In a little slice of paradise, families work together to survive and thrive
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At Little Garie, what goes in, must come out. That includes rubbish and small children carried in on your shoulders.
That makes durable useful things precious. Looking into the McKenzie family's two-room shack there, most people see an old table, an incomplete dinner set and the flotsam and jetsam of 70 years of beach holidays in a shack bought in 1951, before the land became part of the Royal National Park.
Gary McKenzie outside his shack at Little Garie Beach. His grandmother bought it in 1951, and it has survived a range of threats.