spent many years working/living in shacks at the Abrolhos and down the coast south of Dongara

Will give you a ring over the next few days for a chat!

 I have no idea  about shack settlements. So interested to see some input from members on topic.

Get in touch with these guys  wedgewa.com.au . Also ask the to put you in touch with the Grey settlement community,

Lots of history there.

All along the coast from Denmark through to the Donnelly river there are groups of shacks that have been there for over 60 years that I know of. My fathers family had one in Windy Harbour some seventy years ago, don't know what happened to that.
Father and Uncle George pulled down an old mill house in Pemberton and carted it the 11 mile down the Donnelly and erected it, was either the 2nd or 3rd one there, passed on to cousin Michael and don't know who has possession of it now that he has died.

Here in Carnarvon, we, Carnarvon Sea Rescue, were bequeathed one of the shacks up at the Blowholes settlement for use as a sub base in the event of a major rescue operation in the area if needed. With new regulations trying to be enacted involving shifting the shacks back further away from the beach to above the supposed new high water mark????? and then being exposed to the strong winds instead of sheltered like they are now. We have been guaranteed a block when this is finalised and proposed to erect a building that will contain a jet ski for rapid response for someone getting washed off the rocks along the Quobba coast and a trailer set up for fire fighting.

https://www.nationaltrust.org.au/Assets/9564/1/WedgeandGrey-CulturalHeritageAssessment-Jan2013.pdf

I take it you have read this report on the heritage value of grey and wedge done in 2013, makes some good points , probally lost on pollys though,

It doesnt mention votes anywhere!

 Beach shacks were, when you think about the first things erected by white man many moons ago, e.g putting up a shelter when you  dont own the land.

This on the first landing at Albany----

Arriving at King George's Sound on 25 December 1826, Lockyer landed ashore early the next day and commenced a survey of the area. On 30 December the troops and prisoners were disembarked, setting up camp and landing stores.  A camp aye? , a xmas camp , now thats bloody stralian right there! wonder if old locky had a brew around the campfire, gazed over the ocean , and though , mm wonder if its a bit early for salmon? haha.

 Beach shacks have probally stretched from  Isralite bay to the ord at some time or another , and are a huge mainly forgotten piece of our history.

Back in the early eightys when I was younger and maybe more of a romantic , I dreamed of travelling , photographing and writing the history of these shacks, before

they dissappeared, but it was not to be, mores the pity.

good luck mate.

A mates dad in school had a shack in greenhead and we used go up there a bit for surfing and fishing. Havent been there since tho. Definetly a community vibe with a big fire on the beach and all the kids having fun.

 We had access to a shack on Garden Island I was a kid, we spent quite a bit of time over there before the navy kicked everyone off.

 We've got a shack up at grey our family has owned it for over 20 years the shack were in now and a couple of uncles had a shack  for a further 10 years or more just down the track from our current one now that one was washed away In a storm    Hence y the family bought the one we are in now we regualkty go up there for weekends away from. The big smoke  and is good I get away for a few days it's just a shame they want to bulldoze it so they can open the area for everyone to enjoy.  There are some shack that date back to the early 50s   And are still in good nick the community along with wedge are trying to get it into world heritage  status  of u want to know more pm me I'll try my best to help out 

thanks chris 

 Helped a mate build one up at Leeman 25 years ago, just past Gumtree bay. Some of the best days of my younger life up there. There was probably only 5 or 6 shacks where we were, Beagle is was just to the SW of us. The fishing and diving was insane and some weekends all the people from the shacks along there would get together for drinks etc. It all ended when CALM ordered them taken down, the shire didn't have a problem and my mate was paying $500 a year in fees to them from memory. I'll never forget those times, just good clean honest fun.