Seal Rocks SHACK by Nathan Gibson Judd Architect • MID NORTH COAST, NSW •

This new home is a respectful and restrained homage to the Australian beach shack, forming a robust “stage set” for many holidays to unfold on.

Words by Micky Pinkerton Photography by Brett Boardman

Seal Rocks is a small coastal settlement on the mid north coast of New South Wales, where a nineteenth-century lighthouse stands watch over the vast Pacific Ocean and the few other elements of the village: two streets, a shop and a caravan park. There’s only one winding way in, and between the scores of potholes you’ll find quite a bit of road graffiti. Among the peace signs and love hearts fading on the bitumen you can also make out “The Last Frontier” and “Save Seal Rocks.” These symbols and slogans leave you with no doubt that you are about to enter a world that the local community has fought hard to protect. Needless to say it’s an unpretentious place, with a humble streetscape that backs onto scrubby subtropical jungle. The owners…

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