
They were once occupied for 6 months of the year… then as they
fished out the rock lobsters, the fishing seasons were
shortened. But during the 70s, 80s and 90s each Crayfisherman
became multimillionaires… Lobster is big money globally…There
are more multimillionaires congregated at Geraldton than any
other place on the earth.. Geraldton is about 5.3 hrs drive
north of Perth.
This is the most beautiful shot I took on my journey.. Artistic
value-wise of course and now I share it with some of the world…
It will go in my book….
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This is sadly Sean Coffey looking for his son but in the
distance is a shack too close to the water I feel and is a tad
dangerous imo. This is nothing like the shacks that belonged to
my family whose concern was more like the Hilton of Knobby Head…
Note the shack way in the distance.
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The shack in the distance is this one I snagged from the net and
I didn‘t take this picture. Next Saturday, I might walk closer
to it and take my own shots.
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Re: Crown Land and Squatters Shacks
By: Catherine Date: August 16, 2012, 7:07 am
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HTML http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/wa/14570943/great-white-spotted-off-jurien-bay/
Great white spotted off Jurien Bay
A 5-6m (20 feet give or take) white shark has been reported in
waters north of Jurien Bay this morning.
The shark was spotted off the main anchorage at Green Head about
11.30am.
An unconfirmed sighting of a 5m white shark was also reported
off the coast of Perth about 11.30am today.
The shark was reportedly spotted between the Swanbourne rifle
range and channel markers.
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The road up the coast is beautiful... Indian Ocean Hway...
There are 3 highways going up there now... Brand Hway, and the
oldest Highway... The Great Northern Highway. Speed limit is
110 kilometres
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From the Knobby Head cliff, the location once where our shacks
and caravans stood... the public toilet is on the right. I was
too scared to go in, incase it looked like a nightmare.
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A shack that might be worthwhile restoring.
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Re: Crown Land and Squatters Shacks
By: Catherine Date: August 16, 2012, 7:39 am
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This is quite a nice site carrying images of seals, emus and
some green parrots.... You find these birds on Rottnest island
as well...
HTML http://www.grey.asn.au/topics/grey-news/
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Re: Crown Land and Squatters Shacks
By: Catherine Date: August 16, 2012, 6:43 pm
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This was the layout of the camp, minus the generator and horse
stable and correl because I don't know where that was but I have
a picture of it with granddad and one of his horses... near the
workshop somewhere...
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this is the only known picture of my grandmother in front of the
mainshack in front of the highest point of the cliff which is
due south... this is a 1970s picture but no one knows what
year...
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and this was in the 1990s when basically the place was pulled
apart and someone else has taken hold of the squat...
everything is nearly gone ...
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the spot in 2012 and no evidence there was ever anyone there
other than my old pictures ...
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Re: Knobby Head - Crown Land and Squatters Shacks
By: Catherine Date: August 17, 2012, 11:50 pm
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In 1978 my uncle had a mishap with a cargo ship and the
crayboat, Edward Joseph was sunk… later came another new
crayboat they named "Beagles" after some islands close by.
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Gjertrude Bakke
HTML http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=163654
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