Ocean View Road

A view through a gap in the hoardings, September 2017

A view of the site’s progress through a small gap in the hoardings around the site. We can see a poured and set concrete floor, at street level, and scaffolding and timber beams supporting the first floor, however far along the first floor is.

Other than the hoardings and the towering crane lifting fresh materials into the site, there’s nothing to be seen of what’s going on on this building site. It will have to rise up to the level of its second floor before we can see it. This is a real mystery site.

Ocean View Road site from afar, September 2017

From The Esplanade, all that’s visible of the Ocean View Road site is its crane and how high over Ettalong that crane towers. The hill in the background is Blackwall Mountain.

The big white building is, at the moment, the biggest and tallest building in Ettalong. The red roofed building to the right of the crane is the second biggest and tallest building in Ettalong, at the moment.

Where is Ettalong in relation to Gosford? September 2017

Ettalong is 20 – 25 minutes drive from Gosford. It’s on the shores of Brisbane Water, as is Gosford.

That blue dot just below the word Ettalong is the building site.

Ettalong is on the shores of Brisbane Water and not far from Gosford itself. It's within the old Gosford City Council area and a short ferry ride from Palm Beach and Barrenjoey Head. Palm Beach and Barrenjoey Head are on the northern beaches of Sydney and the Barrenjoey Head lighthouse shines at night. You can see it shining and turning from the beach carpark at the southern end, the Sydney end, of Trafalgar Avenue.

When this building site is finished, it will be 4 or 5 storeys tall and will have views straight down south, across the water, from Ettalong Beach to Lion Island and Pittwater. Palm Beach and Barrenjoey Head are at the northern end of Pittwater.


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Dusk at Ettalong 2017

On the horizon, on the left, we can see Box Head, after which the Box Head surf company was named. On the right, we can see Barrenjoey Head and, very faintly, the lighthouse on it. The fainter bit of land, to the left of Barrenjoey Head, looks to me like Bangalley Head in the Sydney suburb of Avalon Beach.


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