Our crew prides itself on providing an "old school tiki environment" the likes of which one can only experience at tiki bars such as the Tonga Room. Our centerpiece artwork, the shipwreck, is a 1961 Okamoto sailboat rescued from the Alameda Estuary 10 minutes prior to being cut up for scrap. She had lost her entire keel, was in great in danger of sinking and most certainly in need of major repairs.

Unfortunately she will never sail again, but she can be admired by thousands at Burning Man and other events.

Members of our crew have been tinkering with fiber, paper mache, and wood tikis since 1996. Other creations for Burning Man have included The Tiki Club in 1999, 2004's Cairo Coconut Club and several years of the Tiki Tiki, a custom tiki bar on an ice cream tricycle frame.

With the passage of Tiki Fest, we are the only remaining major tiki theme camp at Burning Man and it is our duty to carry on the tiki torch. We urge any and all tiki lovers (or tiki lover wannabe's) to join in and support tiki art at Burning Man.

One enters the Shipwreck's lounge by ascending an actual ship's teak stairwell between two massive flaming tiki totems.

Just inside, one is greeted by a coral waterfall and two actual 1960's tiki bars!

In 2009 generous volunteers put in many hours at our Oakland facility creating both our beautiful bamboo stage and a fully mobile tiki bar built upon the frame of a golf cart. Thanks to these much appreciated efforts our camp has become a destination of choice on the Esplanade.

The fully mobile capacity of the Shipwreck Tiki Lounge was torpedoed by the DMV (Burning Man's Department of Mutant Vehicles) in 2008 when they rejected our tikified Cadillac art car tow vehicle as a "decorated vehicle". A planned new tow vehicle based upon frame of a vintage cargo truck received only a lukewarm 1 year conditional approval from the DMV. Not willing to sell out and use purple fur, blinking Christmas lights or whatever else DMV thinks an art car should look like, we made the wise decision not to undertake such a huge and expensive project. Our position is that DMV should allow more leeway to art car artists that have a history of successful past projects. Thanks to the pinheads at DMV the majority of mobile Tiki vehicles at Burning Man will forever consist of stapled reed fencing, blinky Christmas lights and plastic Wal-Mart tikis. Protests should be sent to the DMV.

The DMV's loss is Placement's gain. Since 2008 the Shipwreck Tiki Lounge has made 9:00 @ Esplanade its home. For Burning Man 2010, the Shipwreck Tiki Lounge will again be serving up fine Tiki spirits to all those lost at sea and needing some Shipwreck style.