off grid community living on the sand dunes ! Stockton beach tin city
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ส.ค. 2024
- Today i search for the off grid community that lives in the sand dunes!
After a 20 minute drive along beautiful Stockton Beach in my mates 80s series land cruiser we find the hidden village of “Tin City” emerging out of the sand dunes like a mirage!!
Tin City began in the early 1900’s when 2 tin shacks were built for shipwreck survivors. During the great depression of the 1930’s, Tin City grew to over 36 huts. 11 of these huts still stand today!
Off Grid George - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
I had a shack that belonged to an old digger who live here since WW2 and who's original hut was washed away in the Signa storm
The shack that i had before it was destroyed by a storm and berried by sand was 3 mtrs square and built for him by the locals so he had some were to live He used to be a beach watcher in the war and the airforce use to drop him in supplies
When i obtained it after he past away it was completely berried and it took me 3 days to dig it out
I have been to the sand dunes but I would have never guessed that a small community lived there, thanks for sharing
Gorgeous, your camera equipment is impressive!
Love the drone footage , amazing !
George Horder
Thanks
Nice vid bro 👍 I’ve been to Stockton before I had no idea about this place though
Nice work! Very impressed
Blake Nancarrow
Cheers bro !
Need to take the bikes to Stockton again 👊 great vid
dirt biking bros dubbo
Fo sure 🛵
I was going to buy at Stockton Beach...but not in Tin City!!! LOL
Cool vid
Thanks 😊
This was the most complicated way to find tin city 😂 all you had to do was just drive along the beach and you’ll see signage and even the shacks themselves - it’s not that hidden.
Kate O exactly
Awsome vid, great editing. What's the name of the song at 2:00 ?
Interesting
Mail Ismaree
Thanks 😊
A number of shacks located in this area. I stayed in this one back in 1997 on the Easter week end then had a really interesting trip back home but that's another story altogether.
www.google.com.au/maps/place/Leeman+WA+6514/@-29.8601486,114.9789423,97m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x2bd1aee1ee646d35:0x400f6382479e4a0!8m2!3d-29.95!4d114.98
Amazing footage.
Do you need a permission from the National Park to fly the drone at Stockton Beach?
Its miltary airspace so completely illegal.
👍👊👍
GEORGE HORDER
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Are you allowed to drive on the bit at 1:53 onwards? Want to head there this weekend but heard you can only drive on the beach front :( Are the strict about it?
BMC
Most of the places you can't drive are fenced off .
A lot of it is beach front only But there is still a large section of dunes you can drive. Well I think haha , it's sorta hard to understand where you can and can't go it's recently been changed.
When you get your beach permit ( only $10 ) it comes with a map and sorta outlines where you can and cant go .
Hope that helps mate 👍
Let me know how you go
You’re not allowed to drive on any vegetation/grass.
Hi George,
Just a note-
Might want to download the app ”Can I Fly There?” by CASA.
For the sake of the drone community you need to use it. Due to the proximity to w
Williamtown RAAF base in almost certain you are not able to fly drones at that end of the beach. I may be wrong but checking the App yesterday as I was planning to fly there today there is only one small section where you can and the Lands Council have, apparently a ’No Fly’ rule on the back of the permits.
Anyway, thought I should mention it as the fines are steep.
Otherwise- great commentary and keen to watch your other videos. I have subed.
PS- I've stayed there many times both with 4WD’s and Beach Buggies. Some shacks can be rented out at about $20pp per night to club members only, or used to be. Haven't heard of it for a while now. You need to know someone who lives there and they need to be with you.
Great little community.
Aw well, his not flying it near the base who cares ahaha
shark nursery next door at birubi
Gunner Steibeck get you facts right you are talking a load of crap.
Come and talk to the locals and get the facts. And by the way nobody lives here permanent.
And the oldest shack was here in the early 1940's. The sand plow vehicle could not be used because
it was not registered, it was not a dozer.
4:45 ha pumps made of kegs
"Let me tell you a little about Tin City" ... it is a myth created by the residents who were looking at being kicked off the beach when the National Park was being proposed.
It did not exist, on paper, until the residents started making up the story that it was "depression town."
There is no written record of the shacks prior to the National Park being proposed.
The only history that can be found is that provided by the residents and even they cannot provide any reference other than the oldest shack was built in the late 1960's early 1970's but nobody has any photos.
I remember going out there from about the age of 5 (1971) and there were no shacks there. My dad and his mother do not remember any shacks.
I have a 1942 map of area and there are no shacks. I have found a 1966 aerial photo of the site and there are no shacks. There were depression settlements at both ends of the beach at Stockton, near the Stockton bridge, and at Fingal Bay to the north.
These settlements were near clean water sources, shops, transport, building materials and had soil for growing food and the chance of employment to get money to leave the shacks.
Funny enough Nelson Bay road did not even go past the area in the 1930's as the "main road" went through Bobs Farm from Salt Ash to the Nelson Bay and not over the sand dunes ("hills") as it does today.
Apparently nobody seems to consider the logistics when believing the Tin City myth.
How do you get fresh water from the ground if you are living in a bowl in the dunes that would direct any sewage, from the residents, back into you water supply?
How do you get food when the nearest shop is nowhere to be seen? How do you grow food on sand that has no soil content?
How do you get fuel for fires (when you have to walk 500 metres up a large sand dune to the bush) and how did they get materials for building the shacks when the nearest road is 1km away?
The current residents panicked when they were told that they could not use their homemade bulldozer to keep the sand from crushing their shacks when the wind blows the sand. The residents openly state that they could not live there without the aid of mechanised earthmoving equipment. When it rains heavily the whole place is flooded.
They might be off the grid but they are off the planet when it comes to the truth.
The two original shacks, for shipwrecked sailors, are mentioned in the old newspaper reports but I believe they were not built and that the shacks referred to were for rescue equipment situated at Stockton. these shacks apparently did not last all that long as vandalism has been around for a long time.
youve done your research - I'm curious hoe it started and how they are allowed to still live there. Is it just random hippies rocking up with some planks of wood and some galvanised iron sheets?
It must be constant work moving sand . . . and then getting flooded when it rains. Would be cool for a weekend or a week, but full time . . . . Has anyone actually talked to people who live there?
You are so wrong. Nothing you said is true.
love how you go park in someones front yard and go gawking around their place. maybe just stay in the car park if you dont know anyone who lives there and give people their privacy.
not real smart putting a video on youtube of you driving through sacred land also
@@snapcragglepop i don’t need you speaking for me i live here and i’m fine with it. i’ve been here for 6 years now, so i definitely can say this.
@@mithrosis 😆 Righto mate
This is namibia ?
Or australia ?
that place is very vacant , i want to live there ,bring my alien companions & make an underground city .
Gunner Steinbeck
Get you facts right
Come and talk to a local and you will hear the true facts
The shack always have been and always will be fishing shacks
Every thing you have said about the shacks and the locals being worried is BS as they are under local heritage
And have been for many many years
The story you told we think was started by tourist operators etc
Come and talk to us The water is taken by pump through a spearpoint 4-5 mtrs down in the sand the same water the waterboard uses for Nelson Bay and Newcastle
You have NO idea what your talking about. Your also flying in military airspace which is totally illegal.
Hey George, if you liked my comments then when can I expect you to change your information rather than continue promoting the myth?