Victor Harbor's seaside architecture #2

Prior to the Covid-19 lockdown  Kayla and I went on an early morning  poodlewalk   around  the streets that border the estuary, lagoon  and mouth of the Hindmarsh River. This is an older,  residential part of Victor Harbor  and it overlooks  the railway line to the river port town of Goolwa, the beach  and Encounter Bay. The houses are on a hill and their  view of Encounter Bay includes Granite Island. 

An early part  of the walk on this occasion was  the western part of the suburb of Hayborough. This is a well established part of Victor Harbor with many of the houses tucked away amongst the bush overlooking the Hindmarsh estuary and so difficult to photograph.  Privacy is everything for the old Adelaide money.   Fortunately, this particular house  is not tucked away: 

Another part of  our  walk was  along Bridge Terrace in Victor Harbor that   is just west of the mouth of  Hindmarsh River  This residential part of Victor Harbor overlooks a reserve and Encounter Bay, and runs from the the Granite Island causeway  to Bridge PoInt, which   overlooks the estuary and mouth of the Hindmarsh River

The purpose of the poodlewalk was to have a break from both  walking the back country roads  and  photographing the coastal rocks. landscape.  I also wanted  to  photograph some of  the residential  architecture  before some of these fine,   old buildings are pulled down to make way for the newer double storey  McMansion style homes.  

Victor Harbor is  rapidly changing as it expands, and these spacious  kind of houses, big blocks  and their location are seen as prime real estate that they are  still tightly held. Harcourts are now marketing Victor Harbor's real estate nationally: the selling points are  lifestyle, affordability and being close to a capital city. 

Below  is another example of the older suburban architecture along Bridge Terrace. This gives a sense of how older Victor Harbor   had spacious, well cared for  gardens. The double storey  McMansions  do away with the garden--the house now takes up the most of the block apart from a small strip of lawn  in the front.    

This kind of architecture was built for people who had decided to make a life in Victor Harbor--to live there permanently---as opposed to living in Adelaide and having  a weekend/holiday house at Victor Harbor.