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Two women sit on a rock wall with a man in front of a beach cabin.
A beach cabin licenced by the Holloway family in Sydney's Royal National Park(ABC News: Sophie Kesteven)
A sign shows the Royal Coast track and points to Era beach.
The pathway to Era in Sydney's Royal National Park.(ABC News: Sophie Kesteven)
Foamy white waves roll onto a secluded beach surrounded by green hills and cliffs.
The coastal view at Era in Sydney's Royal National Park.(ABC News: Sophie Kesteven)

A close up of Georgia Holloway smiling as she stands in her family's cabin.
Georgia Holloway's family licences a cabin in Era.(ABC News: Sophie Kesteven)
Two girls wearing dresses and hats stand with their kneeling dad in front of a beach.
Georgia Holloway with her sister and dad at Era in earlier days.(Supplied: Georgia Holloway)

Three women and two men sit on foldable chairs at the front of a pebbled cabin.
The Holloway family sit and talk at their cabin in Era.(ABC News: Sophie Kesteven)
A kettle sits on a stove in a cabin.
The Holloway cabin is a mix of old and new technology.(ABC News: Sophie Kesteven)
A painting hangs on the wall inside a shack at Era.
A drawing of the Era coastline hangs on the wall inside the Holloway's cabin.(ABC News: Sophie Kesteven)

Corrugated iron hut at Fremantle smelters camp, 1953
Corrugated iron hut at Fremantle smelters camp, 1953(Supplied: National Library of Australia/Trove)
A weatherboard shack in Hellyer Beach in north-west Tasmania in the 1980s.
A weatherboard shack in Hellyer Beach in north-west Tasmania in the 1980s.(Supplied: Lyn Best)

A beach hut assembled with bark and other leftover supplies.
The first owners of the beach shacks along Era built them out of bark and scrap.(Supplied: Royal National Park Coastal Cabins Protection League)

A solar panel lined beach shack connected to a rain water tank overlooks an empty beach.
The beach shacks at Sydney's Royal National Park are heritage listed.(Supplied: Royal National Park Coastal Cabins Protection League)

A small cabin in the hills
John Burn's cabin in Little Garie.(Supplied: John Burn)
John's shirtless grandfather smokes a pipe while standing next to a girl holding a fishing line.
John's grandfather and mother would regularly go fishing in Little Garie.(Supplied: John Burn)

A black and white photo of a family in front of a beach shack in 1932.
A poor family living at an unemployed camp in La Perouse, NSW in 1932.(Supplied: State Library of NSW)

A black and white photo of a hut made from corrugated iron.
A hut in an unemployment camp at 'Happy Valley' in the 1930s.(Supplied: State Library of NSW)

The federal government nominated the Murujuga cultural landscape for UNESCO's World Heritage List in 2023.
The federal government nominated the Murujuga cultural landscape for UNESCO's World Heritage List in 2023.(ABC News: Brendan Esposito)
The Burrup Peninsula is home to some of the oldest known rock art in the world.
The Burrup Peninsula is home to some of the oldest known rock art in the world.(ABC News: Brendan Esposito)

The remnants of a wooden structure in the sand.
Midden and remnants of a wooden structure at Yindayin rock shelter.(Supplied: Anna Clark)

A pastel blue looking home with a tin roof.
The owner of this beach shack in Noosa North Shore enjoyed the simplicity of it.(Instagram: @beachshacksofaustralia)
A pastel pink beach shack with a blue trim.
A stylish beach shack in Noosaville.(Instagram: @beachshacksofaustralia)

Georgia and her sister sit on a beach seat look out the window to the ocean below.
Georgia and her sister have been coming to their family beach shack in Era since they were children.(ABC News: Sophie Kesteven)

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