Back to the present for a little bit, last week we spent a week staying in Pallinup, right above the Beaufort Inlet in a small fishing shack looking over the ocean. An amazing place, water from rain tanks, no electricity, etc. Apparently they have been a some what controversial Australian tradition for decades, but a lovely tradition too, primitive little makeshift tin shacks on the edge of the ocean, holiday homes that are generally shared among family and friends.
Most local councils are trying to get rid of them now, banning any building of new ones, limiting the amount of construction that can be done on existing ones, and trying to tear a lot of the existing ones down. This one is on a fishing lease, the smaller of two, the other one is use by more active commercial fishers both on the ocean and the inlet which is separated off from the ocean by a sandbar. There used to be a third shack but last year the inlet broke through the sandbar and washed away some of the cliff edge, including the third shack.
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