During the school holidays a funfair or amusement park is set up near the causeway to Granite Island. It is a tiny public space for Girder Family Amusements: a space between the holding pens for the horse drawn carriage to the Granite Island Recreation Park and the barbecue area in the Soldiers Memorial Gardens.
But a seaside town must have a funfair with its ferris wheel, dodgem cars, inflatable double slides etc etc. It is tradition--just like the horse drawn carriage to Granite Island and the Cockle train to Goolwa. There for the family day tourists.
The economy of Victor Harbor is increasingly relying on the tourism dollar. The Council is re designing the town --renewing the town precinct-- in order to make it more attractive to the day tourists from Adelaide. The Council resisted setting up the Granite Island Sculpture Park until the state government stepped in to help Sculptures by the Sea get the Granite Island Sculpture Encounters off the ground.
