Outback film-maker Alby Mangels lists shed contents of his Coorong, SA property
The legendary outback World Safari filmmaker Alby Mangels has yet to sell his 110 hectare Meningie, South Australia retreat.
The Princes Highway property, which sits on the Coorong lagoon eco-system, was listed with $1.2 million hopes in April last year, but is now listed through Nicolette van Wijngaarden at Unique Estates at $1 million plus.
But in the meantime his shed contents are listed for 19 June MGS auction - full of travel and movie memorabilia, sailing and navigation equipment, and movie making equipment.
There's a large selection of carved wooden and stone statuettes as presented by Kalahari Bushmen, Massai, Zulu, Indonesian, Samoan, New Guinea, South American tribes people, tapa cloth, and African dyed prints.
His 2010 documentary, Call of the Coorong was done on the property.
Alby Mangels has owned the three bedroom house with light plane airstrip on the property for more than two decades.
He built the two storey home from mostly recycled stone, timber and iron materials in the mid-1990s including the old wool stores in Port Adelaide.
Known for his World Safari adventure conservation travel documentaries in the 1970s and 1980s, Mangels listed the property because he is contemplating a move closer to Adelaide.
The Netherlands-born Mangels, who also divides his time between the Philippines, Micronesia and the South American nation of Suriname, says the memorabilia was sitting in the shed doing nothing.
The proceeds will go to his preferred current charity, to help build an orphanage for the children of the typhoon-stricken Philippine city of Tacloban.
Unique Estates noted an adjoining 600 hectare property to the north was also available (same owner) by separate negotiation, currently being used as a working Dorpa stud.
