RAAF Radar Station 208 was a secret World War II military installation located in Wallarah National Park, Catherine Hill Bay, designed to detect enemy aircraft and protect the nearby Rathmines Catalina Base from Japanese attacks during 1942-1943. The station consisted of three concrete bunkers: a northern bunker housing radar receiver equipment, a southern bunker containing transmitter equipment, and a smaller generator bunker with an electricity generator. The site also included gun emplacements and a former ammunition dump. These igloo-style bunkers were strategically positioned to monitor the ocean for incoming enemy aircraft, with the radar equipment allowing early warning of potential attacks on Australian military installations.
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We are up here on the outskirts of Catherine Hill Bay.
Just about to hit some military bunkers.
We're parked on Flowers Road here.
And Bell's got the radar map out for the weather.
We are just about to be bombarded with rain. So, we're going to sit in the car for a little bit and wait until this passes.
Time is now 7:01.
And the dark green bit there, and that weather blue dot, and those dark green clouds are coming over.
So, we'll probably sit in the car for about half an hour.
It's about a kilometer walk in to these military bunkers.
I've got the coordinates. Shouldn't be too hard to find.
And once we get inside one of these bunkers, I'll give you a little bit of story time with Optimus Prime. Google Maps, all they come up as is just bunkers. But, I decided to do a little bit of research and found out exactly what they are.
Got a change of plans. We have made a move from the vehicle here on Flowers Road.
We are now heading into the Munmorah State Conservation Area. We're hoping to get to these bunkers within half an hour and hide within one of them. Hopefully, they're open.
And see out the rain there.
I suppose we could drive up this road and park a little bit closer from what Bell was telling me.
But, it is gravel, and I don't want any stone chips or punctures on my tires, so.
I think parking down there closer to the road So, if there's a track off to the right here, Bell, that's the one we need to take.
It could be this one.
Oh, I'd say it's this one. This one?
You reckon it's this one?
See, when you look when you look on uh the maps, it only shows one road off to the right. Now, there's two here. This one goes right up there.
Isn't that what we want?
What does it say? No unauthorized entry.
You are now entering National Park estate for car, dog, tenting, and motorbikes.
All right, let's head up here.
And we're hoping to come to a T intersection where we turn left.
And that will be Radar Hill fire trail.
And that should take us straight to where we want to go.
I did read some reviews where people were complaining that it takes about seven or eight kilometers walk into these bunkers. But, they must be coming in from some camping site on the other side.
So, I'll try to find something a little bit closer.
And the two explores we're going to do today, the first one is going to be Radar Hill bunkers. The second one will be Shark Hole.
Two separate videos.
And from what I worked out, we can complete both of those, and it's a four kilometer return walk.
So, it's not too bad.
Only problem is, once again, that it's overcast.
And this little Lumix camera of mine does not like cloudy overcast weather.
We're going to try to make these bunkers, Bell.
Otherwise, we're going to get very wet.
It's some pretty heavy rain.
Now, that was really quick. Very surprising.
From where we parked the car down there, it was just a short hill.
And here is the T intersection.
It's a nice open fire trail.
And we're going to head up, and this should come to another T intersection.
Shark Hole would be that way.
And the Radar Hill bunkers should be just on our left once this trail ends. So, nice and quick.
If we were just going to do the bunkers, it's a kilometer in and a kilometer out.
The Shark Hole one, that's meant to be pretty dangerous. There's a ladder that's bolted on the side of a cliff, and then you got to get down there and then traverse down some ropes to get right down the bottom.
So, I'm getting rather excited by having to get go down the ladder and ropes. Bell's going to wait up top for that one. But, let's just concentrate on the bunkers for the time being.
We have the sun trying to poke through the trees over there.
And this is the other intersection, I think.
I'm not too sure.
If it is, we have to head left.
So, we'll head down here.
Let's see if we can see some sort of concrete structure in the distance, which I think we can, Bellzy.
We reached that within 15 minutes of where we parked the car.
A lot of graffiti on it.
And it is open, which means we can shelter here if the rain comes over.
This was a secret military operation in '42, '43 for the Japanese.
As I said, I'll read you out what I find found out about this.
You can drive right up to this if you want.
Oh, it's an igloo style.
Oh, there's another one up there.
Check them out.
You don't often see them this shape.
I don't think I've ever been to bunkers that have been this shape.
There should be three of them.
Lucky you brought a torch.
You ready, Bellzy?
We're going to go in?
Look here. Black it is.
So, this has been painted.
Yeah, it's Oh, no.
That's char from smoke.
Yeah, I got it on my finger.
I thought it was painted.
People have been burning right here.
It's got that uh smoke smell all the way through it.
And here, see, they've been keeping warm over night.
I'll take my photos down here.
Yeah, just take a couple from around.
Don't go up to the other one yet.
Yeah.
Yeah, hopefully the other one won't have as much soot on the side of the uh walls.
>> Ah, yeah. Hang on.
Should be three of them, a smaller one as well. We'll head up there and see if that's open.
God, it's so hard to breathe and talk in there.
I've had to clear my throat several times.
Just trying to look at the size. This seems to be a little bit smaller than this one.
This one is huge.
And this is Radar Hill Bunkers.
I'll get the phone out in a second and read you out exactly what I found out online.
And if anyone disagrees with this intel, take it up with Google AI. I'm just the messenger.
I wasn't here in the '40s, so I would have no idea if it's true or not. Look at that.
There's a fence hitting all down there.
I would say that's where considering in there's a massive drop, that's the ammunition dump, honey.
That's what I'm thinking. There's a sign here.
Do not enter.
Unsafe cliff.
Risk of danger.
This is the stop for all the four-wheel drives.
Looks like a dam.
That could well possibly be ammunition dump down there.
All the rocks that have fallen down.
I just had to change the ISO setting on the camera because the sun has come out.
Looks to be a quarry, maybe.
What an interesting place.
Little bit of rain's falling down now.
Let's head into this bunker, hon.
That's what, sorry?
Yeah, I know. It's coming over. We're going to get hit pretty pretty hard soon.
It's a nice sunrise over the ocean.
Once this clears, cuz only a short rain spell, we should be okay after that.
Let's have a look and see what this one's like inside.
There must have been stuff in here.
And they've burnt the [ __ ] out of it.
These were locked up, I'd say.
People have busted the doors and really let loose.
If there was not so much soot on the walls here, I'd try climb up here, but I'd just get black.
Let's get out on the other side there.
Have a look towards that bunker.
Looks like the wind's picking up as well. Like I said, these were facing directly towards the ocean.
That's what they were for.
Very well hidden.
I've never heard about the Radar Hill Bunkers.
All I did the other day was get on G Maps and started searching for landmarks.
And something came up in this area that said Bunkers.
Clicked on it.
There was a picture of one of them.
And then I thought I'd do a little read up on what they're all about.
And I found out some really interesting intel.
I might see if I can read it quickly here >> [clears throat] >> before the rain comes over.
Okay, this is what I was able to find out.
Radar Hill fire trail located in the Wallarah National Park has the remains of the RAAF radar station 208, a secret military installation used during World War II.
They were designed to detect enemy aircraft and protect the nearby Rathmines at Catalina Base.
The station operated by the Royal Australian Air Force monitored for enemy aircraft, particularly during the threat of Japanese attack in 1942 and '43.
There is a northern bunker, which housed radar receiver equipment.
The southern bunker contained transmitter equipment.
And a generator bunker was the third, smaller bunker, contained the electricity generator.
The site includes the concrete bunkers, gun emplacements, and a former former ammunition dump.
And it is pissing down.
Go.
I don't want to get wet.
Your radar weather map was spot on. What's the time?
You said 7:30. I don't know. You got the map. It is 7:36.
>> Yeah, that's right.
7:36.
So, I've got to wait till this passes now.
I just managed to get the information out before it started raining.
>> Yeah.
Now, let me wipe this screen just in case.
Yeah, hopefully the sun will come out again.
But it's only Oh, you reckon it's probably 16°.
Yeah, especially with that wind.
Yeah, with that wind and rain on you, it's very chilly.
At least this one is a little bit easier to breathe in.
Well, that's why. It's not nice in here.
Yeah, the other one was terrible.
I had so much [ __ ] caught in my throat.
We've got to try to find the third one.
There's three of them, a smaller bunker.
So, we'll walk down that trail a little bit once the rain clears.
See if we can get a hold of the third.
There's not a hell of a lot of graffiti.
It's just that little bit on the side here.
A lot of people must not know where to park.
With the reviews like I said I read, people were saying it's not worth walking the distance. 7 km, I don't know where they're coming in from.
But that was a 10 to 15 minute walk where we parked the vehicle.
We are just lining out this rain in one of the radar hill bunkers and Bill has her weather map up.
And you can see this big thing right here is just about to hit us.
So 8:45, which is probably about an hour from now, and it has cleared and that's where we're going to make a move and see if we can find this third one.
The smaller bunker. There is another trail that heads back up that way behind the first one that we found.
And we'll do a little bit of investigating down that trail where those massive concrete blocks are and see why they blocked it off down there.
Maybe people were living here. I don't No, that looks like wire, chicken wire.
Yeah. I'd say these were locked up and people have got in and burnt whatever they housed. Maybe there was remnants left over.
See this gate would have been at the front there.
Pretty piss poor effort to keep people out. I don't know why you just wouldn't brick it back up again.
If you're scared, if there was um equipment in here and you didn't want people destroying it cuz that's what they all seem to do everywhere we go, just brick it up.
No gates or corrugated iron or plywood or anything like that is going to stop people, but I highly doubt anyone's going to blow up the entry just to see what's in here.
Yeah, that's right.
Yeah.
It's nice and warm in here as well.
I'm trying to think if I've seen these anywhere else, these igloo type formations. Um there's nowhere that I've been that has these.
I think the last time I seen something like this was on TV, McHale's Navy. I'm pretty sure they had, but they not may not have been concrete, they may have been uh corrugated iron.
Did you see the um the reporter what she asked him the other day, the Japanese reporter?
She So she goes to him, "So how come you didn't disclose the attack on Iran? You know, why didn't you tell the the world that you were going to do that?" And he goes, "Well, it's not really such a smart idea letting our enemies know that we're going to attack." And he goes, "I've got a question for you.
How come you didn't let us know about Pearl Harbor?"
"You see what I mean?" he said.
"You never let us know about coming in and attacking our navy ships in Pearl Harbor."
She didn't know what to say. And the poor girl Trump She's a Japanese reporter.
And I don't know, she didn't seem to She didn't seem to know what she was talking about. Why didn't she disclose that you were going to attack Iran?
I don't think I'd be doing my job if we let our enemies know that we're going to go in for a full-blown attack. And then he goes And then he turns it around.
Well, how about you? How about the Japanese? Why didn't you tell us about Pearl Harbor?
He's got a quick wit, I'll give him that much.
No matter what anyone asks him, he's always got a comeback.
Every day he's tweeting around.
You surrender this or you surrender that or we'll blow you to smithereens.
It's great reading.
I just noticed up in here may have been some sort of door here.
But we do have brackets for what possibly could have been a ladder.
And a couple of brackets here, I would say people were looking out from there.
There's nowhere I could climb here that I could see out there and get Bill to take a picture. Even if I was to jump up on this bit here, it's still a fair way down from that up there.
Yeah, that's the problem getting wet. It would've been great if that ladder was still intact.
May have been some sort of light fixture up there.
Something here as well, maybe another ladder here.
Very interesting.
We did find one date.
When we arrived here, it looks to be 2021.
This one here.
2 0 2 1.
Apart from that.
And that looks like the original paint.
You think about it.
Yeah, I'd say that would be Whatever graffiti was here seems to have burnt off when someone set fire to this bunker.
So if my intel is correct, this here is the northern bunker that we're hiding in.
The northern bunker housed radar receiver equipment.
This one down here being the southern bunker, that one contained transmitter equipment.
Now the generator bunker was a third smaller one contained the electricity generator.
We yet to find that, but Bill has found some gun emplacements, she thinks.
I'd say for anti-aircraft down here.
There was something here.
Yeah, they were guns.
Yeah, here as well. This would've been for Yeah, I know. Right over the water.
Yeah, these would've been guns here.
It's very cliffy.
Wow, what a drop.
People have been dumping [ __ ] off here.
Yeah, I'd say that was a quarry.
Looking at the mountain on the other side there.
Jeez, how quickly the weather changes.
Wasn't all that long ago I was filming the sunrise.
Look at it now.
There's water down there. I wonder if that's washed in or they've thrown it from down here or from up here.
That's stairs going to something here.
All right.
Japanese were coming over that ocean there.
They would've been detected and the Rathmines Catalina base would've been notified.
And they would've been shot out of the sky.
There is a track leading up there.
That may be where the third one is.
The only downside for today is that it's overcast again.
Every single week we seem to explore is overcast weather. I would love a sunny day. The pictures and the video would be so much better.
But unfortunately, mother nature once again, she controls what I film in and what I photograph in.
Looks like people have climbed up possibly to the top here. They've got like a like a strap where they pull themselves up.
See if I can get up there later.
No, it's not tied onto anything.
It looked to be a tree on the first one possibly.
But that's slippery.
Going to hurt yourself coming there.
That strap was tied onto something, maybe.
See on the other side see if there's any trees.
No.
No way without hurting yourself.
You think we'll see the sun again, hon?
Briefly before another front comes up.
Yeah.
Well, I was just thinking um The rain has cleared.
And Bell has made her move down this fire trail to see if we can locate the generator bunker.
Danger first blood dummy.
And the sun might be back out over the ocean there.
No, there's one out there.
No, it's far.
Find them.
They'll find you.
I wouldn't think it's down this way.
But considering we're here have a bit of a look.
That's better. It's warming me up.
It is cold, let me tell you.
I really should start checking before I leave Northern Beaches to head up here every month what the weather is going to be like.
See, I left yesterday at 30°. I didn't realize that today it was going to be 14 to 18.
Now, it's still not cold.
It's a bit of a shock. See, someone's cut the fence here to getting prior to you walking.
I don't know how far down I can go before the fence peters out.
Is there anything down here, Bell?
I wouldn't think it's much further.
If there's nothing here, we'll head up.
Actually, let's go down as far as this fence.
Did you have a look?
Is it a big drop?
Oh, actually, so I could have walked down the fence.
Let's just go down this trail as far as this fence goes. Actually, can we walk on that side?
Yeah, let's try.
Let's try on this side.
Looks all right. We're a fair way back from the bank embankment here.
Okay, so this is where the water starts now.
Okay.
All right, you come down on the track, yeah, because maybe there's no more holes in the fences, so we're only going to only have to come back again.
Barb wire, the original fence was here before they put up the other fence.
And that's it, it stops here.
We might be able to climb around.
No.
And it's a big drop, it looks like.
Or does it keep on going? Oh, it keeps on going.
Oh, look at that.
They've put another sign here as well.
It says danger keep out, similar to the one that we had back up there that was covered up, which I didn't take a picture of.
Let's see what it says.
Do not enter.
Unsafe cliff, risk of danger.
And the fence I think might end here. I've said that a couple of times, but I'm pretty sure I'm right now.
Which it does.
So, there you go. You can actually come down on the inside of the fence.
And it's not so steep here in this natural bush land again. So, whatever if that was a quarry, it's in that section there.
There's nothing here. And there's no other bunker down here.
It might have been a quarry ammunition dump.
Just guessing.
See if I can find this trail that Bell's on.
Hey, Bell.
Can you come down over where I am?
Come over here through the bush here.
Come down a little bit further, not behind the fence. You'll see here where I am.
Just get a picture of uh the sign here, the do not enter sign.
We have concluded that there's nothing down that way once that fence ends.
All that's got to do with whatever was down here, whether it be an old quarry or the ammunition dump. You can see another trail comes in to the water from there.
I'm going to exit this fence line through this gaping hole.
And that generator bunker would have to be, I'd say, near the northern and southern ones up here for us to power the equipment, the transmitters and the receivers.
You would think it'd be close by. That is if it's still standing.
May not be there.
Definitely a place worth coming to if you're like me and enjoy visiting all this World War II history. I've been to a lot of places.
Fort Drummond down there in Wollongong.
And then the Middle Head fortifications, the gun emplacements up there in Lithgow and the ones that we did up at Wangi.
La Perouse.
Cape Banks.
There's hundreds of them.
Hill 60.
Still haven't done a really clear video of Hill 60. We'll have to go down there sometime.
Just going to capture some more video where these gun emplacements were now that the sun's out.
See the difference in quality.
Might be able to see a little bit better down on the ground here.
Off the cliff.
>> They drew first blood not me.
You know there's one that I turn.
You know where they are.
Find them.
Or else I'll find you.
What what?
What do you want?
And every other guy looking what we have here is built with guts and take the person he had.
What?
We had to force you to love us as much as we love it.
I hope everyone is ready for 2027 if you're a Rambo fan like I am.
Filming has completed for the prequels of the Rambo franchise. We will get to see a young John J. Rambo and how he became the war machine.
No doubt covering his time in the Baker team.
There's a whole bunch of characters.
If you go back to playlists 2018 what's that? Six eight years ago.
Eight years ago I did an unveiling a review of all my Rambo knives. One of the very first people in 10 years since the John Rambo film came out in 2008 to do anything like that.
And then after that video it was released there was a surge.
And in that footage I mentioned that I don't want to see any more Sylvester Stallone Rambo films. I want to see prequels.
I want to see what the Baker team is all about.
And eight years later or nine years later if it comes out next year my wish will come true.
So keep an eye out for that one.
Bell has already headed up.
Last little look here at the northern bunker.
And I think she headed up that track there.
We actually came down that one.
All right, let's get up and see if we can find that other one because we're going to have to stop this second video.
So a lot of trees have grown in front of this one.
So you've got a tree growing up beside it.
If you climb up that first little bit you might be able to get up to the top of it.
It's just that trying to navigate that first bit.
Okay, so they blocked this off with looks like tin or sheet metal.
I don't know where Bell's gone.
So this is where we came in from where we have to exit.
You can see the two there.
So the southern and the northern.
Smaller bunker and there's something here.
Probably another gun emplacement.
Nah.
I don't know what they were. Is that brackets coming out of those big concrete blocks? There's another one there.
Bell must have headed down here.
Is there anything down there, Bell?
Huh?
Is there anything down there?
Say again?
No bunkers.
Don't know where the third smaller one would be.
What's down here? Just like a turning circle?
The track down?
Yeah, that could be.
Let's just go back up to this bunker. I just want to have a scout around see if we can find the other one otherwise Huh?
Possibly. I thought we have to go down the other track. We'll go down the other track just to be sure.
So I managed to get up on top of the southern bunker.
Just climbed up the tree there.
Bell's down here taking a few pictures.
We can't come this far and not try to climb up.
As for the generator bunker don't know. Might be hidden in the bush.
And may be gone all together.
I'm seeing if we can get a few pics from the other side too with the door probably look better.
This side's probably the shot.
Just be mindful if you come up here and you head to this one it's very hard to breathe inside.
That's it fellas and ladies. Thanks for joining us.
Really interesting morning out here from radar hill bunkers.
We're going to wind it up until we see you again on the next adventure or explore from Bellzy and myself.
Adios.
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