blakjak wrote:chrisyelroy wrote:I've done North Head hahaha but still i disagree as there are a few La Pa bunkers that blow my mind. The graff is crap in all of them but nonetheless, some fantastic structures.
You could include the whole of La pa & Malabar & every other bunker in Sydney except North Head & they still wouldn't add up to what's on offer at Middle Head, but that is just my opinion.
chrisyelroy wrote:Have you been to the bunker where you have to abseil 20m to get into? It's fairly close to the helipad but quite unknown. Some sections of it havent been tagged and there is a mining shaft that goes around 50m in a downslope underground. That structure alone is amazing, and i explained in another forum i drowned there...anyway, some sections of it is unexplored. Just before I drowned i saw another section on the other side of the submerged bit but haven't had the balls to go back and do it yet.
Yeah no offense, but I used to smoke cones there in the mid 1980s, before the Cave Clan, urbex & all that stuff was even invented. Anyway, the original (CC) urbex discoverer (Predator) of that bunker named it 'The Squeeze' (in 1991), that is because originally you needed to squeeze through the doorway to get in. That is officially the No1 9.2 inch coastal defense gun emplacement of the (former) Banks Battery, built in 1942. It has some short underground sections, which include the pump room (first room on right of corridor), & the ammo magazine (Powder room, & shell store with rotting hoist). The other emplacement just south of there was the No2 gun (very similar in design except pump room is off to the left & there is a bend in the tunnel), was named Pistol Range by Predator, because of the nearby shooting facility (derr). The tower on the hill behind them was the Forward Observation Post (lower level), & main searchlight station (upper level), & engine room in basement. Behind them about 100m, is the (sort-of) extensive underground plotting room. The first-aid station was that semi-submerged room covered with bushes between the 2 gun emplacements, very near to the entry of the No2 gun emplacement's tunnel entry (Pistol Range).
This 'mine' you talk of was not a mine at all, it was actually the battery engine room, where there was once a diesel (former submarine) engine hooked up to a generator that provided electrical power (mainly) for the hydraulic pumps that ran all the guns & other machinery there. The main entry to this room was once that light blue/grey blockhouse you pass to get to the bunkers from the car-park, but that is now capped off & the bottom of the shaft has debris blocking the gate (I will post a pic later). The alternate entry (your so called 'mine'), in the tunnels of No1 gun, was a shaft cut at 45 degrees down through rock, & it is still accessible (if you can get in), but the lower room is almost always flooded. It is 22m below surface level, not 50m.
Till a year or 2 ago, you could get into this bunker via the main entry door, but this was backfilled (by bulldozer) & the only way in now is via that emergency shaft which is about 4m deep (not 20m), if the bars haven't been repaired by now. In fact, the whole bunker is only 14m below surface level at the deepest point (not including the engine room), & that is at the ammo room directly below the former gun emplacement.
Also, & you can take this as you like, but apparently that lower room was once used to store radioactive materials, & I only found that out after I went there about 20 times
You can read more about this place in a book called We Stood And waited. It was written by a soldier who served in Fortress Sydney during WW2.
chrisyelroy wrote:Also, I meant the La Pa area...this includes Malabar Bunker which is only .5 or 1km away from this
which in my opinion are better than NH as it's fairly large, interesting, historic and recently someone busted the gate which leads to a freaky 40m tunnel filled with bats. Which. Is. Sikk
They are not 500m or 1km away, the bunkers at La Pa & the ones at Malabar are about 3kms apart in a straight line. But as you know, in all reality you have to drive for 5kms & walk for another 2kms to get from 1 to the other (if you know any other practical way please let me know). Not withstanding that, Malabar & La Perouse are different suburbs.
We have our yearly awards night at Malabar bunkers, and again, in my opinion they are very nice bunkers & I rate them highly, but you are not seriously trying to compare them with North Head? One has a 100m long burnt out tunnel full of dirt & graff (Malabar) & bats, the other has a 600m long pristine tunnel like it was during WW2 with a natural stream running through it. One has rusted & burnt out metal everywhere & no original fittings, the other has all it's original fittings & working shell hoists. The plotting room at La Pa is practically demolished, the one at NH is like it was the day it was abandoned in the 1960s. I could go on & on, but I think we are talking about 2 different North Heads.
chrisyelroy wrote:Also if we have time we could do the old asylum/hospital there....I've found some freaky documents there and some cool stuff AND its about to be demolished :/
Yep, they left plenty of personal papers there, very careless of them, but then again most of the subjects are long dead by now.
Bro, you need a new tape measure or something, all your measurements are way out. I can just imagine what you tell the girls about your d1ck size.
I'm really paranoid of deep water or places near the ocean. You've been in so many bunkers. 
