Seven Seven South West

Shack number Seven at Tin City sits on the south-west edge of the settlement, viewed here from the dune ridge above. The shack's flat roof line and corrugated walls drop away to the sand below, with the rest of the settlement behind to the north and the dune field stretching out to the south-west. The painted numeral 7 is large on the front wall in white against weathered metal. A small lean-to has been added to one side. Sand drifts up against the south-west wall in a long shallow wedge. The view from the ridge takes in the shack, a section of dune, and a strip of the Pacific.

Tin City's surviving shacks sit along a low ridge of the Stockton Bight dunes, looking out over the dune field to the west and the ocean to the east. Each shack catches the wind differently depending on its orientation; the south-west exposure is the most exposed to the prevailing southerly that runs up the coast through most of the year. Maintenance demands on the south-west shacks are higher: more sand to clear, more salt on the cladding, more wind to chase down loose materials. The 11 remaining shacks at Tin City are administered under the Worimi Conservation Lands Plan of Management 2015 and stand on land held by the Worimi Local Aboriginal Land Council since 1 February 2007.