It is rumoured

so where are they?

"storage of much more than vehicles - need I say more"

Yeah! Spill it!

Sorry Truckster and Scubaroo - there's no way that I'm going to be the one to reveal the locations. Much too sensitive for my liking. Suffice to say that they exist and there are a number of people who can confirm that.

>> Much too sensitive for my liking

then whats the problem..

I was more interested in what was in there beside vehicles, rather than where.

Howard, my Great Uncle and other "enterprising" blokes went around for a few years after the war around The Towers collecting all the stuff and flogging it off. The Annabranch had a lot of stuff dumped in it due to it's proximity to the Bredden Airstrip. Mainly aircraft spares, engines and so forth. They went out there and went fishing with trucks and grappling hooks and got most of the stuff out. My Grandfather got a Bren Gun carrier out of one of these exercises and used it to pull the bore drain delver out around Julia Creek for many years. One of the jeeps they got was a paddock bomb until it died in the early 60's. Old plane wrecks were real prise apparently due to the scrap vaule of the alloy. There was definitely a lot of stuff left behind/dumped but I doubt there would be many secret stashes to be had, those blokes after the war were pretty keen to earn a quid and they all had very good local knowledge.

Apparently there was an arbitary dollar value. If it was worth more than the figure, it went home, if it was less, it got dumped. Apparently the valuations were a bit rubbery too depending on how keen the crew was to get home!

OT

Howard, you have got 10 years on me but I also grew up amongst the mullies and cyanide heaps, now long gone, like me.

OT

Hi Steve,
The tunnels and gun at Oliver Hill on Rotto are now a tourist site, and they run public tours through them; the tunnels run for some quite considerable distance and include an underground power house. The old railway leading up to them has also been restored. Quite interesting, but like you, I enjoyed wandering thru them more when they were off-limits. The second big gun there is still closed, but that was also an interesting spot to crawl thru. There was also supposed to be an underground hospital somewhere on the island. Managed to get a look over the u/g bunker where they calculated the gun positioning from sightings. Massive underground room which housed the gunsight computers.
Now there were supposed to be a myriad of tunnels in the Buckland Hill gun site in North Freo. This has now been mostly developed for luxury housing, but the tunnels are supposed to be still there. Apparently the army had no records, so they remain a mystery.
The Belmont bunker is now used by the SES.
Gerry

Also interesting that the guns at Rotto (about 9", I recall), installed by the mid-30's, were old turn-of-century naval guns and were not even within cooee of a match for the Japanese naval guns.
Good thing they were never called on to defend Freo.
Gerry

Aren't computers like that. The bleep was inserted by the computer because it objected to part of the name of Y a m a s h i t a. (Wonder if I fooled the system by putting spaces?)
Harry

Sorry Ken.
but they pushed it all over and built houses on it.. :-)

But I do remember it

Yeah!

Guessed it was most probably the case, however thats 'progress' for you.

Thanks for the reply.

Just read my original post reply and noticed the 'years' have caught up with me.

It was on the left as you drove from Perth to Bunbury and stretched back up into the hills.