Exploring Sydney's Abandoned Cliff-side Huts
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- In the middle of Sydney Harbour, in a tiny windswept cove in Middle Harbour, unknown to the residents around sit seven ramshackle huts built during the period 1923 to 1963.
Most of the huts at Craters Cove are built mostly from stone and sit precariously perched like a row of detached terraces on the steep, rocky cliffs of Dobroyd Head, the clifftop rocks serving as rustic stone floors. The remaining (wooden) huts are scattered around the clearing that adjoins the cove.
The huts were built at different times. The first lot were built by fishermen in the 1920s who used them for short stayovers while fishing at Craters Cove. In the 1930s they were thought to be permently occupied due to the hardships of the Great Depression. At Crater Cove it was possible escape the harsh economic times by building makeshift dwellings, fishing and growing your own food in carved out vegetable gardens.
Others seeking solitude came to Crater Cove in the 1960s and other huts were built.In the 1970s and 1980s people permanently lived in the huts enjoying what some would describe as an idyllic lifestyle in a setting that boasted million-dollar views - much to the disgust of the many landowners outside the national park who had paid millions of dollars for their harbour view properties.
This situation occurred until 1984, when occupants were forced out by the National Parks & Wildlife Services (NPWS). The evictions followed the NSW Government's declaration of the new Sydney Harbour National Park, which incorporated Dobyoyd Head and Craters Cove. Some of those evicted took their case to the High Court of Australia, claiming there had been permanent occupation of the huts since the 1970s and recreational use since the 1930s. They further backed their claims in arguing that, by living there, they were acting as custodians and carers for the huts and the cove. The High Court decided in favour of the government and the evictions upheld.
The huts have been boarded up since the '80s and a team of volunteer "guardians" now work with the NPWS to watch over the huts and maintain the surrounding area. The huts remain a "secret" of Sydney's history and relatively few Sydneysiders have visited or seen the huts. Many do not even know of their existence. Occasionaly, articles appear in newspaper articles with pictures of the huts.
The lack of awareness of the huts' existence is not so much because they are situated in a remote location within a national park, but rather because they are neither promoted nor publicised by the NPWS. The path leading to the huts, Crater Cove Walking Track, is deliberately not signposted. People, generally, are not encouraged to go there.
Sorry bout the re upload. 4k wasnt working and i wanted all of you to experience all of those extra pixels i paid for!
we had to look at this gorgeous video in all it glory
Awesome; those are definitely one of those things that most people wouldn't even know are there. Thanks for sharing. :)
One of my favourite stop-offs on the Spit->Manly walk! I didn't realise you were a sydneysider.
My laptop can't handle 4k! :(
Hi any chance you have the exact location because i want to take my family for a day out ,thanks heaps .
Now that was some great videography, more sombre and dynamic than i've seen in lots of movies.
You used butter for those shots, didn't you?
soooo much. i feel bad for the next bush walkers
timestamp?
@@icetrucker6127 ha good luck getting a response a year late
@@misledcone5067 ik :(
@@icetrucker6127 sorry to hear that man
WHY ARE ALL MY FAVORITE RUclipsRS IN AUSTRALIA??!?!?!?
We are all related
Because their accent is genius.
I'm so glad I live in Australia
@@kaisersaltyvonsaltenburg3298 fuckin oath
Bet the other one is friendly jordes or minmaxfoe
Those are some great shots! Absolutely class
Thanks :)
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You're my favorite up and coming youtube channel!
it is our luck that i also enjoy urban exploration kind of stuff too :D hehe. really interesting history too, thank you for the writeup. it makes me sad to think about people getting evicted from homes they built with their bare hands that werent in anyones damn way.
People were pissed of they had million dollar views
i read that part too. i disagree with the courts decision. and i'll repeat, that the situation makes me sad for the reason i stated.
What about the thousands of aboriginals that were evicted from there a couple of hundred years ago, and anywhere else the government wanted....?
They werent evicted, 50% along the coast died out within 2 years from Smallpox. And no it wasn’t done on purpose. The British came at a time during the age of engligtenment and seeked to befriend them. Not that the historical revisionism would have any Baizou useful idiots believe as such with their lack of education or brainwashed guilt complex.
@@sirsillybilly ah yes lobbing insults while attempting to appear credible. Sounding very revisionist to me, anything to deflect responsibility for your savage ancestors.
Imagine getting kicked out of this beautiful spot because a polly said so..............cutting.
bwuh rare video
Yep
Absolutely correct
Yeah lol
agreed
yup
you gotta do more exploration vids like this. I bet Australia has hidden gems all over
Love this type of urban exploring.
yeh such a beautiful place
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Wow, an emotionally moving video of people going into abandoned areas instead of playing a stupid game of hide and seek while talking about how they would be in so much trouble "if they got caught" for thirty minutes straight with no educational value.
dont forget going into a .. lets say forest knowing that people kill themselves there .. lets call it a "suicidal forest" kay ? and imagine this is in japan ... all hyopthetical .. now lets take a youtuber .. lets call him .. Laul Pogan .. now imagine this dude goes into this forest with the knowledge that they will find dead people there .... and they find a dead human .. "oh what a surprise" ..now imagine this guy .. laul pogan uploads this to youtube .. and youtube does nothing ...
I’m just all about those crossbedded, fluvial, cliff-forming sandstones. Such beauties.
I’m incredibly late to this, but just wanted to say that this video (although mighty different from your other stuff) is absolutely great :)
Thanks mate. This is before the channel kicked off and was just trying a bunch of stuff
@@Ididathing Wish my trying stuff out ended up looking like this hahaha, binged watched the whole channel over the last 3 days, thanks for keeping us entertained and keep killing it!
@@Ididathing was this unlisted for a while man?
@@billybull7419 yup
I’m so fed up with “governments” ruining people’s lives.
They were squatting on what was probably Crown Land in the modern era.... This is now a National Park...After WW2 the people living there under harsh circumstances should have been accommodated...
It’s terrible what governments do to people, we should’nt have them, then we could do what we like!
@@jimcrawford5039 right. Your comment is the stupidest thing I've seen all month.
@@jimcrawford5039 if we didn't have em we'd probably be dead by now
@@jimcrawford5039 I agree. But there still needs to be some kind of order. That being said, the power governments have nowadays is fucking ridiculous.
Rotten Tomatoes 98%
This is a beautifully made video. Thank you for sharing! Kinda glad the area isn't touched by visitors.
Wow this channel really does have everything. Great video!
thanks mate. such a beautiful place
I used to live here as a kid. It was scary at night walking along the path from hut to hut. The toilet used to be a big hole through the sandstone ledge over hanging the ocean...used to shit myself going to the toilet haha... Wow. Thanks for the memories.
Pretty cool childhood
oh cut the bullshit
Where do you live now?
Kit Kat lying ville population him
Goafreak lekin tumharra nam goa freak hai....tum India sai ho stop lying
You’re unironically a pretty good cinematographer.
That is just insane!!!
This is a location I am going to add to my secret tour list.
did you put this back up after the yard episode? if so thats dope and this vid is beautiful
Wow 😮 I’m a Sydney boy and never knew they existed what a beautiful place to escape to,,,
Thanks for sharing 👍👍👍
Most people in Sydney never get out and see Sydney. That bay is fantastic for squid.
@@jatberoz5972 your so right brother. Im heading down to the houses with my girlfriend and a Bong.
@@slavdefendov1499 seems like a good place to take some acid, ill be visiting with my missus this weekend ;)
This video was beautiful!
2:40 "People were treated like trash by the government in the 80s and now their things are taken care of..."
They look so cozy!
I went for a bush run about 5 years back and found these huts. I didn't have a good look around as I thought people occupied the area and didn't want to intrude. Think I'll need to revisit. There are also old abandoned military installations dotting the harbour cliff tops from WWII.
Beautiful to see it untouched
I used to look at those huts each week day in the early 2000's totally unaware that no one lived in them. I always thought that it would be an amazing place to live but terrible access
very lovely. those two seaward men in the background must have some real yarns to spin
I love these kinds of places, it's great to just chill out inside and watch it deteriorate for a hundred years or so before returning to the mundane life of a human taxidermist.
that part with the background/memory talk about the hydrangeas was really good lads :))
Cinematic masterpiece.
Relaxing !
Whats wrong with letting people live in them as long as they maintain them correctly according to the surrounding area?
Straya !
Adam Dot "illegal"
Was taken over by the national parks.
@MARCUSAURELIUS If you're a pensioner or under the age of 16,you don't need a fishing licence.
@@1953beetle Under 18's actually, pensioners and aboriginal or torres strait islanders.
Now I can’t help but to read all of these comments with an Australian accent
I love how the town was so proud of evicting a bunch of homeless fishermen.. they kept their huts as memorial
I love little holes like this, good filming.
This makes me feel like I’m back in Australia
me too
@@Ididathing same
You're very talented bro keep it up.
They were originally holiday retreats and also artists lived there
POV: You’re here from the yard and realize that he thought this doesn’t exist
We need more of this Alex! Or just do whatever you want we’ll watch either way. And tell Aleska to make some more shit too
Nice video! Thanks for sharing. We enjoyed.
2:30 Even the flowers in Australia are spiders
Cool, il move in tomorrow !
Thanks for a great video , love the history , I'm surprised a government official has not moved in .
That story is genuinely really messed up and sad. Those people shouldn’t have been evicted from their homes. :(
wow that was really cool!
I remember when the people in the huts under Dobroyd point where kicked out and thought that the government were bloody miserable.
That is so cool
Before reading the information I was thinking to myself about how I have never heard of this gem and that it was so well kept I thought it had to be on a private residence!
I’m both happy and sad you’ve uploaded this video because now I have a new adventure to go on this weekend and not so happy because now a lot more people know , I just hope everyone can remain respectful and not trash the place.
You're way too talented for youtube. Move to LA and film movies.
yes sir
Don't do it L.A is a hole you will end up on meth with fake white teeth
he has a soul... why would he want to do that?
LA is a fucking hole fucking every bogan shithole Aussie town is better then LA
Start your own movie town Crabstick Wood this is a great idea because mmmmm Crabstick
These sort of shacks were really common early last century and there are still some hold outs at places like Boat Harbour and Era Beach. But whether they are at Dobroyd Head, Jerusalem Bay, Kurnell, Bundeena, or wherever, the NPWS is really active at knocking them down at every opportunity. It's a crying shame because many of these communities have real charm, make little or even positive influence on the ground, and represent a can do attitude by battlers. In all cases (except Boat Harbour) they can only be reached on foot. On the other hand, it's not hard to imagine shanty towns developing along every stretch of coastline, gully, and places with scenic views if left unchecked. Just as a sidenote, one of the earliest issues of Australian Geographic (I think around 1980) featured a vibrant hippie community occupying the shacks at Dobroyd Head.
The only huts NPWS knocks down at Era now are the ones their owners allow to become dilapidated.
Oi great place to grow weed
probably why it was closed down
Nah, looks sandy and shit also too close to Syd, bush weed requires a fair bit of tending and a wet location so you would need access to the site and bushwhackers would follow. Plenty of other National park tho.
Reminds me of a completely abandoned wilderness lodge right at the tip of cape York when I went there about 30 yrs ago ,, it once was a beautiful place but completely neglected and abandoned ; be interested if anyone has anymore info on the place
Seen that also at the cape . Its got a weird feeling to it a .
Is there a 10 hour slowTV version of this same video i can sleep to please mate?
This like some hidden video lol
Great video man!!
Thanks gus
dude. do more of these u have to
They are kicked out There is a whole bunch of houses little shacks like that in our national forest places like that along our coast that have been taken back by the government and they didn’t get paid anything they just got told to leave
Was there a book written about these huts?Thanks in advance.
Was there a book published on the history of these huts?If so,whete can i (and possibly others) obtain them?Thanks heaps in advance.😊
Binge watching your channel for the 4th time and it's the first time I stumbled across this, really moving without much words
More or less the same deal with the huts at Inskip Point (near Gympie).
Why did you publicise this? They will be destroyed within 2 years now - fools!!
Run buy National Sparks and Wildfires and it burns, never saw that coming.
Nice spot, beautiful views
How didnt I see this before
im halfway through the video and nothing crazy happened, im scared
Here from the yard podcast
If they're abandoned why are they all locked with brand-new padlocks
Forcibly abandoned
Thank you for this… I felt like I was visited by passed away loved ones..
How is that not vandalised? Good work public of Sydney!
yeh it is confusing. the bunkers up the road are vandalized and full of nangs.
@@Jon_B999 Or perhaps because there's a community taking care of it? There's tons of abandoned places that are in great condition even though they're well-known.
Why are you calling him a narcissistic moron? How did you come to such conclusion? He's found a cool place and wanted to share it, and I appreciate him for that.
@@Jon_B999 What a wanker you are. I bet you're fun at parties being the clown
Jon Bell do you really think people are going to watch this video and think "man would I love to tear this place apart"? You penis head
I think the location. It's a mission out there
It feels kinda empty without the humor that's in like 90% of his videos. They're gorgeous shots though. The buildings look both spooky, and beautiful.
AUSSIES NEED TO MOVE POLITITIANS ON
ONTO THE GALLOWS
WEV E GOT PLENTY OF ROPE
Epic
Nice huts. Bet they’re worth a few quid today. The most beautiful harbour in the world.
That's unreal I'd love to caretake this place . beautiful bay
yeh it is insanely beautiful
I like contrast. Keeps you on your toes.
i'd like to hang with the ole blokes that lived there skulling a few beers talkin about fish and all that
I came across this channel like 2 weeks ago and I can't stop watching
The huts are not ‘abandoned’ by a long shot. They are maintained by caretakers, mostly relatives of the original dwellers who were recreational fisher folks. During the depression some moved in on a semi-permanent basis. National Parks regularly have staff on duties there and about and keep track of the comings and goings. The huts, which have a heritage status now, were built in the first iteration from materials at hand, flotsam, local sandstone etc. There has been plenty of continuity from the original families to this day.
Was this an unlisted video? I haven't seen this video in the long time I've followed this channel
Ya I've never seen it in my string of binge watching
At least the people on the private land in Kurnell are still living free
That guy looked str8 out of dead island Xbox 360 game deadset
The hut*
Beautiful northern beaches Sydney❤️ they also killed and moved on a lot of the aboriginal tribes that lived in freshwater/manly it's a shame what the government has done!
well made and would have taken a lot of work especially humping all those bags of cement needed ,had heard about these and other harbour fishing huts since was a kid but never seen them .. thanks
damn, more videos like this
Actual beautiful video
Petition to give these people their land back
cool stuff man
Nice vid mate, I'd forgotten about that place. Cheers
THIS MAN HAS OBVIOUSLY PLAYED MIST BEFORE....great cinematography
Super stoned just got my first jar of medicinal "plant medicine" never been this high and this is the first thing i sussed. Dope vid dope times
And there are many more like this right up and down the coast line of southern NSW. They have all been taken by the nationsl parks.
Nothing ever abandoned. just slightly not occupied
Dudes went full minecraft.
This video may not be one of your excellent comic sketches, I think you did some choice work with the nature focus. 10/10
Feels bad the government kicked everyone out in the 1980s. Hoping it was in effort to preserve the fisher men's cliff side huts and not just because gov't hates tax dodging hippies
...The thing is that they're NOT abandoned, while people live in them and around the immediate area (subsequent free standing shacks that were built afterwards). Good luck with trying to check the huts out up close; you'll be very impolitely told to piss off!
Was this private at some point? Haven’t seen this video once on the channel until now?